If you love lemon and ricotta cheese, then you must try this easy recipe for ricotta pancakes. These are so light and soft with a hint of fresh lemon juice.
Make the best pancakes ever with this recipe for ricotta pancakes. Made with creamy ricotta cheese and fresh lemon, these are so good!
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About This Recipe
- These fluffy ricotta pancakes are light, tender, and have delicious lemony tang.
- These pancakes are filling and full of protein because of the ricotta cheese.
- The pancakes are perfect for weekend breakfast when you want something different.
Ingredient Notes
Most of the ingredients are pantry staples and are not that hard to get.
Plain flour
White granulated sugar
Baking powder ā to help make the pancakes extra soft
Salt
4 large eggs
Ricotta Cheese ā Depending on where you live you might find it difficult to get ricotta cheese.
Donāt worry if you canāt get ricotta cheese, itās very easy to make.
You will need just over one cup ricotta cheese so, make the full recipe and you will have more than enough. Click here for my homemade ricotta cheese recipe.
Full cream milk / Whole milk
Fresh lemon juice ā There is 1/3 cup of lemon juice in the recipe, it might seem a lot but itās not, itās just enough to give a light lemon flavour, without being mouth puckering sour.
However, if you think that this is too much lemon, reduce the amount by half if you like.
The lemon juice also reacts with the milk making it similar to buttermilk. This reaction will increase the lightness and tenderness of the pancakes.
Lemon zest
Vanilla extract or essence
Butter for cooking
Kitchen Utensils Required For This Recipe For Ricotta Pancakes
- Kitchen scales
- Measuring spoons
- Measuring cups
- Sieve or flour sifter
- 2 large mixing bowls
- Lemon zester
- Lemon juicer
- Wooden spoon
- Spatula
- Skillet or non-stick fry pan
How To Make
Step 1 ā Place the flour, baking powder and salt into a sieve and sift into a large mixing bowl.
Sifting the flour with the other dry ingredients not only aerates the flour making it lighter, it also helps to combine in the other dry ingredients into the flour.
Step 2 ā In another mixing bowl or large jug combine the wet ingredients. First whisk together the eggs then mix in ricotta cheese until well combined.
Step 3 ā Then add the whole milk, lemon juice, lemon zest and vanilla to the egg / ricotta mixture and stir until well combined.
Step 4 ā Use a spoon to make a well in the centre of the flour.
Step 5 ā Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix until it just combines.
Donāt over mix the batter, because if you do the pancakes will end up being tough.
Step 6 ā Use a ladle or cup to pour batches of batter onto a lightly buttered non-stick frying pan or skillet over medium heat.
Cook on one side until bubbles appear on top, when the bubbles start to remain open and the bottom is golden brown, flip the pancake and cook the other side.
Serve immediately.
Recipe Tips
How many pancakes from this recipe ā This recipe for ricotta pancakes makes about 24 pancakes, using a 1/3 cup measure. However, you can make them any size you want.
Cooking time ā They take about 5- 6 minutes each to cook on a low medium heat. For this quantity (24 pancakes) the total cooking time was over 1 hour, cooking them one at a time over medium/low heat.
If you were to make them smaller and can fit more into a pan the cooking time would reduce. The same is true if you were to make larger pancakes because you will be using more batter and making less.
Donāt over mix ā You want the wet and dry ingredients to just combine (itās okay to have a few lumps in the batter) because over mixing the batter will make the pancakes chewy.
When to flip the pancakes ā As soon as you see bubbles appear on the top and they remain open, check underneath and if golden flip and cook the other side.
What Should I Serve Over These Lemon Ricotta Pancakes?
My favourite way to eat these, is with lemon juice and sugar. But, you might want something more. Try these easy and delicious topping ideas, they are all quick and easy to make.
- Maple syrup
- Chantilly cream and strawberry compote
- Butter and powdered sugar
- Lemon curd
- Easy raspberry coulis
- Stewed rhubarb
- Blackberry jam
- Lemon blueberry sauce
- Butter maple peach topping sauce
Other Sweet Recipes
- Strawberry fool ā a quick 3 ingredient dessert
- Easy ricotta cookies
- Tiger butter fudge
- Candied orange slices
- Slow cooker custard
I do hope you give this recipe for Ricotta Pancakes a try. If you do please come back and leave a comment below because, I would love to know how you went.
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Recipe
Easy Recipe For Ricotta Pancakes
Equipment
- Kitchen scales
- Measuring spoons
- Measuring cups
- Sieve or flour sifter
- 2 large mixing bowls
- Lemon zester
- Lemon juicer
- Wooden spoon
- Spatula
- Skillet or non-stick fry pan
Ingredients
- 260 grams (2 cups) plain flour (all-purpose)
- 100 grams (1/2 cup) white granulated sugar
- 2 level tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 large eggs
- 285 grams (10 ounces) full-fat ricotta cheese
- 400 ml / grams (1 2/3 cups) full cream milk / whole milk
- 70 grams (1/3 cup) lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- butter for cooking
Instructions
- Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl.
- In another bowl, beat the eggs, then add the ricotta cheese and mix well. Next stir in the milk, lemon juice, lemon zest and vanilla.
- Slowly pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, stir until just combined. Donāt over mix, otherwise you will have tough pancakes.
- Heat a non-stick frying pan over a low-medium heat. Working in batches, melt a tablespoon of butter at a time in the fry pan. Note: If the butter has turned a dark brown in the pan before adding the batter, the pan is too hot. Turn down the heat, use a paper towel to wipe away the burnt butter and start again.
- Add a 1/3 cup of batter per pancake (or more if you want lager pancakes) at a time to the fry pan.
- Cook for about 3 minutes or until you see bubbles appear on top and the top looks a little dry, flip and cook the other side. Cook on the other side for about 1 ā 2 minutes or until golden brown. Transfer the cooked pancakes to a serving plate. Repeat with the remaining batter until all cooked. Serve immediately with either fresh lemon juice and sugar or maple syrup.
Notes
- Fresh squeezed lemon juice and sugar
- Maple syrup
- Chantelle cream and strawberry compote
- Jam
- Butter and powdered sugar
- Lemon curd
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