Your best TF pancake recipe

[estuary]

Hi fellow-foodies!

I'd love to gather up everyone's favorite TF inspired pancake recipes and ideas.

Ultimately I'm looking for a sourdough pancake recipe, but I thought it would be fun to post other types as well, all in one spot. My search for a sourdough recipe comes because I've had success in cultivating a starter but I'm reluctant to make bread with it until it's matured somewhat.

Here's a pancake that I like to make sometimes - though the flour isn't soaked, I wonder if it would change the consistency if I modified it so that the flour was soaked along with the oats? I use rapadura instead of brown sugar and since I'm usually reluctant to dirty yet another pan to melt the butter I tend to use olive oil.

Cinnamon Oatcakes (from Gardens by the Bay, a cookbook out of Morro Bay, CA)

2 cups oats
2 cups buttermilk
2 eggs, lightly beaten
¼ cup melted butter or veg. oil
½ cup raisins
½ cup whole wheat flour
2 Tbsp. brown sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. (or more) cinnamon
2 tsps. Vanilla

Soak oats in buttermilk overnight (keep cool). The next morning, add eggs, butter/oil, raisins and stir to blend. In another bowl stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, soda, and cinnamon. Add to oats, stir until moistened. Add vanilla. Cook with a little oil on preheated griddle.
Enjoy!

[spughy]

Here's my sourdough pancake recipe - bear in mind it's from memory so I may update this tonight when I get home!

Night before:

1 cup starter
2 cups flour
2 cups filtered water
2 tbsp sucanat

Morning:

Remove 1 cup of starter for next time!

Add:

1 egg
3 tbsp melted butter
1 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp sucanat

Mix the additions together THEN fold into starter mixture. Yummy yummy yummy. Especially with birch syrup.

[kallyn]

I like to make pancakes out of crispy nuts.

1 1/4 cups almond flour made from crispy almonds
1/2 cup water
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 whole eggs plus 1 egg white (use the egg yolk for a smoothie, yum)

optional add-ins: berries, stevia, cinnamon, etc

Just mix all the ingredients together til smooth and cook in a hot buttered skillet. They are great with butter on them, or maple syrup or raw honey. The raw honey works best if you thin it with a little bit of warm water.

[estuary]

Originally Posted by kallyn

I like to make pancakes out of crispy nuts.

1 1/4 cups almond flour made from crispy almonds

Kallyn, do you just blend the nuts up in a blender or food processor in order to obtian the flour?

This sounds like a nice grain-free way to still enjoy pancakes....: Thanks!

[estuary]

Originally Posted by spughy

Here's my sourdough pancake recipe

Great! I'm also looking this one over - because of its long soak as opposed to a number of others I found online:

Sourdough Silver Dollar Hotcakes recipe
1 cup Sourdough Starter
2 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 eggs
3 tablespoons melted shortening
2 tablespoons granulated sugar

About 12 hours before mealtime, mix Sourdough Starter, flour, milk and salt; let stand in a bowl covered with a towel. Set in a warm place

Just before baking hotcakes, remove 1 cup batter to replenish Starter in crock. To the remaining batter in the bowl, add baking soda, eggs, shortening and sugar. Mix well. Bake cakes the size of silver dollars on a lightly greased, hot griddle. For thinner hotcakes, add more milk.

Makes about 30 hotcakes.

[kallyn]

Originally Posted by estuary

Kallyn, do you just blend the nuts up in a blender or food processor in order to obtian the flour?

This sounds like a nice grain-free way to still enjoy pancakes....: Thanks!

No problem! To make the almond flour, I just take 1 1/4 heaping cups (they deflate a little once they're chopped up) of the crispy almonds I've made, then I whiz them in the food processor until they are the consistency of coarse crumbs. The blender probably wouldn't work for it unless you also put all the other ingredients in with the whole almonds, since blenders need liquid to function properly.

