©2008 Ashy Macbean
This is based on a Russian recipe. Aladi are like small thick pancakes and traditionally they are made using eggs. They are also most often made with grated potato. I don't eat eggs and I wanted to do something more adventurous so I left out the eggs and used carrot and apple in place of potatoes, so this is kind of aladi a la Macbean.
You can do this recipe with courgettes too. Sveta does that quite often. The aladi are delicious Just do everything the same, but substitute a couple of courgettes for the apple and carrot. I haven't used nutmeg with the courgette version.
Ingredients
1 carrot
1 apple
400g of yoghurt
About a cup of flour
3 or 4 teaspoons of sugar
A little salt
A pinch of ground nutmeg
Oil
Peel and grate the carrot and apple and mix with the yoghurt, then stir in the flour, sugar, salt and mutmeg. Drop blobs of the mixture into a hot frying pan containing a little oil (about a dessert spoon of mixture is the right amount and my frying pan takes three at a time). Cook the aladi on a medium heat for about 2 minutes each side. Watch for little bubbles appearing all over the cooking aladi. That tells you it's about time to turn them over.
The usual accompaniment to aladi is a little sour cream and we sometimes put some jam on them too.