Baking (cough, 'cooking with flour') all over the world... Somalian anjero

So extensive googling revealed that the Somali kitchen looks like an excellent place to be. There are lots of recipes and blogs packed with amazing looking recipes, from spiced rice and meat dishes to american inspired cookies and cakes.

I decided to try "Anjero", a sourdough pancake often eaten for breakfast with a little butter and sugar. Which, I have to say, was an excellent way to start this morning :)

The recipe is from here and is tres simple: 1/2 cup cornflour, 2 cups self raising flour, approx 2 cups lukewarm water blended together and left for a day or two to ferment in a warm place. They were then cooked in a buttered pan and turned out like lovely, slightly crumpetty tangy pancakes. Lush.

I can imagine these would be really good with savoury foods; sadly the Brits are crap at doing anything imaginative with any form of pancake. 'Lemon and sugar' seems to be as far as they can think. I reckon these would be lovely with something savoury and sloppy, like a good spiced bean stew, or layered with shredded chicken and chillis and cheese and whacked under a grill. You could also add corn, chopped spring onions and chilli to the batter and make a nice savoury corny pancake thing. I'm making myself hungry again now... :)