Chebab/Chabab/Shebab is one of the most known Arabian pancakes which is eaten for breakfast simply with butter,honey,sugar, jam or else with date syrup. Chebabs are yeasted pancakes and they are the most liked breakfast of many in Arabic countries. These chebabs have their own place even in Ramadan meal. Flavored with cardamom and saffron,these pancakes are simply fabulous to indulge with some buttery honey sauce. Chebabs do exists in two versions, for the old version of chebab,dates are used instead of sugar. If you check for this Chebab recipe, you will surely find them out with dates in them. Dates are soaked in hot water until they turn soft and later they are used in making this super flavourful pancakes. And the other difference from most of the pancakes is this pancakes calls for yeast. Often baking powder is used as leavening agent in most of the pancakes, but this Emirati pancakes calls for yeast hence these pancakes are slightly heavier and spongy than the other pancakes.
If you have already tried Moroccan Baghrir, the popular 1000 holes pancakes, you will find that these chebabs don't have much difference apart from the spices. Yes cardamom and saffron is used in this pancakes and the addition of these two spices makes this spongy Chebabs more flavourful and catchy. The addition of cardamom powder gives a wonderful flavor to this incredible pancakes while saffron gives the beautiful yellowish colour which is seriously very colourful to eyes with a subtle aroma.If you are follower of my space, you might have noticed that am running a month of blogging marathon with 4 themes for 4 weeks. And for the first week of this Mega marathon am running with International Breakfast as theme, after some delicious Pancakes and breakfast buns, am posting this flavorsome rich Emirati pancakes to suite perfectly for this theme.
Recipe Source: Taste of Emarat
In a bowl, take the flour, sugar, salt,yeast,cardamom powder, saffron and pour the lukewarm milk. Whisk the eggs and add it to the mixture.
Add the enough water to make a mixture and turn them as pancake batter, keep aside in a warm place.
Let the batter sit for an hour.
Heat a pan, grease it generously, pour a ladle of batter and cook in medium flame on both sides until they turns golden brown.
Serve them immediately with butter and honey.
