Pannukakku VS Lettu
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Author: Suvi Korhonen Status: published Published: May 24,2007 license cc-by-nc tags: dessert, recipe, cooking, jam, sugar, finland, pancake, raspberry, 2007, finnish, hillo, pannari, pannukakku, lettu, ohukainen,
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Share on TwitterLeft: Pannukakku
Right: Lettu aka ohukainen with sugar & raspberry jam
Both are easy & fast Finnish everyday desserts, made with the same recipe. The difference is that the other is baked in the oven and the other is fried on the pan. But the thick oven-made one is called pannukakku (pan cake) whereas lettu looks more like American pancakes or French crepes. This could run counterintuitive (?) to americans.
Recipe (makes about 10 lettus):
5 dl milk
2 eggs
2,5 dl wheat flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
25 grams melted butter (or oil or margarin)
butter/margarin/oil for oiling the pan
Batter yolks and whites in a bowl, add milk & mix. Add dry ingredients and butter/margarin/oil last. Let the batter stand for half an hour so that the flour has time to swell (not much, but it does).
Heat the pan like when frying eggs and melt a bit of butter or oil on the pan to before pouring batter on the pan. When the batter is solid, turn the pancake.
Serve with jam, icecream, whipped cream, maple syrup (not very Finnish) and/or sugar. You can also create summer lunch by using lettus like tortillas and filling them with sourcream, onion & salmon or cheese and ham, for instance.
I usually don't use any spesific recipe, just mix about right amount of ingredients.
I found out last summer that my distant reatives from Alaska knew pannukakku and called it "Finnish pancake". Swedes stole the meatballs, but atleast finns are credited with some recipe. :) The great thing about pannukakku is that nobody's occupied all night with flipping the pancakes over in the pan. You can just leave it in the oven for half an hour and it's done.
