Moroccan adventure...

This post is a part of a swap with the following rules ~
*pick a recipe posted on a certain blog
*cook the dish
*take a pic of everything and post on your blog

The recipes were all from a Moroccan cuisine book... We have a small fast food corner here, where you can eat falafel, harissa and such small dishes, but apart from that, I've never tried anything Moroccan. Well, that would be a challenge, I thought... For some reason, Beghrir sounded quite nice and ~ most of all ~ manageable to me, so I planned to do this:

The recipe: I was happy about the g and ml indications! I can deal with spoons, but cups just make my brain go BANG! I never know how much a cup is and the recipes that mention cups make me want to cry... (There must be a certain amount that generally makes a cup and I imagine some of you might laugh about my confusion, but still...) All the ingredients looked perfectly reasonable too and within reach, no need to find a Moroccan grocery store (nothing wrong with that, but due to my habit to get my swaps done on the last day...), I just had to go out to buy some fresh yeast... The instructions were clear, I just had to look up some words like 'semolina', so yeah, I thought I can get started... Oh, and I took the half of everything, because the original recipe sounded like a huge load of pancakes ^.^

The ingredients

 

salt, eggs,  (granny's ^^) yeast, butter, semolina, water, oil (a little bit for the pan), milk, flour and honey to add if you wish...

First step: mix yeast and water and leave for 15 minutes

 

well, I do a lot of things with yeast, fresh or dry, but I always use milk here... then it gets all happy and bubbly and I can get on with my buns and dumplings... Here ~ nothing happened... I thought I killed the yeast first, because the water was too hot, so I tried again and checked the water three times before I decided to use it... well, still nothing... I decided to use it as it is then...

Second step: mix the rest of the stuff 

 

I decided to just take two eggs, because 1 and a half sounded too troublesome to me (though it's possible) and after I mixed all the ingredients (except the fluids), I realized that I should have added the yeast stuff later... oh well... I also didn't sift anything because my sieve is tiny and it would have taken me a million years...

Then ~ beat it!!

 

it was quite interesting to beat the dough with one hand and to take a photo with the other o.O

 

I liked what it looked like ^^

The dough: should be left under a cloth for two hours... Done that, but nothing raised... mehhh... 

















Third step: just make them pancakes

















ok, the dough looked pretty much like water, but I managed to produced something that looked like a pancake...

















I know, I wasn't supposed to turn them, but I just wanted to make sure that they weren't raw on the one side and burnt on the other... It also turned out that my oven is a B**** because 2 was too much heat and 1,5 too little, so yeah...

















It took me like 40 minutes to make about 12 pancakes (don't be offended if I call them pancakes all the time), which reminded me why I hardly ever make pancakes... I didn't put any more butter on them than while frying, because my stomach would have cried, but I prepared honey to eat them with... And I also made my favourite lemon tea to enjoy with them ^.^

















I'm going to try them with sour cream (it does look like a white mouse sitting on beghrir, doesn't it? o.O)... wait, this is GOOD!!

In the end, I didn't manage to try honey, because they were so good with sour cream and then I was full! But there are quite a few left for later, so I hope I'll try them with honey too ^^