Chilla - Spicy wheat flour crepes

Chilla / Spicy wheat flour crepes

Chilla - Spicy wheat flour crepes

Light and fluffy, wheat flour crepes ready under 10 minutes.  The ultimate lazy Sunday breakfast or a quick Tea Time Snack.

Crepes might have originated in France however this isn’t a French recipe and has no eggs at all. And is called Chilla in India, I like to call it crepes because it’s made of wheat flour batter of pouring consistency and can be eaten with many different fillings, the variations are endless. I have always had these as a child with some pickle but today there are many options and this recipe will give you the chance to explore your favorite filling.

This is a really quick, easy and delicious recipe with very little ingredients and can be made in 10 minutes.  I make these very often mostly because I am lazy but also because it’s so tasty.

Makes 8 to 10 crepes

Ingredients:

Wheat flour 1/3 cup

Salt to taste

Chilly powder/ cayenne pepper 1 tsp

Dry mango powder – ½ tsp (optional)

Zest of one lemon

Water to make a batter (2/3 of a cup)

Oil

Method:

1     Mix the wheat flour, salt( I add about a tsp), chilly powder or cayenne pepper with a fork

2    Add water to make a runny yet thick batter (pouring consistency). Add Zest of one lemon

3    Heat  a pan, pour  a ladle of batter and gently  swirl with the back of the ladle to thin it out ( not necessary if your batter is thin just swirl the pan

       Add a little oil before flipping the pancake (would take about 30 seconds or less to cook).

      Serve these hot and delicious spicy pancakes with some cream cheese, chilly sauce/ ketchup or as I mentioned before I gobbled mine with some mango pickle and a Cuppa….Yum!

Chilla - Spicy wheat flour crepes