11/7/13 Chicken Feet & Clam Chowdah Ebelskiver: It's Danish for Delicious - Chicken Feet & Clam Chowdah Search here.. Ebelskiver: It’s Danish for Delicious By Courtney Vien, October 9, 2013, In Baking, Sweets 8-9 dozen (in takoyaki pan) Servings ~ 10 min. to make batter, 5 min. to bake a batch Home » Baking » Ebelskiver: It’s Danish for Delicious ABOUT US We are neither chefs nor hardcore food critics. We are just an ordinary couple in the Triangle area in North Carolina who love eating and cooking good food. This blog follows us on our adventure through the culinary cosmos as we make and sample dishes from around the world. Enter Email GO RECENT POSTS Ebe l skive r. Wasn’t that one of the guys who got Review: Benelux Café: A European Neighborhood Café in Downtown Raleigh eaten by Grendel in Beowulf? So I, not being of Scandinavian heritage, thought when I came across 3 large eggs that unfamiliar term while searching for a takoyaki pan 2 tablespoons granulated sugar online. A quick bit of Googling revealed that ebelskiver 3 cups buttermilk Bit’s Bites: Solid Food Reviews By Babies, For Babies was not an ill-fated Nordic warrior, nor an obscure 1 teaspoon vanilla Olympic sport that only Swedes have ever medaled in, Tilapia with Lemon Butter: A Quick, Delicious Dinner 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons but a term for small spherical pancakes served with vegetable or canola oil jam and powdered sugar. 3 cups flour Ebelskiver looked cute, I thought, rather like little toasty planetoids. When I found out you could fill them with 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda Ebelskiver: It’s Danish for Delicious Takoyaki: Street-Food Delight Comes Home TAGS 1/2 teaspoon baking powder Nutella—when I get put in charge of the USDA, I’m 1/2 teaspoon salt declaring Nutella a food group—I was intrigued. And, Recipe from Mel's Kitchen Cafe when I saw I could use them as additional justification for buying a takoyaki pan (“See, it’s not just something american baking bread breakfast british broccoli cast iron Chapel Hill chinese we’ll use once a year. We can make ebelskiver in it, too! It’s multi-functional!”), I knew I had to cooking desserts dining out try them. dinner dumplings durham Dutch oven www.john-zhu.com/chickenfeet/ebleskiver-danish-delicious/ eating out equipment 1/3 11/7/13 Chicken Feet & Clam Chowdah Ebelskiver: It's Danish for Delicious - Chicken Feet & Clam Chowdah food books food trucks german indian hospital italian sweets A takoyaki pan. The indentations are lunch middle east North Carolina southern ice cream Lodge matters of taste recipe french portuguese reviews spanish thai misc quick eats seafood slider supertaster Triangle vegetables smaller than those in a standard ebelskiver pan, but they still work. MY PHOTOSTREAM Takoyaki are a Japanese street food. The word takoyaki literally means “octopus balls,” and that’s just what they are: ball-shaped fritters made in a special pan that has 12 hemispherical indentations. To bake them, you pour batter into the indentations, pop a bit of octopus in each one, wait for them to firm up, then flip them with a chopstick so they cook on the other side and form little spheres. META Site Admin Log out Ebelskiver are a sweet take on the same idea. They taste like a cross between donut holes and piping-hot beignets. Like their Japanese cousins, they’re a textural and tactile delight, their Entries RSS lovely toothsome dough giving way to a molten center. And, as is also the case with takoyaki, Comments RSS once you’ve inhaled one batch, you’re ready for another. Fortunately, they’re quick and e asy to make , taking only about five minutes to bake. They’re an ideal immediate-gratification food, WordPress.org perfect for a lazy Sunday morning or a late night snack while watching movies. Our homemade ebelskiver. Legend has it that Vikin gs in ve n te d e be l skive r while cooking pancakes on their dented shields. So maybe that Beowulf guess wasn’t that far off after all. Five Nerdy Facts About Ebelskiver 1. The word ebelskiver means “apple slices,” the original ingredient used to fill these fritters. 2. Ebelskiver is pronounced “ay-blah-skee-wah.” When using this pronunciation, it is customary to attempt the accent of the Swedish Chef. 3. You can foodie them up. This cookbook has recipes for sticky toffee, salted caramel, fig and prosciutto, and mushroom and pancetta ebelskiver. Savory ebelskiver would make excellent party hors d’oeuvres. 4. The singular of ebelskiver is ebelskive. If you want to be precise, you can spell ebelskiver with an ash: æbleskiver. 5. Ebelskiver pans were once sold on TV as “Pancake Puff” pans. baking slider www.john-zhu.com/chickenfeet/ebleskiver-danish-delicious/ 2/3 11/7/13 Chicken Feet & Clam Chowdah Ebelskiver: It's Danish for Delicious - Chicken Feet & Clam Chowdah ABOUT THE AUTHOR: COURTNEY VIEN Courtney Vien is a freelance writer and editor based in Durham, NC. She enjoys making food the hard way, trying new restaurants, and foraging for honeysuckle. Visit her portfolio at courtneyvien.com RELATED POSTS Review: Benelux Café: A European Bit’s Bites: Solid Food Reviews By Tilapia with Lemon Butter: A Quick, Neighborhood Café in Downtown Babies, For Babies Delicious Dinner Raleigh In Matters of Taste, Reviews On September 28, 2013 In Cooking In Dining Out, Reviews, Sweets On October 16, 2013 On September 26, 2013 COMMENTS Login There are no comments posted yet. Be the first one! POST A NEW COMMENT Enter text right here! 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