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Layered Moroccan Pancakes

Preparation info
  • Makes

    16–20

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Robert Carrier

Published 1987

  • About

These are often called crêpes feuilletées (flaky pancakes) by Moroccan housewives who like to serve them with honey or caster (superfine) sugar as a rich breakfast dish or dessert. It is a folded yeast-raised dough, made much like puff pastry, which is then deep-fried in oil. They can also be stuffed, with a tiny amount of filling spread on before the folding, so that the flavour of the filling permeates the whole ‘pancake’. Stuff with grated onions and khlii sautéed in the ri