[Tcarwyn]

I have a no grain and no nut recipe ( I am gf and dh is allergic to nuts) The kids love it

roasted and mushed sweet potato ( not yam...the yellow kind not the orange kind)

about 1-2 eggs per cup of potato

1/4 t baking soda per cup of potato

cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, yummie things like that.

Mix, let sit for a few minutes and fry in butter or coconut oil....careful flipping...

Tanya

[kallyn]

Originally Posted by Tcarwyn

I have a no grain and no nut recipe ( I am gf and dh is allergic to nuts) The kids love it

roasted and mushed sweet potato ( not yam...the yellow kind not the orange kind)

about 1-2 eggs per cup of potato

1/4 t baking soda per cup of potato

cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, yummie things like that.

Mix, let sit for a few minutes and fry in butter or coconut oil....careful flipping...

Tanya

Sounds yum! I'll make these for DH this weekend.

[ConsCathMamma]

I really love these blender batter pancakes! I drop thawed frozen mixed berries into them after I pour them on the griddle.

http://cookingnt.blogspot.com/2005/0...-pancakes.html

Blender Batter Pancakes
4-6 servings

1 1/2 cups buttermilk (or other soaking medium)
1 1/2 cups whole grains (I used a combination of long grain brown rice, spelt, and steel-cut oats)
2 tbs olive oil
2 tbs honey
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp baking powder

Combine buttermilk, oil, honey and whole grains in a blender and blend on high for 5 minutes. Add liquid if necessary to keep a vortex constantly going in the blender. Soak overnight or up to 24 hours. Add remaining ingredients and blend briefly. Cook pancakes on a lightly greased griddle on lowest heat until bubbles in the middle of the pancake begin to break. Flip once. This can also be cooked in the waffle maker. I served it with melted butter and maple syrup.

Sue Gregg suggests a combination of any of the following grains- brown rice, millet, kamut, spelt, wheat, seven grain mix, buckwheat (use only 1 cup for 4 servings as it expands), hulled barley, corn, quinoa or oats.

[Feb2003]

Originally Posted by ConsCathMamma

I really love these blender batter pancakes! I drop thawed frozen mixed berries into them after I pour them on the griddle.

I love those, too! I haven't tried that combo of grains...we usually have brown rice and oats on hand...

we like them with frozen blueberries mixed in last or dropped in...not even thawed first

sometimes I give my blender a break and soak the whole grains overnight and then blend once they're soft...do you think this is enough soaking per surface area? it's a lot easier on the blender (and a lot quieter for us)

thanks!

[welldone]

Originally Posted by ConsCathMamma

I really love these blender batter pancakes...

That's a Sue Gregg recipe, right? That's my favorite, too!

My favorite grain combo with that recipe is half oats, half millet. Yum!

[estuary]

How would you go about converting a regular pancake recipe into a more TF friendly one?

would you just soak the grain (ideally with yogurt or buttermilk) overnight and then add the rest of the ingredients the next morning?

I've got this nice pikelet recipe that I'd like to convert...

Pikelets

2 cups flour (I use a mix of 1 1/2 c. whole wheat and 1/2 c. oat flour)
2 tsps baking powder
pinch of salt
½ tsp baking soda
4 tbsp sweetener

mix all these together

2 eggs
1 1/3 cup sour milk (or buttermilk)
2 Tbsp. melted butter

mix these together.

Combine dry and wet ingredients, stir until just right. Cook on medium hot griddle. Traditionally served with whipped cream and preserves or jam.


So if done in a TF way, those directions would be changed so that the eggs, the melted butter, and the leavenings would be added last, yes?

Thanks!

[ConsCathMamma]

Actually, I copied that from the cooking nt site, so, the notes were hers, not mine. But, I do usually use a combo of steel cut oats, wheat berries, and brown rice. I just bought millet for the first time, so, I'll try that soon!

I wondered about soaking before blending as well. I actually assumed that would be how it worked before I read the recipe more carefully. I haven't really bothered to try it that way, though, since it worked so well the first way.