Banana bread almond flour pancakes taste just like banana bread, but are refined sugar-free, gluten-free, protein-packed and healthy!
Have you ever have a silent and delicious crush on someone?
You see him or her from across the room in class and pray your eyes don’t meet because once your bright-eyed smitten gaze is discovered, you won’t be able to stare like an insect headed toward a bug zapper anymore?
You don’t dare say a word to your crush for fear you will want to say every single thing ever and it will come out like a jigsaw puzzle.
Perhaps you try to set your crush up with your best friend, because there’s NO WAY someone that dope (heck yeah, I come from a hippy town!) will give you the time of day but due to your selfless nature, you want nothing but happiness for your deliciously silent crunchy crush?
Even though you’ve never exchanged words, you have the confidence of a bull in a china shop that your best friend and your crush will go prancing off into the sunset and they will certainly name their first born after you!
That’s the way I feel about these pancakes.
Silent stupor.
What sane person compares infatuation to a stack of pancakes?
Don’t answer that…
It may be entirely possible that I’m the only one in this room who has ever had a deliciously silent crush, but this works out to your benefit, because here I am, giving you my stack of happy and by golly, you’ve got some prancing to do!
Here’s where we talk about health and…moistness.
YEAH! These almond flour pancakes are full of protein and are naturally sweetened, making them a very healthful breakfast. almond meal and brown rice flour make for a fluffy pancake that you would never know is gluten-free, and the bananas keep the recipe moist (in spite of the fact that everyone seems to dislike the word, “moist”, I have to admit I kind of like it.
Moist, moist, moist. That was fun.) and sweet!
From my infatuated heart to yours. From my silent admiration to your warm embrace. From my…okay, let’s cut the crap and make some pancakes!
More Healthy Gluten-Free Pancake Recipes:
- Paleo Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
- Coconut Flour Zucchini Pancakes
- Lemon Coconut Flour Pancakes for Two
- Paleo Avocado Pancakes
- Paleo Carrot Cake Pancakes
Ingredients
- 2 ripe bananas, mashed
- ½ cup coconut milk, full-fat from the can
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup brown rice flour
- ½ cup almond meal/flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ cup walnuts, chopped
Instructions
- Mash the bananas in a mixing bowl.
- Add the eggs, coconut milk, and vanilla extract and whisk together.
- In a separate bowl, combine the rest of the ingredients and stir together.
- Pour the wet banana mixture into the bowl with the dry flour mixture and stir well to incorporate.
- Heat enough oil in a skillet to coat the bottom and heat to medium-high temperature.
- Measure ¼ cup of the banana pancake batter and pour it into the skillet.
- Cook until the sides of the pancake begin to firm up, about 2 minutes.
- Flip to the other side and cook another minute or two until pancake is cooked all the way through.
- Repeat with remaining batter!
- Serve with butter and agave nectar or pure maple syrup.
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Stella
Saturday 13th of April 2024
Hi Julia,
Any replacements for the brown rice flour? Or can I double the almond flour? I have everything else on hand. This could be a go for tomorrow morning with these 2 ripe bananas staring at me. Thank you.
Julia
Tuesday 16th of April 2024
Hi Stella! If you have gluten-free all-purpose flour or tapioca flour on hand, either of those options work better than more almond flour because of their starchiness. The goal is to get a little starch in there so that the pancakes flip easier and have better texture. Nevertheless, the pancakes can be made with all almond flour but it may take closer to 1.5 cups. I'd base it on the way the batter looks :) Also, as a heads up, almond flour pancakes require more cooking time than regular pancakes, so be sure to give them plenty of time in the skillet. Let me know how it goes! xo
wanda
Monday 4th of May 2020
it looks yum... problem is i dont have rice flour..can i use all almond flour??
thanks
Elizabeth A Murray
Wednesday 1st of August 2018
Can you substitute something else for the rice flour? Doesn't have to be gf.. can I use regular flour, coconut flour or all almond flour?
Trudy
Friday 23rd of August 2019
I was going to ask the same thing about subbing out the rice flour but because a family member cannot have any grains. I so want to try these but would defeat the purpose with rice flour.
MeCooks
Sunday 21st of January 2018
Looks very tasty. Will be trying it at home.
http://www.mecooks.com
Stef
Thursday 18th of January 2018
These are so good. Eating my little stack as I type! My almond flour is quite mealy (coarser texture I think) so that changes the texture a bit but they are SO reminiscent of banana bread and I LOVE having a higher fat/protein option for breakfast that is warm, delightful, and dairy free. I made the almond flour pancakes yesterday...think I'm going to continue on this theme :) .
Julia
Thursday 18th of January 2018
Yeeeees, I'm so happy to hear it, Steph! Thank you for the sweet note! xo