#buttermilk pancakes

All Star Fruit Pancakes

Happy Saturday Tumblrs. It’s chilly here in California, and it’s finally raining! I love the rain. It makes everything so beautiful, the plants are green and happy and everything isn’t so parched anymore. With this cold ass cold weather, I wake up starving nearly every single day. I made these banana, blueberry, pomegranate, mandarin, golden raisin, blue cornmeal and buttermilk pancakes for breakfast, and they were so good. These are pretty healthy too, I used mostly organic ingredients, organic blue corn flour and organic AP flour. These can easily be made gluten free as well, by swapping in garbanzo flour for the AP.  The batter has one mashed banana and is full of blueberries. I topped them with sliced bananas, pomegranate seeds, mandarin oranges, golden raisins, chopped pecans, real maple syrup and a little bit of butter. Buttermilk acts as a leavening agent and makes these extra fluffy. Yogurt works the same way, but if you don’t have either one use whatever you have.

Here’s how to make this easy and delicious breakfast:

Mash 1 banana in a mixing bowl, add 1 egg, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 cup buttermilk (swap for any regular milk or almond milk if you don’t have buttermilk), 1 tsp vanilla, 1 tbsp melted butter or oil, (I used olive oil to add a little savory in all of the sweet). Mix well with a fork.

Sift in ½ cup blue cornmeal, ½ cup all purpose flour, (Or for a Gluten Free option, swap with ½ cup Garbanzo Bean flour), 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp salt. Mix with a fork until just combined, do not over mix. Add ½ cup or more organic frozen blueberries. 

Heat the griddle to high, add a little butter, pour ½ to ¾ cup sized pancake batter using a measuring cup. Cook pancakes on first side until bubbles form, flip and continue cooking another few minutes. Top with all sorts of fruit and syrup. Strawberries would be great on this, Yum! 

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Classic Buttermilk Pancakes 

Breakfast classic! 

Ingredients 

2 cups all-purpose flour 

2 cups whole-fat buttermilk

2 large eggs 

4 tbsp melted butter, slightly cooled 

1 ½ tbsp granulated sugar 

¼ tsp nutmeg

½ tsp cinnamon 

½ tsp baking soda 

1 ½ tsp baking powder 

2 tsp vanilla extract 

Dash of salt 

Zest from ½ lemon, optional

NOTE: The main thing to remember is that the ratio of flour:buttermilk:eggs is always 1:1:1

Directions 

Preheat your griddle or skillet to medium heat.

In a large bowl, sift together the dry ingredients and set aside. 

In another bowl, combine the wet ingredients.

Make a small well into the center of the dry ingredients and pour in your wet ingredients.

Using a silicone spatula or whisk, combine all of the ingredients until just combined. 

NOTE: Be careful to not over-mix the batter or else the gluten will develop in the flour and you will not have light and airy pancakes. 

Let the batter rest for a few minutes. 

Generously coat your skillet/griddle with butter or non-stick cooking spray. 

Using a 1/3 cup measure, scoop out your batter onto your cooking surface and cook until golden brown on each side, roughly 3 minutes per side. 

Serve while hot with butter and maple syrup.

Enjoy!