Food & Drinks

Make: healthy spinach pancakes with avocado

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the foodies of online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our chefs serve you: healthy spinach pancakes with avocado.

Breakfasting with pancakes is about the best thing there is. But how do you make it a bit nutritious and healthy as well? The answer lies in these beautiful green spinach pancakes from Jamie Oliver.

Ingredients
1 ripe avocado

350 g differently colored
ripe cherry tomatoes
100 g baby spinach
3 spring onions
½ bunch of fresh coriander (15 g)
1 lime
extra virgin olive oil
1 egg yolk from a large egg
1 cup self-raising flour
1 cup semi-skimmed milk
olive oil
300 g cottage cheese
hot chili sauce

Here's how to make the spinach pancakes

Halve, peel and pit the avocado, and cut it into thin slices. Cut the cherry tomatoes into quarters and place them with the avocado slices and a quarter of the spinach in a salad bowl.
Clean the spring onions, slice them into thin rings, sprinkle them together with the picked coriander leaves into the bowl and squeeze the lime over it. Add 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil, add sea salt and black pepper to taste, and set aside.
Break the egg into a blender, add the flour, the milk, the rest of the spinach and a pinch of sea salt and black pepper and blend until smooth.
Place a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat, grease it with a little olive oil, pour in a thin layer of batter and tilt the pan to let it spread over the entire surface.
Cook the pancakes for only 2 minutes on one side, or until the bottom is golden brown, and stack them on a plate.
Top the pancakes with dollops of cottage cheese, the avocado salad and a few splashes of chili sauce. Delicious with lime wedges to squeeze over and, if you like, a fried egg.
Instead of spinach, you can also use a mix of fresh herbs, such as parsley, mint, basil or tarragon – whatever you like!

Title: Veg
Author: Jamie Oliver
Publisher: Kosmos Publishers
Price: €29.99