Antigua and Barbuda - My first Country that Truly had No Pancakes

So, with the exception of Antarctica (which isn't really a country), Antigua and Barbuda is the second country I've come across that truly doesn't have a pancake recipe.  Anguilla was the first one.  Antigua and Barbuda is an island country teeming with fish recipes, as one would expect from an island country.  However, search as I did, I couldn't find anything resembling pancakes.  I did find a dumpling type of recipe called ducana.  It sounded really yummy, so I decided to attempt to modify the recipe and turn it into a sweet potato pancake.  Go here for the original ducana recipe and pictures, and you'll see why I wanted to modify this into a potato pancake.  Here are the ingredients I used for our modified recipe:

2 sweet potatoes, peeled
1/2 cup of unsweetened, shredded coconut
1 cup of flour
1/4 cup of sugar
3 Tablespoons coconut milk
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

After peeling the sweet potatoes, grate them using a hand grater or food processor.  I chose the food processor.






After shredding the sweet potatoes, mix all of the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.





Now it's time to add the wet ingredients.  First add the coconut milk.





Beat the eggs in a separate bowl and then add them to the mixture.





Here is what the mixture looked like:





Next, fry them in a pan in about 1/4 inch of whatever type of oil you like frying with.  We chose vegetable oil.  Normally I'd use olive oil, but I didn't think the taste of the olive oil would go well with the other ingredients.  You will have to add more cooking oil as you fry because like other potato pancakes, these do absorb quite a bit of oil as you fry them.  Here's a picture of the finished product:




Mmmmmmm, these sure do look yummy!  Unfortunately, they didn't taste as yummy as they looked.  Actually, I should say that the flavor profile was good, it was the texture of these that was off.  Here is how this experiment ended:




I didn't even finish frying them all up, it all ended up in the trash because I couldn't, or rather Sam couldn't since I refused to try a bite after I saw the look on his face, get beyond the yucky texture.  I've decided to try this recipe again, but I'm waiting until Chanukah to do so.  I'll modify the recipe further to use only 1/4 cup of flour instead of 1 cup.  I think this will take care of the texture issue. So, if you decide to experiment with this recipe, try it out with only 1/4 cup of flour and let me know how it turns out!



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