Savoury æbleskiver (Danish pancake balls) with bacon
Recipe for savoury æbleskiver (Danish pancake balls) with onion and bacon.This recipe makes about 14 æbleskiver
Servings 6 people
Ingredients
Æbleskiver
- 6 eggs
- 140 g plain flour
- 150 ml whipping cream (38% fat)
- 70 g butter
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 80 g bacon
- 1 tsp salt
- Chives to garnish, and a little crisp bacon if you like
- Butter for frying, preferably clarified butter
Beetroot jam
- 250 ml pickling liquid from a jar of pickled beetroot
- 3 1/2 g agar agar can be replaced with 2 1/2 sheets of leaf gelatine, soaked in cold water
Instructions
Beetroot jam
- Bring the pickling liquid to the boil.
- Add the agar agar and bring back to the boil. If using gelatine, simply heat the liquid and stir the soaked gelatine into it until dissolved.
- Strain the mixture through a fine sieve and leave it to cool completely in the fridge until it sets – about 2 hours.
- Blend the set mixture to a smooth jam, adjust the consistency with a little boiling water if needed, and keep it chilled until serving.
Æbleskiver
- Fry the bacon until golden – not crisp, just golden. Chop it finely and set aside.
- Melt the butter in a small saucepan, add the onion and let it cook gently over a low heat for 5 min. Turn off the heat, add the bacon and let it cool slightly.
- Separate the eggs into yolks and whites, and whisk the whites to stiff peaks in a bowl. Set them aside.
- Stir the cream and salt into the butter mixture with the onion and bacon.
- Add the plain flour a little at a time and stir it well into the batter.
- Stir the egg yolks into the batter and finally fold in the stiff egg whites – do this in a couple of batches.
- Fry the æbleskiver in a generous knob of butter, preferably clarified, in an æbleskiver pan. Fill each hole generously with batter – it may well bubble over a little, and that way you ensure the æbleskiver come out nicely round.
- Serve the æbleskiver topped with finely chopped chives, crumbled crisp bacon if you like, and the beetroot jam.