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Natasha Kravchuk from 'Natasha's Kitchen' shares her recipe for her mom's fluffy pancakes

Natasha Kravchuk's mom (or Baba, as her kids call her) makes these Ukrainian pancakes every Sunday, and every Sunday they are gobbled up.
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This cover image released by Clarkson Potter shows "Natasha's Kitchen: 100+ Easy Family-Favorite Recipes You'll Make Again and Again: A Cookbook" by Natasha Kravchuk. (Clarkson Potter via AP)

Natasha Kravchuk's mom (or Baba, as her kids call her) makes these Ukrainian pancakes every Sunday, and every Sunday they are gobbled up. Like American pancakes, they鈥檙e light and fluffy, but the yeasted batter gives them even more flavor, rise, and substantial texture, and they puff up like doughnuts when they hit the hot oil in the pan.

Kravchuk also loves that the batter is make-ahead friendly, and tastes even better as it sits and ferments in the fridge, which gives what she calls 鈥淏aba's Fluffy Oladi Pancakes鈥 a subtle sourdough-like flavor.

BABA'S FLUFFY OLADI PANCAKES

Serves: 6-8

INGREDIENTS

1 cup water, warmed to 115掳F

1 cup buttermilk

1 large egg, room temperature

2 tablespoons extra-light olive oil or vegetable oil, plus more for the pan

2 tablespoons sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast

1录 teaspoons fine sea salt

2戮 cups all-purpose flour

FOR SERVING:

Honey or jam of your choice

Sour cream

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large bowl, whisk together the water, buttermilk, egg, oil, sugar, yeast and salt. Add the flour, 1 cup at a time, whisking to incorporate each addition before adding more. Continue whisking until the batter is smooth with a thin, cake-batter consistency.

2. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the batter rise at room temperature for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, or in a warm place (about 100掳F) for 1 hour. The mixture should become very bubbly and almost double in size.

3. In a large nonstick or cast-iron skillet over medium heat, add enough oil to coat the bottom of the pan. Working in batches, add heaping tablespoons of the batter to the hot skillet, spacing them just far enough apart that they aren鈥檛 touching and can still be flipped easily. Cook the pancakes for about 1 1/2 minutes per side, until golden brown, adding more oil as needed after flipping. Feel free to reduce the heat if you find they鈥檙e browning too quickly. Continue with the remaining batter, keeping the skillet well-oiled between batches to ensure crisp, tasty, and beautifully golden edges on the pancakes.

4. Transfer the pancakes to a platter and serve warm with honey, raspberry sauce and sour cream.

Pro Tips & Tricks

This recipe yields a big batch, but you could halve the ingredients for a smaller number of servings. These also reheat very well, so you could make the entire batch and reheat them in the toaster.

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Reprinted with permission from 鈥淣atasha鈥檚 Kitchen鈥 by Natasha Kravchuk, copyright (copyright) 2023. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Photograph by Charity Burggraaf.

The Associated Press

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