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Pannenkoeken met spek en kaas thuis

Dutch pancakes with bacon and cheese at home

Published 2024-4-24

Direct link to the recipe here

After our recent trip to the Netherlands (and Belgium too; more to come on my adventures in both places), my wife and I returned home.

We really enjoyed the Dutch pancakes while there. They’re thin (but thicker than a crêpe) and the size of a dinner plate. Our favourite also featured bacon (or ham if you’d rather; I had both and both were delicious) and cheese. Our favourite pancake house that we visited1 used grated cheese, while others would lay down slices of cheese before covering with a bit more batter. My recipe is based around trying to recreate our favourite.

Een pannenkoek thuis met spek en kaas

Ingredients

Portioned for two pancakes the size of a dinner plate

Instructions

  1. Mix the flour, salt, egg, and half of the milk together in a bowl until it is well mixed and not lumpy.

  2. Mix in the rest of the milk, then let it sit for 30 minutes or so.

  3. Heat the pan over medium heat and melt 1/2 tbsp of butter, then arrange your bacon in the pan and let it sit until the fat starts to render.

  4. Pour one ladle of the batter into the centre of the pan, then tilt the pan around to coat the entire base of the pan in batter.

  5. Sprinkle the cheese all over the pancake.

  6. Add some more batter on top of the cheese and tilt the pan around again to cover.

  7. Let cook until the batter on top of the pancake is dry (or at least starting to) and the bottom is nicely browned. ~2-3 minutes.

  8. Flip the pancake over and let cook until that side is nicely browned as well. ~1-2 minutes.

  9. Remove and serve!

  10. For additional pancakes, just add another 1/2 tbsp of butter then start over at step 3.

  1. Will’s Pancake House in Den Haag’s city centre, located right behind the Panthe theatre, just off the tram stops Spui and Centrum. ↩︎

  2. Optional, but replace with 15g of wheat flour for 125g total. ↩︎

  3. This is just regular bacon from the grocery store if you’re in the US. If you want something more like Dutch ontbijtspek (breakfast bacon) then you probably want thicker sliced pancetta. ↩︎