Pancakes With Blood Orange Honey Sauce

Ingredients

BLOOD ORANGE HONEY SAUCE

• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/2 cup blood orange juice, strained
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch or cornflour
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 8 ounces fresh strawberries, quarter

PANCAKE

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
• 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, sifted
• 1/2 teaspoon salt, sifted
• 1 tablespoon white sugar, sifted
• 1 egg
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted and slightly cooled
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• cooking spray, for pan

Directions

1. 1

   Blood Orange Honey Sauce: In small saucepan, add honey, blood orange juice and cornflour, whisk well until sauce ingredients are blended.

2. 2

   Put saucepan over a medium heat and bring mixture to a boil, whisking occasionally and cook until sauce starts to boil, then remove from heat.

3. 3

   Whisk in butter until completely dissolved into the sauce. Set aside and allow cooling until pancakes are ready.

4. 4

   Pancake: In a large bowl, add sifted flour, baking powder, salt and sugar, mix well and make a small well in the centre of the bowl with the dried ingredients.

5. 5

   Add the egg in centre of the well, then add melted butter, slowly add milk and mix until smooth. (You may not need to add the entire 1 1/2 cups of milk, consistence of mixture needs to be smooth).

6. 6

   Using the cooking spray, lightly oil pancake pan or non stick frying pan over medium heat.

7. 7

   Once pan is hot, pour approximately 1/4 cup of pancake mixture onto the pan. Brown on one side of pancake then flip, brown other side of pancake, place cooked pancake onto a warm plate. Repeat this step until all the pancake mixture has completed. Note: Only flip once as pancake will become tough and not light.

8. 8

   To assemble: Equally divided pancakes on four plates. Equally pour blood orange honey sauce on top of the pancakes and then add strawberries on top of the sauce.

9. 9

   Enjoy.