Guardian W/E has Vietnamese recipe using Rice Flour.

Is RICE so critical? Don't have any!

Is this the recipe you are talking about Tim? It looks nice.

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2283903,00.html

South Indians also make rice pancakes called Dosa, very, very popular all over India now, but the batter also has Urad dal; Dosa

Mamta

Yes - would any other flour work??

How do you mean, different in batter or the filling?

Few popular and quick pancakes are made from Besan, Mung dal, Semolina, Utthapam 1 and Utthapam 2.

Pancakes are callled ?Chilla? in north India, may be you will find more recipes on the web if you look for chilla recipes.

Mamta

Thanks. In the batter - none in the filling.

Just wondered if a OO flour or similar would work. Rice flour's not so easy to get.

Hello Tim

Most Indians will soak and grind the rice in a blender, if they did not have access to flour ;-)! In fact, this is what most of us do most of the time. Rice flour just makes it easier.

My mum also used to make sweet pancakes; Meetha Chilla/Dosa. This recipe is from my elder sister, a great vegetarian cook.

I guess you could fill any filling of choice, no reason why not!

Aha!!

Soak it, grind it, then dry it?

No, soak it, grind and use it as batter ;-)!

Mamta

Will do!

Thanks, Mamta.

It might be a bit difficult to be able to spread 'rice only' batter. You may need to add 3:1 rice:urad dal to get a spread able batter or add an egg.

Mamta