Mont Lin Maya ('Husband and Wife' Pancakes)

Name: Mont Lin Maya ('Husband and Wife' Pancakes)
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Burmese
Ingredients: 200 g Rice flour; 320 ml Water; 1 tsp Salt; ½ tsp Turmeric powder; 12 Quail eggs; 120 g Cooked chickpeas; 4 Spring onions, finely sliced; 3 tbsp Peanut oil; 1 A takoyaki, aebleskiver or paddu pan

Crisp little rice-flour cups fried in a dimpled pan, one filled with a quail egg, one with chickpeas and spring onion, then pressed together into a pair — which is why the name means 'husband and wife'. Yangon's answer to takoyaki, sold hot from street carts.

Fonte

Receita de Burmese home kitchens · 🏺 Tradicional · Cooking built on three things — a pot of oil-slicked onion and garlic base, fermented fish or shrimp for depth, and a table where everything arrives at once and is shared.

Myanmar · 'husband and wife' street pancakes — An ownerless street snack, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms mont lin maya as crisp round savoury pancakes of rice flour, quail eggs, chickpeas and spring onions fried in a special metal pan, its name meaning 'husband and wife', and its other names in Mawlamyine and Upper Myanmar. The batter ratio, lid-on method, timings and quantities are this book's own.

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⏱ 40 min🍽 4 porções🔥 280 kcal🇲🇲 Myanmar

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Modo de preparo

Whisk the rice flour, water, salt and turmeric into a thin batter, the consistency of single cream. Rest 15 minutes.
💡 Thin. This batter has to run to the bottom of each dimple and set into a shell; a thick batter gives you dumplings, not cups.
Heat the pan over medium heat and brush every dimple with oil. When the oil shimmers, pour batter into each dimple to fill it two-thirds.
Into half the dimples crack a quail egg. Into the other half drop a spoonful of chickpeas and a pinch of spring onion.
Cover and cook 4–5 minutes until the edges are golden and lift cleanly from the pan and the egg whites are set.
💡 Covered. The lid steams the top while the pan crisps the bottom — uncovered, the egg is still raw when the shell is done.
With a skewer, lift out an egg cup and set it on top of a chickpea cup, pressing the two rims together so they stick — a husband and a wife.
Eat immediately, while the shell still crackles.

💡 Dicas

Street carts sell them by the pair in a scrap of newspaper with a shake of pepper. They do not survive a plate — eat from the hand.
In Mawlamyine and Upper Myanmar the same snack is called mont ok galay or mont maung hnan — 'little covered snack' and 'couple snack'.