Welcome to week one of The Pancake Project! Each Friday, I’ll be posting a different pancake recipe to get you geared up for a relaxing pancake weekend. When given the opportunity, I enjoy making big healthful breakfasts on slow weekend mornings while drinking my weight in coffee. Pancake weekends are my favorite weekends and now I’m sharing them with you!
These aren’t going to be any ol’ pancakes. I will be using various flours and nut meals to create a magnificent array of flavors, textures and health benefits. If you have never tried your hand at a coconut flour or almond meal pancake, you are in the exact spot you need to be. If you have been holding yourself back from taking your favorite coffee shop by storm and ordering up a breakfast pastry the size of a cargo ship, my pancakes will be your sponsor. You can call them up any hour any day and tell them you’re about to fall off the wagon. They’ll listen. They’ll talk you off of your pastry cliff. You can New Year’s Resolution your face off with my pancakes.
When it comes to project-ing, it’s best to be prepared. Here’s what you’ll need for The Pancake Project:
- A grocery store with a natural food section where you can find a variety of flours/meals (such as Bob’s Red Mill or Trader Joe’s)
- Time on your side (cheers to the freakin weekend)
- Love in your heart and health on the mind
ToleranceWillingness to share with others
First up: Oat flour. Orange. Cranberry. Zesty, Tangy, Naturally sweet. It’s a fiesta in your mouth. Oat flour can help lower your cholesterol and also regulate your blood sugar. Oats are a complex carbohydrate, which means they’re slow burning – you won’t be hungry 5 seconds after eating these bad boys as they will provide you sustained energy. You can keep your pastry leash on while enjoying a plate of the Pancake Project.
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1 tbl grapeseed oil (or oil of choice)
- 2 tbl orange juice
- zest of 1 orange
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries, blanched
- 1/8 tsp salt
Instructions
- Heat water in a tea kettle until boiling.
- Put the dried cranberries in a small bowl and pour boiling water on top of them. Allow them to sit for 10 minutes until softened and puffy.
- Strain the water from the cranberries and set cranberries aside.
- In a mixing bowl, lightly beat the egg and add the almond milk, grapeseed oil, orange juice, orange zest and vanilla extract. Stir until combined.
- Add the oat flour, salt and baking powder to the wet mixture and mix just until combined. Careful not to over-mix as over-mixing oat flour can make the pancakes very dense.
- Add the blanched cranberries and mix.
- Heat a large non-stick skillet just above medium heat. Add a couple teaspoons of oil to the skillet.
- Measure ¼ cup of the pancake batter and pour it into the skillet. (My skillet fit three pancakes at a time).
- Cook until edges firm up, about 2 minutes, then flip to the other side. Cook until golden brown on each side.
- Repeat with all of the batter.
- Serve with honey!
*Note: if you have a gluten-intolerance, proceed with caution. While oats are gluten-free by nature, often times oat producers grow wheat along-side oats, which causes some wheat to get into the oats. If you have a gluten-intolerance, make your own oat flour by blending Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free Oats in a food processor or blender.*
These are beautiful Julia!!
claire @ the realistic nutritionist recently posted..Easy Mini Blueberry Pies
Thanks lady! I hope you try them out, they’re delicious! I fed them to my boyfriend and his brother this morning and they got the man stamp of approval
I love the pancake project already!!! This is a brilliant idea. My weekends are totally lacking in the pancake department. This is just what we need to spice things up around here! I love that you are using different flours and awesome flavor combinations. I for one am really excited for the upcoming pancake recipes!!!
Yaaaaaaaaay! I’m so glad I’m not the only one who’s excited about pancakes! I figured it was time to upload my pancake tinkering into the world wide web…if there’s one item I’ve spent a lot of time with, it’s the pancake
Have a great weekend, dear!
mmmm! Pancake me in the face, please! Fun series!
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Katie | The Hill Country Cook recently posted..Brazilian Corn Cookies
you are my hero! My weekends need more pancakes and sweatpants. And I’m so excited to try these new flours with you, you got me to try coconut and almond flour, and grapeseed oil for that matter. Bring on the pancakes!!
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Yippy! I’m excited to have lazy pancake weekends with you too! I bet your hubs will love them as well – Garrett pretends that he only eats manly food but in reality, he loves the pancake
Perfect timing – I was saying literally just a few hours ago how much I missed pancakes! Now I don’t even need to go googling – this recipe will be immediately emailed to my chief pancake maker. Thank you
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This is absolute visual treat !! I am sure this must have tasted fabulous! http://cosmopolitancurrymania.blogspot.in/
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I love this project idea! Pancakes are a breakfast staple at my house, but I haven’t made them with alternate flours before. Excited to try some of your recipes
I love the orange and cranberrry combo. I can’t wait to see what types of pancakes you come up with. Very clever idea!
Bernadette @ Now Stir It Up recently posted..Roasted Shallot and Garlic Yogurt Dip
Those look gorgeous!! Now I’m all intrigued because I have all these different flours to use up…. hmmmm
Katie | The Hill Country Cook recently posted..Brazilian Corn Cookies
I love cranberry and orange together, beautiful pancakes!
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Oh my goodness, my husband is going to lose his mind when I make these! His favorite muffin ever is cranberry orange, which I made gluten free after our daughter was diagnosed with celiac, but I never thought of making a pancake with those flavors. Brilliant! Thank you so much for this awesome recipe.
-Dana
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Your husband and I have our favorite muffin in common…I could do cranberry/orange muffins any ol’ day, they’re so tasty! Thanks so much for your thoughtful compliments and let me know how your pancakes turn out!!