Variations on a pancake theme

Nick and I love to play around with recipes to make the ultimate recipe.  Here's what we did
with these superb gluten-free pancakes. Oops, we added wheat and gluten. If you need gluten-free, go back to that other recipe (linked above).  If you don't, check out the new one.

Dry ingredients
3 cups oat flour (you can grind from rolled or steel cut oats)
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup buckwheat flour (you can grind from whole groats)
1 cup Pepitas (grind these last of the dry ingredients)
1 cup flax
3 tablespoons Baking Powder
3 tablespoons Vital Wheat Gluten

Wet ingredients
1 banana (could replace with a 1/4 - 1/2 cup maple syrup)
4 cups soy milk (could be almond milk or chocolate soy milk)
1-2 cups of water as necessary to thin the batter (ours was really thick)

Mix all the dry ingredients.  Blend the banana and 1 cup of the non-dairy milk of your choice.  Add the banana and non-dairy milk mixture to the dry ingredients and then add the rest of the liquid and mix.  Have a pre-heated pan ready to go for the pancake making fun!

  

The recipe calculator really liked the recipe.  It never gives A's, but this one got an A-.  About the recipe, it said:

• No cholesterol
• Very low in sodium
• High in dietary fiber
• High in phosphorus

And then, I added the FINAL ingredient (after I got that A-)--a few dark chocolate (vegan) chips.  Not too many, just enough so there's a little hint of melted chocolate every few bites in your pancake.  When you add chocolate, there's no need for syrup and that means less sugar.  Chocolate chip pancakes make me happy!  When I first met Nick, he would make chocolate chip pancakes for me on Sunday mornings.  We continue the tradition with the girls.

If you want to keep them super healthy, I'd suggest adding cinnamon and/or fruit and skipping the chocolate chips. 

 

I think we made about 28 pancakes.  We ended up with 19 left over pancakes; I'm not sure how many we ate the first day.  We ate them all in 3 days (but there are 4 pancake fiends over here).  They were in the refrigerator and then microwaved. Two of the 4 fiends like the pancakes plain and two prefer a little peanut butter on top.