Pancake Perfection: Sweet and savoury pancake recipes

Sweet or savoury? Breakfast, lunch or dessert? Pancakes are as versatile as they come.

For those more inclined to traditional homemade pancakes for the ultimate weekend breakfast treat, where the success really comes down to the pancake batter of wet ingredients (milk, melted butter, eggs) and dry ingredients (all-purpose flour, baking powder, sugar), we have ample recipes for fluffy pancakes.

But if you prefer savoury over sweet, you’ll want to try our recipes for okonomiyaki, banh xeo and kimchi noodle pancakes.

Here are our best pancake recipes of the sweet and savoury kind.

Chocolate, tahini and pear pancakes

Chocolate, tahini and pear pancakes

Syrian filled pancakes with pistachio cream

Syrian filled pancakes with pistachio cream

Chocolate hotcakes with fudge sauce

Chocolate hotcakes with fudge sauce

Ricotta hotcakes with apple and honey

Ricotta hotcakes with apple and honey

Rocker’s buckwheat pancakes with strawberries

Rocker’s buckwheat pancakes with strawberries

How to make okonomiyaki (Japanese savoury pancake)

How to make okonomiyaki (Japanese savoury pancake)

Sour cream pancakes with Suzette sauce

Sour cream pancakes with Suzette sauce

Eun Hee An’s spring onion pancakes with jamón

Eun Hee An’s spring onion pancakes with jamón

Mango pancakes with vanilla syrup

Mango pancakes with vanilla syrup

Curtis Stone’s Dutch baby with lemon butter and clotted cream

Curtis Stone’s Dutch baby with lemon butter and clotted cream

The essential guide to making fluffy pancakes

The essential guide to making fluffy pancakes

Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake) with sticky soy pork belly

Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake) with sticky soy pork belly

Dutch baby with honey-limoncello syrup

Dutch baby with honey-limoncello syrup

German pancake recipe with lemon and sugar

German pancake recipe with lemon and sugar

Banh xeo (Vietnamese pancake) with prawns and pickled carrot

Banh xeo (Vietnamese pancake) with prawns and pickled carrot

Puffed pancake with honey-malt ice-cream and bananas

Puffed pancake with honey-malt ice-cream and bananas

Thick ricotta pancake with roast rhubarb

Thick ricotta pancake with roast rhubarb

Bodega’s buttermilk pancakes with bacalao, egg and smoked maple butter

Bodega’s buttermilk pancakes with bacalao, egg and smoked maple butter

Kimchi noodle pancakes

Kimchi noodle pancakes

Buckwheat pikelets with bacon and maple butter

Buckwheat pikelets with bacon and maple butter

Japanese soufflé pancakes with genmaicha sugar

Japanese soufflé pancakes with genmaicha sugar

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