Ebelskeiver filled with cream cheese

Ebelskeiver filled with cream cheese
- Sangita Kalarickal

1and 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
2 large eggs, separated
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
Lemon zest

Filling: beaten cream cheese, finely chopped onions.

Add the dry ingredients together, mix well. Separate eggs. Mix the yolks well with milk, add to dry ingredients, mix well. Beat whites until stiff but soft peaks form. First mix half the beaten whites  with the batter. Then slowly fold in the remaining half with the batter. This is an important step, makes the ebelskeivers fluffy.
Pour some batter into the pan, then add the filling, then top it off with more batter. Take care that you only fill three fourth of the well because the little cakes will rise. After a few minutes, turn over the cakes.

You can fill these with different fillings...sweet ones like jams, sweet cream cheese or savory and spicy ones too.

Rajasthani Tikker/Tikkad

Rajasthani Tikker/Tikkad -
- Aparna Rao
Ingredients- 1/2 cup Makai ka atta, 1/3 cup wheat flour, ajwain, tomatoes, ginger, garlic, green chillies, coriander, ghee, salt, haldi ,hing.
Chop tomatoes and onions fine into a bowl, add in salt, ajwain, haldi, hing, fine chopped ginger and chillies; smash garlic pods with your hand and then chop fine. Add in fine chopped coriander, salt and mix them up well and set aside. In a separate plate, take makai and wheat flours - more makai flour, add a bit of salt, haldi and hing. Add in 2-3 teaspoons of ghee and blend the flours lightly with your fingers. Add in half of the mixed spices to the flours and knead into smooth dough. Set for some time. While  you heat the pan, start rolling out the rotis, roll out thick, add a spoonful of the mixed tomato onion as topping and roll it in. Use dry flour for dusting the rolling pin and the roti too... Roast like rotis on the pan. It takes longer than normal rotis. When one side turns golden brown, turn and add ghee... To both sides. Enjoy with coriander chutney, dates chutney, pickle, dahi or butter... 😋