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Chai Pancakes with Chai Poached Pears

With the carefully balanced blend of spices, why not spice up an ordinary pancake mix for a special breakfast on those lazy mornings?

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Chai Pancakes with Chai Poached Pears
September 21, 2015
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Chai Pancakes with Chai Poached Pears

I was never really a coffee person, always a tea person. Don’t get me wrong, I do drink coffee, but I could probably count the amount of coffees per year I drink on both my hands. When chai hit the trend in Melbourne, I had no idea what I had been missing out on all these years. Now after years of drinking it, I’ve become a bit of a chai snob. Just like coffee snobs, I’ve have my favourite blends, don’t like the instant stuff and don’t go putting too much water or burning my milk! 

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My all time favourite chai blend is by the guys at Prana Chai. It’s a wet chai mix, with the right amount of every spice for my palette. Luckily they have been successful and I can get it at a lot of places now, including country towns. 

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I decided to have a chai-inspired breakfast one morning. Admittedly, it took longer to prepare than most breakfasts, but sometimes you just gotta ‘treat yoself’! After poaching the pears, you are left with this liquid gold chai syrup that you can pour over your pancakes, and keep for any future pancakes or french toast breakfasts. The pancakes are super fluffy, and with the chai infusion, for me it was the stuff of dreams!

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Chai Pancakes with Chai Poached Pears

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Ingredients
  

Chai Pancakes

  • 1 1/2 cups chai infused milk
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups self-raising flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/3 cup caster sugar
  • 25 g butter melted

Chai Poached Pears

  • 1 litre water
  • cups 330g caster (superfine) sugar
  • 2 chai tea bags
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 3 cardamom pods crushed
  • 4 x medium pears peeled

Instructions
 

  • Poach the pears: Place the water, sugar, tea bags, cinnamon and cardamom in a medium saucepan over high heat and bring to the boil. Remove the tea bags and add the pears. Cover with a piece of non-stick baking paper and top with a small plate or lid to weigh down the pears. Reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 35–40 minutes or until the pears are soft. Carefully remove the pears from the syrup, increase the heat to high and cook for 20–25 minutes, or until thickened slightly.
  • To make the pancakes; whisk milk, and egg together in a jug. Sift flour and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Stir in sugar. Make a well in centre. Add milk mixture. Whisk until just combined.
  • Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat.
  • Brush pan with butter.
  • Using 1/4 cup mixture per pancake, cook 2 pancakes for 3 to 4 minutes or until bubbles appear on surface. Turn and cook for 3 minutes or until cooked through.
  • Transfer to a plate. Cover loosely with foil to keep warm.
  • Repeat with remaining mixture, brushing pan with butter between batches.
  • Divide pancakes evenly on 4 plates, top with a pear and spoon the syrup over the pears to serve.

Comments

2 comments on “Chai Pancakes with Chai Poached Pears
  1. Maureen | Orgasmic Chef

    I love poached pears but I’ve never had them for breakfast, only dessert. I’m so eager to try this for a fancy breakfast I’ve got coming up.

    Reply
    September 22, 2015 at 10:57 am
  2. Debs @ Wilde Orchard

    Shellie, these look gorgeous. Love how those gorgeous poached pears look delicately perched on those super fluffy pancakes!

    Reply
    October 1, 2015 at 5:15 am

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