Happy New Year!
I wish you all a blessed Year, filled with wonderful times along your loved ones! And last but not least, I wish you health! Because you know....not always money can buy our health and well being...
So let's keep an eye on our health and especially, our children's health! They need a good start and day-by-day eating habits can actually help with maintaing an optimal health! Less sugar, less proceesed foods are just an example to mention.
Try your best and do some little changes here and then and I'm sure over time, these will be valuable.
It's been some time since I last made pancakes for my little one, though he was a pancake addict. Now its not that much but he still loves pancakes. Its just that I dont cook them as often as I did before.
And this time I wanted to cut the flour, milk and sugar. I usually do this, so actually its not a big deal but still...no milk, no sugar, no flour.
Instead I replaced plain white flour with coconut flour and a bit of oat flour. So this recipe is Gluten free.
I always cut sugar in pancakes, there's no way me adding sugar in the pancakes made for Caleb. Yes, sometimes there's a banana in there replacing the sugar or pumpkin puree, sugar-free homemade apple sauce, frozen berries. But that's it.
Ingredients for this recipe:
- 1 banana (mashed) π
- 3 eggs π₯π₯π₯
- 1/4 cup plant based milk ( I used coconut milk) π₯
- 1 Tsp ACV (apple cider vinegar) π
- 1/3 cup coconut flour π₯₯
- 2 Tbsp oat flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 Tbsp cinnamon powder
- a little bit of salt π§
Instructions:
You'll need two bowls.
In one bowl add the wet ingredients: mashed banana, eggs, milk and vinegar.
I forgot to mention, Caleb helped preparing the pancakes. I've mentioned this already in my last few posts, he became really interested in cooking and he often offers "help" in the kitchen. So he tried mashing the banana, I ended up helping him ofc. And then he helped mixing the dry ingredients.
In another bowl mix dry ingredients: the two flours, salt, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
Add dry ingredients to the other bowl and stir well until combined.
You can use a little bit of butter, oil or coconut butter to grease your skillet and then start doing the pancakes. Add a litte amount of batter in the skillet and form the pancakes using a spoon. Flip after a few minutes on the other side and remove when finished. You'll know when they're ready.
I love making pancakes. They are nutritious, nourishing, easy to make and actually you can store them in the fridge for the next day. I admit I like the idea of having pancakes in the fridge because my little one often asks for snacks and these are just perfect. I mean pancakes in general. They contain whole ingredients like eggs, (vegetable) milk, fruits, veggies (spinach, carrot) or flour (healthy alternatives: coconut, almond, oat) so why not?
Instead of having store bought biscuits why not having a few pancakes?
I tested many recipes of pancakes with different types of flour like: oat flour, millet flour, almond flour, buckwheat flour, coconut flower. Every recipe was great and I dont find a reason using plain white flour for making pancakes. I admit that SOMETIMES I do use white flour but thats not really my go to recipe. Having so many healthy alternatives, I like to experiment and find the ones that we enjoy.
I hope you like the recipe, these pancakes were really good.
Healthy and Delicious π₯
and don't forget,
Healthy kids are Happy kids!
love missdeli π
I had bookmarked this page for the recipe. I love that these are gluten-free too, the texture for the coconut floor is too dry for me do you have some workaround with that?
I SO hear you! I'm not a fan of coconut flour myself for the very same reason: it is dry. But for some reason, these pancakes weren't dry. At all. The original recipe I got inspired from was saying that apple cider vinegar and baking soda is the secret for these pancakes. That their reaction would make them fluffy and helping coconut flour 'rise', well something like that. Badically, not making these dry.
But I added oat flour as well, so maybe that counts.
I have tried many pancakes, biscuits, muffins etc with coconut flour and not always liked them. But this one was great! Moist, no dry.
Too complex haha. But it is worth trying if it can eliminate the dryness of coco flour that will be lovely. I thought at first that it is just me good thing it isn't the case!
No No! Coconut flour is problematic, in my opinion (and yours hehe). Once I did some "coconut biscuits". They were so hard and dry, they ended up in the trash instantly. Other times,I tried coconut banana bread. It was mushy and dry in the same time, I dont know how to explain it. Still, it was good only to throw it....
Maybe you should try these, I dont know how it works for you. I dont have any other advices here, I'm a noobie myself at cooking with coconut flour. But I want to try more recipes based on this ingredient because I love coconut for its gluten free, low carb and fiber intake properties.
cheers from Romania!! π
Looks good! I always think of the Jack Johnson song whenever I hear βBanana Pancakesβ
Happy New Year!
Hey hey! π
Happy New Year Jeff!
Its a cute song, I guess. I heard it twice already hehe. Maybe I'll think about it too, next time doing Banana Pancakes π₯π
Oh there's a lot of healthy flour alternative. I haven't heard those terms here. All I know here is a rice flour, glutinous rice flour, cake flour. Are they different from cassava starch too? Or it is like flour too?
It really looks delicious and so healthy. I am not familiar with coconut flour too.
Cassava flour is one of the best that exists so in case you're using this, you're lucky! Rice flour also is great and its a good alternative replacing the gluten flours. Yes, the one I mentioned are different than cassava but not that different.
I am myself experimenting unsing coconut flour but here I can find it easily so its a good alternative to bake with.
I can't find cassava flour in the market. When my father is still alive, he is the one making cassava flour to be used to mix with banana. If not, they are using glutinous rice flour for better result.
Ohh sorry. I understood the opposite. I had to google Glutinous rice flour. It's my first time heard about it. Cassava flour is similar with tapioca flour or manioc.
Glutinous rice flour is from the glutinous rice or the sticky rice.
Yes, I know that now! I did a little research. π
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And that looks yummy . i love food with banana as the main ingredient π
Thank you Jane! I think bananas are great for kids recipes, so I use them quite often especially in pancakes and banana/apple bread and muffins. Ohh and smoothies too!
I approve, this recipe is nice! 𧑠My Mom cook them from time to time - results are mild, delicate and tasty.
Honestly, I love Pancakes! No matter the type. But when they're delicate and mild, YUM! π
Delicious
Thank you!
Gona jot down the recipe to give it a try. just look so yummy the pancake.
Looks yummy