I saw an Italian lady make this dish on TV the other day. It looked quite stunning, and she made it look simple and quick. You would think that I had learned by now that cooking programs are very deceptive because of all the off-camera help the front person has. This would be suitable to make for guests but perhaps not for the family since it took ages to make. Thank goodness I started early because I was wanting to take photographs. I can say that it was worth it in the end but I can never reconcile taking several hours to make a meal to have it all demolished in 10 minutes. But maybe you are quicker at cooking than me.
I served it with a homemade tomato, caper and basil sauce.
Savoury Pancake Pinwheels - low Fodmap & Gluten-free
Author: Suzanne Perazzini
Serves: 4
Ingredients
For the pancakes
- 1 cup gluten-free flour
- 1 cup water
- 1 egg
For the filling
- Basil chopped up
- Grated rind of one lemon
- 3 small chillies, chopped finely
- 3 zucchini
- 1 red bell pepper
- 6 slices of cooked bacon
- 1 cup of grated cheese
- ½ cup grated Parmesan
To assemble
- Grated Parmesan
Method
- Mix the pancake ingredients together and cook 6 thin pancakes in a frying pan.
- Spread out a tea towel and place 3 of the pancakes overlappiing on it.
- Place the other 3 underneath overlapping as well. (all 6 pancakes are overlapping).
- Scatter over the grated lemon, basil and chillies.
- Cut up the bacon and place on top.
- Grill the bell pepper and zucchini until soft. Remove the skin of the bell pepper.
- Chop up both of them and scatter over the bacon.
- Distribute the grated cheese on top.
- Using the tea towel as a guide, roll up the pancakes quite tightly.
- Oil a baking dish.
- With a sharp knife, slice the roll into 3-4cm wide rounds and place in the baking dish.
- Scatter the Parmesan over the top and bake until it is hot and the cheese is melted.
Yeah, those cooking programs always make things seem so easy, don’t they? And you never seeing them washing the dishes! Anyway, great looking recipe — thanks.
Oh for a dish washer in the background! Wouldn’t that be nice.
It is a great looking dish. I have fallen into that trap of thinking something will take a few minutes to make and four hours later I’m nearly in tears. I’m not a fast cook at all and those Jamie Oliver cookbooks drive me to drink! If I made this for my family I’d tell them to chew slowly xx
I get kind of panicky when the recipe takes much longer than expected and that takes away the pleasure of cooking. I should automatically double the expected time but I always overestimate my speed ability.
Jamie Oliver recipes are delicious but hugely misleading with the timing.
This looks very good! Could you replace the bacon with somethin else, i don´t eat red meat ?
Yes, of course you could replace all the filling ingredients with whatever you want. I am sure you could make a great alternative filling and it would be just as good.