Brunch Oven Pancake

This delightful brunch dish is perfect for a holiday weekend. It is easy to blend up the batter while the oven and cooking dish are heating up. Adding the batter to the hot dish starts the cooking quickly and helps it rise. While sometimes called a German or Dutch (after a German word “Deutsch”) pancake, this dish is similar to a Yorkshire pudding. Here in America it is served as a breakfast dish with powdered sugar, syrup and maybe berries or other fruit. In England, Yorkshire pudding is a similar dish with the same core ingredients: egg, flour, milk. Yorkshire pudding was often served with thick gravy as a first course, as the meat drippings were used to grease the pan. This is my BRUNCH version of this dish which has sliced cinnamon apples, provolone cheese and crumbled sausage.  Of course add any variety of ingredients you have on hand (banana slices and peanut butter) or flavors your family loves (green chili and cheddar cheese), to make this a holiday brunch favorite for your bunch.

Ingredients

6 whole Eggs

1 cup Milk (use almond milk or other dairy alternative if dairy sensitive)

1 cup Gluten-free Flour

¼ tsp. Baking soda

¼ tsp. Baking powder

¼ tsp. Salt

¼ tsp. Nutmeg

¼.tsp. Cinnamon

1/3 cup Butter (or oil for dairy alternative)

Instructions

1.      Set oven to 400 degrees and start heating along with an oven proof baking dish. Either a large iron skillet or Pyrex glass dish (9” X 13”) work great

2.      Crack 6 eggs into a bowl. Remove any eggshell that got into the bowl during cracking. Pour eggs from bowl into a blender and thoroughly blend together

3.      Add in the milk and blend together with one or two pluses

4.      In small bowl combine the next 6 “dry” ingredients

5.      Remove the baking dish and add the butter or oil. Put dish back in oven just long enough to melt or heat the oil. This will only take a quick minute, so be careful not to let it burn

6.      Once the butter is melted (or oil is hot), pull out the dish and swirl the batter as you pour it into the dish. Batter should fill the whole dish

7.      Place dish back in oven and bake for 25-30 min.

8.      Oven pancake will appear slightly dry with crusty edges when done

Note: Mix all the ingredients a blender or bowl with hand mixer or immersion blender starting with the wet ingredients (eggs and milk) and then adding in the dry ingredients.

Brunch Filling

2-3 Green apples

4-6 Provolone cheese slices

½ Crumbled cooked Sausage.

Apple filling

1.      Core and cut up 2-3 green apples ¼ inch slices. See note.

2.      Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and mix thoroughly

3.      Let sit for an hour or longer to blend the flavors together

Note:  If you have access to an apple peeler, slicer, corer gadget, your apple pieces will come out perfectly

To Assemble

1.      Slice apples and blend with cinnamon sugar one day prior if possible.

2.      Make the oven pancake.

3.      While pancake is baking cook sausage or if sausage is precooked, crumble and measure out the amount you want to use

4.      Count out the cheese slices

5.      When oven pancake comes out of the oven, layer with apples, cheese, sausage, and a few more apples on top.

6.      Place back in oven for 4 minutes to melt cheese.