Jul
12
2009
A healthy pancake recipe
Author: MarciMy daughter is a picky eater, but she loves pancakes. Like any mom with a picky eater, I am constantly looking for ways to incorporate healthy into what she likes to eat, and not just little bits of things, although I suppose that is a little better than none. She recently decided she likes avocado/guacamole and turkey, cheese, and guacamole sandwiches. Her palate is expanding, which is a good thing. Still, I want to ensure she gets more…even if I have to trick her. 
My healthy pancake recipe:
- 1/4 c. organic blanched almond meal (or regular, but blanched is sweeter and lighter texture)
- 1/4 c. organic flax seed meal mixed with chia seed meal (you can buy whole seeds and grind both together)
- 3/4 c. organic flour
- 1 egg
- 1 c. raw milk (you can replace this with coconut/almond/soy milk)
- 2 TBSP raw honey
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 TBSP coconut oil
- 1 tsp vanilla
Mix dry material in a bowl. Mix egg, milk, and vanilla together. Combine dry mix with egg mixture and add the rest of the ingredients. Stir until mixed well. Ladle out onto preheated griddle. Pour warmed pure maple syrup over buttered pancakes and serve.
Makes: 15-20 small, but filling, pancakes (I can only eat about 3-4 sand dollar size pancakes.)
Some of you may remember that in the 80s-90s coconut oil was considered bad. Well, like so many things of that era, they were wrong. (Other things that were wrong from that era: mullets, leggings — which are making a comeback — Noooo! — big hair — AAAAAAA! — to name a few.)
The efficacy of coconut oil includes, but is not limited to:
- lowering cholesterol
- skin
- digestion
- heart disease
For more information on coconut oil, you can read about it here.
By the way, I have found that if I make funky-shaped pancakes and let my daughter decide what the shapes are, she loves it. Oh, and she enjoys helping me make them. (Another way to teach math. )
July 12th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Sounds delicious, Marci! I have a picky eater too. Drives me crazy. sigh…
July 12th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
It is delicious. I’ve even tried blueberries in them, but she won’t touch them because they look different than the normal pancake. (sigh) However, you can hide a lot of things in pancakes. (grin)
July 13th, 2009 at 4:48 am
Aw, I miss the big hair of the 80’s. I just watched a Facts of Life show on Bio and the hair on those girls went from 70’s to 80’s in a big way! LOL
Thanks for the recipe, I love pancakes!
July 13th, 2009 at 7:16 am
OMG that sounds delic! Now if only there were a decent health food/natural store within an hour of here. Thanks for sharing, Marci.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Jenna,
That big hair was just frightening. It seems the big hairdos from the 60s are coming back. I cringe every time I see some celebrity poofing up their hair. It looks ridiculous to me.
Barbara,
Some of this stuff you can find in your local store. You can also buy almond meal and flax/chia meal, as well as coconut oil, from the internet. It’s cheaper to buy the flax and chia seeds and grind your own meal from them. It does take much of the seeds to make quite a bit of meal. If you have a coffee grinder, that works perfectly for seeds. You can probably buy the blanched almond meal online too.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:53 am
That should read: It doesn’t take much of the seeds… (sigh)
July 13th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Hi Marci,
I had some pumpkin pancakes at IHOP once that were so good.
There were a lot of things wrong with the 80s. What about the big shoulder pads?
July 13th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Those are trying to make a comeback too. Scary, isn’t it.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Thanks for posting about this, I would like to read more about this topic.
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