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Pancakes with lemon cream and lemon basil
Discover this recipe for tasty pancakes for Candlemas!
Ingredients - for 4 people
- 2 yellow lemons
- 2 limes
- 100g brown sugar
- About fifteen Véritable lemon basil leaves
- 3 eggs
- A tablespoon of cornflour
Preparation
- Wash the lemons and remove a few zests. Squeeze the 4 lemons. Place the zest and juice in a saucepan with the chopped basil leaves. Heat without boiling for 2 minutes, then turn off the heat and cover for 5 minutes. Strain the mixture and return the juice to the pan.
- Add the sugar and cornflour. Whisk gently over a low heat.
- In a bowl, whisk the two eggs and add them to the saucepan while whisking and increasing the heat.
- Whisk until the mixture thickens and becomes a cream.
- Remove from the heat and pour the cream into a jar and leave to cool.
- Spread as much lemon basil cream on your pancakes as you like.
