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) 🍌
- 3 eggs 🥚🥚🥚
- 1/4 cup plant based milk ( I used coconut milk) 🥛
- 1 Tsp ACV (apple cider vinegar) 🍎
- 1/3 cup coconut flour 🥥
- 2 Tbsp oat flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 Tbsp cinnamon powder
- a little bit of salt 🧂
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 🥞
and don't forget,
Healthy kids are Happy kids!
love missdeli 💜