Savoury Filled Pancakes?

[NotQuiteCockney]

We had a really nice spinach and cheese sort of filled pancake this morning. How do you make these? They seem like a really nice snack option, and are reasonable cold.

I do them in a very non-technical way, usually after making too much batter on Shrove Tuesday - just roll normal pancakes up round some ricotta and pre-wilted spinach, then either put in baking dish and heat through in the oven (with or without cheese sauce over), or eat cold.

These looked like they were cooked with the fillings in? Or something?

Certainly the "inside" of the pancake wasn't brown like the outside ...

ooh, no clue then. Maybe cooked lightly in the frying pan then browned in oven / under grill once rolled? Or only fried one one side, omlette stylee?

Where did you have them? really fancy them now and have dull dull sandwiches for lunch...

Got them from a strange half-organic/half-halal-butcher shop. They were "home made". The batter was a very plain one, probably without baking soda (not american-style pancakes).

I think it was an ethnic thing, there was chilli in it too. Might have been called Borak?

Nope. But that's no surprise as I'm a) not British and b) not a telly-watcher.

here's delias version

hmm - the borak-type things (also bourrekka, burreks etc etc) are more like samosas - pastry / pancake / filo or similar folded into a triangle round the filling and deep fried.

Often filled w feta / halloumi or similar and/or spinach but had a brilliant one in N. Africa (probably Tunisia, maybe Egypt or Morocco) with a boiled egg in.

sorry, that should be the borak-type things I've met

This was definately not deep-fried, more shallow-fried. And more pancake than pastry. Certainly not filo.

We quite like b'stilla, but of course you have to cook a chicken first, and if I cook a chicken, we generally eat it, rather than using it to make some other complicated dish ...