The Eylanchi is a sweet pancake from Kerala made with All Purpose Flour, Egg filled with a sweet coconut filling.
Eylanchi is also called Madakku San, sometimes tagged as Love Letters. This is a regular pancake batter cooked as dosas and filled with filings. This surely makes a wonderful tea time snack, if you remember not to make it too sweet, in which case it can be served as a dessert.
I did exactly that and served it as dessert. This is much similar to Alle Belle. The batter can also be made with a mix of rice flour along with maida. Since I wanted to try a new recipe, I added rice flour as well along with Maida but simply excluded eggs. For the fillings, the coconut is cooked with sugar and then spread over the cooked pancake. Instead of using refined sugar, I went ahead used Palm Jaggery. The final dish was simply amazing. This is from the Malabar region of Kerala and I adapted from Rafeeda’s.
This recipe calls for egg, which I skipped and instead added ½ tsp baking soda.
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Step by Step Pictures for making Eylanchi
Eylanchi | Madakku San from Kerala
Ingredients Needed
For the Crepes:
- 1 cup All Purpose Flour / Maida
- 1/4 cup Rice Flour
- 2 /3 Milk increase if required
- 1 cup water
- A pinch of salt
- 1 /2 tsp Baking Soda
For the Filling:
- 1 cup Coconut grated
- 2 tbsp Palm Jaggery regular sugar can also be used.
- 1 tsp Ghee
For the Batter
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and make a thin batter
- Let it sit for 10 mins for the soda to react.
For the Filling
- Mix the sugar along with coconut and keep it aside.
- I melt the jaggery so had to cook it further to make it thick
Assembling the pancake.
- Heat a nonstick pan, grease well.
- Pour a ladleful of batter and cook on both sides. Keep it aside.
- Spread a spoonful of filing in the center and roll over it.
Recipe
Eylanchi | Madakku San from Kerala
Ingredients
For the Crepes:
- 1 cup All purpose flour / Maida
- 1/4 cup Rice Flour
- 2 /3 Milk increase if required
- 1 cup Water
- A Pinch Salt
- 1 /2 tsp Baking Soda
For the Filling:
- 1 cup Coconut grated
- 2 tbsp Palm Jaggery regular sugar can also be used.
- 1 tsp Ghee
Instructions
For the Batter
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and make a thin batter
- Let it sit for 10 mins for the soda to react.
For the Filling
- Mix the sugar along with coconut and keep it aside.
- I melt the jaggery so had to cook it further to make it thick
Assembling the pancake.
- Heat a nonstick pan, grease well.
- Pour a ladleful of batter and cook on both sides. Keep it aside.
- Spread a spoonful of filing in the center and roll over it.
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Priya Suresh says
Wow, Eylanchi looks as much as like Goan Alle belle na, lovely find Valli. Seriously irresistible pancakes to enjoy without any fuss. Delicious.
vaishalisabnani says
Wow ! You are amazing Valli ,you work with so much ease , seriously what a delicious find . The pancakes look super melt in the mouthkinds , perfect to be served as a dessert !
gayathriraani says
That is a wonderful pick for the day Valli. I am amazed on how many variations of sweet filled pancakes we have in India. I remember two types we tried for ICC. I need to bookmark all your recipes.
Ritu Tangri says
I should have both in South. There is such a huge variety of dosas and pancakes is there. I just make 2-3 types of pancakes. Bookmarking all of yours to try one by one ????
Sowmya:) says
That looks so fabulous Valli...I wish I had found this too....would have loved to make it for E. Such a simple and yummy dish!!
harini says
Wow! This sounds so delectable, Valli, The filling oozing out of the pancake is way too tempting for my comfort 🙂
mayurisjikoni says
It's amazing how many different varieties of pancakes India has...no need to look elsewhere whenever one wants to make pancakes at home.A lovely dessert treat I must say.
Renu Agrawal Dongre says
On my to do list since long, hopefully will make this. Looks like a lovely treat.
code2cook says
yeah I have seen many alle belle recipes which I am in love with. If you saying this similar to alle belle then surely this would be tasting amazing.
Padmajha PJ says
This one is new to me. Intriguing to see the similarities in cuisine- this one sounds so much like alle bella! The filling is super delicious!! I wonder from where you fins such wonderful recipes!!!
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
I have never heard of this before and the name is so tempting me to try it. How simple the recipe is and I can imagine how flavorful this would have been.
Simply Tadka says
Looks so fabulous and love the addition of jaggery... great pick with E