Japanese Pancake with Sweet Red Bean (Dorayaki)
Posted June 22nd, 2010 in Food 6 Comments »
A fluffy pancake sandwich with chunky azuki bean paste….
You may have seen Doraemon, a cat-shaped robot in Japanese cartoon, eating dorayaki. Dorayaki is a Japanese sweet which consists of two small pancakes and a filling of anko (azuki bean paste).
It’s always the best to use an electric grill pan so that cakes turn evenly brown. And, controlling the heat is the another key to make this moist pancake.
The standard dorayaki has a filling of azuki bean paste, but nowadays you can get with custard cream filling, white bean paste (shiro-an), whipped cream, etc in Japan. I spread margarin to the pancakes, but normally you just add azuki bean paste. I thought a filling of grated cheddar and condensed milk would be a nice match too. (like Indonesian Martabak)
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<Dorayaki> makes 4 (small batch)
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- 2 eggs (M~L)
- 4 tbs (60g) sugar
- 2 tbs honey
- 80g plain flour
- 20g baking flour
- 1/2 baking soda
- about 4 tbs milk (to adjust)
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- Place egg, sugar, and honey in a bowl and whisk until fluffy.
- Shift in the dry ingredients. Mix using a spatular quickly. (don’t mix too much)
- Add milk gradually. Mix with spatular, but do not stir too much. Move the spatular as if you are cutting the batter.
- Heat an skillet or hot plat, and spray oil lightly. Using a small ladle, pour a scoop of the batter into the skillet and make a small pancake.
- Turn over when bubbles appear on the surface. Repeat this process with remaining batter to make 8 pancakes. Keep pancakes covered while cooking off the batter.
- Spread margarine on one side of pancake, and sandwich a scoop of azuki bean paste.
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* You can place a lid while cooking the pancakes to prevent them from drying out.
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We grew up in Vietnam reading Doraemon (called Doremon over there though) so always wanted to try the cake (you can understand given the cat himself at least went crazy about this treat once in every chapter). For some reason I thought it’s the deepfried doughnuts with jams, other friends of mine said that it’s the red bean frozen cake with spongy texture that can be found at Asian groceries. Thanks heaps for sharing this recipe. I may give it a go this weekend
Hi Thang,
It’s really amazing that Doraemon (and other Japanese cartoons) is on tv in many countries around the world
He speaks Vietnamese on tv, right?
In the cartoon it is difficult to see what the “dorayaki” is, but it looks yammy as Doraemon is so crazy about it
Dorayaki pancakes should be moist and sweet. Please try making it ♪
Yo Ume!
Here’s a funny coincidence…
I have a Doraemon clock that sings and when my girlfriend first saw it she said, “It’s Ding-Dong!”.
I said, “No, that’s Doraemon!” But in Hong Kong (she’s Cantonese) they call Doraemon “Ding-Ding”. I asked why and she said it’s easier for kids to say :S
Anywaaaaaaaaay, I saw dorayaki in the freezer at Emmas in Northbridge and they were labeled “Dong”
Dorayaki = Dong…. A bit weird.
So Ding Dong eats Dongs…. and if eating Dongs was called “Ding” too, would that mean…
“How many Dongs could a Ding-Dong Ding if a Ding-Dong could Ding Dongs???”
Hmmmmm….. Perhaps not
Bishonencam,
“Ding-Dong”?? wow… I never head anyone calling Doraemon in such name :p
But, it is easy do say rather than “doraemon”, yes.
Your sentence is really confusing… ! (>0<) We better keep it as “doraemon” and “eat dorayaki” (¬˚∆˙)
20g baking flour means self raising flour ?
Swee San ,
No, baking flour is strong flour, like “baker’s flour”.