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Here’s 3 healthy pancake recipes to start your weekend off right. These delicious recipes via The Huffington Post are sweet, simple, and sure to refuel you for an afternoon surf session. Enjoy!
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Banana Protein Pancakes
Ingredients:
3 bananas
3 eggs
1/2 cup almond butter (or nut butter of choice)
2 teaspoons cinnamon.
Directions:
-Preheat skillet on stove burner at medium high heat.
-Combine ingredients in a blender until the mixture becomes a batter.
-Use coconut oil to grease the skillet and pour batter into three to four-inch pancakes.
-Cook pancakes for two to three minutes per side and flip two to three times.
-Serve topped with some grass-fed butter, cinnamon and choice toppings.
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Jelly Coconut Flour Pancakes
Ingredients:
1/4 cup coconut flour
1 tablespoon gelatin
4 pastured eggs at room temperature
1 heaping teaspoon softened grass-fed butter or coconut oil
1/2 cup organic coconut milk
coconut oil for the pan.
Directions:
-Begin by heating a seasoned cast iron skillet or enamel skillet over medium heat.
-Whisk together the coconut flour and gelatin. While stirring add in eggs and beat until an even paste forms.
-Stir in the butter or coconut oil until mixed well, then add in coconut milk.
-Cook the pancakes in coconut oil. Cook until the edges and center start to look opaque, then flip. Smaller pancakes will be easier to flip.
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Classic Almond Flour Pancakes with Berry Toppings
Ingredients:
3/4 cup coconut milk
2 tablespoons white vinegar
1 cup almond flour
2 tablespoons honey or maple syrup
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
2 tablespoons melted coconut oil cooking spray.
Directions:
-Mix milk and vinegar together in a medium bowl then set aside for five minutes.
-In different bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
-Whisk eggs and coconut oil into the milk and vinegar mixture.
-Pour the flour mixture into wet ingredients and whisk until the texture becomes smooth.
-Coat a large skillet with cooking spray and place over medium heat. Pour batter onto the skillet, forming three to four-inch pancakes. When bubbles appear on surface, flip over. Cook until pancake is light brown.
For berry toppings:
-Mash desired berries in a bowl and add in two teaspoons of coconut oil and two teaspoons of maple syrup.
-Place mixture in sauce pan over low to medium heat until it reduces down.
-Pour over pancakes.
