Ingredients
Scotch pancakes
250g self-raising flour
125g caster sugar
2 beaten eggs
Pinch of salt
Milk to mix
Borderfields Rapeseed Oil
Cinnamon Roasted Pears
200g pears – peeled and diced – approximately 3cm cubes
Pinch of ground cinnamon
20ml Borderfields Rapeseed Oil
Lemon – juice and finally grated zest
100g mascarpone cheese
Pinch of icing sugar
1/2 vanilla pod – seeds only
Fresh mint
Method
Scotch Pancakes
- Mix the flour, salt and sugar together, add the beaten eggs and whisk to a paste.
- Add the milk to make a thick batter, add a tbsp. of rapeseed oil and whisk in.
- Heat a non-stick pan and brush with a little rapeseed oil. Drop a spoonful of batter into the pan keeping spaced out. Do as many spoonful’s as the pan can take
- Cook on one side until it browns. When it starts to rise up and bubble, turn them over and bake on the other side.
- When cooked – place on a clean tea-towel, cover them over until the next batch is ready.
Cinnamon Roasted Pears
- In a hot non-stick pan add the rapeseed oil, sauté the pears for approximately 10 seconds, add the ground cinnamon and cook for a further 10 seconds, add a few drops of lemon and little finely grated lemon zest.
- Add the mascarpone cheese into a bowl and beat in the vanilla seeds, pinch of icing sugar and a little lemon juice to taste.
- To finish, spoon the pears on top of the pancakes and drizzle a little of the cooking juices over, spoon a little of the vanilla mascarpone on top of the pears and finish with a little fresh mint.