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Healthiest pancakes EVER …. they’re green !!

February 21, 2012 · 26 Comments


Healthiest Pancakes Ever They're Green!

 

Thanks to Facebook, I found out it was Pancake Day (or Shrove Tuesday) today ! Never wanting to miss an excuse for pancakes, I decided to whip up a batch of our favourite pancakes from one of the best healthy recipe blogs around, Health Food Lover.

Of course, you know I never make a recipe the way it tells me to. I am a serial tweaker. So here is my version of Michelle’s fabulous Green (Spinach) Pancakes recipe.

 

Healthiest Pancakes Ever…. They’re Green!

So, this is what you need:

3 organic eggs

1 large handful of washed baby spinach

1 and a 1/2 large bananas

1/2 cup almond meal

1/2 cup wholemeal spelt flour

1 tablespoon chia seeds

coconut oil for cooking

to serve:

vanilla yoghurt or cashew cream

blueberries

healthiest pancakes ever... they're green!

So, this is how you do it:

Whizz the heck out of the spinach and eggs in a food processor, blender or thermomix. You don’t want any identifiable green leaves or the kids might freak out !


healthiest pancakes ever... they're green!

Chuck the banana in and whizz again. Stir in the flour, chia seeds and almond meal.

For those of you with a thermomix, I made the almond meal in the thermy, then added the spinach, banana and eggs and blitzed on speed 10 for 20 seconds, scraping the bowl. Then I added the spelt flour and chia and mixed on reverse, speed 5 for about 10 seconds or until it was combined.

healthiest pancakes ever... they're green!

Heat up the coconut oil in a pan (medium high heat) and fling in tablespoons of pancake mix. Turn when little bubbles appear.

Serve with the vanilla yoghurt on top and the blueberries. Do not tell children there is spinach in their afternoon snack….. they will never know!! There is no spinach flavour, just delicious banana!

healthiest pancakes ever... they're green!

Well, okay, my New Age Natural Girl, did twig something funny was afoot because they were GREEN, but she loved them. So did my New Age Natural Boy – none left for Dad !

Some tips:

* you can make these pancakes fully gluten free by replacing the flour with almond meal

* you don’t need to add sugar to the mix if you are serving it with fruit and yoghurt, but if you aren’t you might appreciate a tablespoon or two of rapadura sugar in it

* don’t let this mixture sit for too long before cooking as chia seeds gel up

Happy Pancake Day !!

 

 

 

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Comments

  1. raggedblossomhandmade says

    February 21, 2012 at 8:41 pm

    You have amazing recipes! Thanks 🙂

    Reply
  2. naturalnewagemum says

    February 21, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    thanks ! I follow heaps of wonderful healthy people and find so many good things to share with you all !!

    Reply
  3. Charlotte Perry says

    March 3, 2012 at 12:20 pm

    These pancakes sound so healthy & delicious!! I hope I can find everything here in PA. Thank you. PS – you did a great job on your blog:))

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  4. naturalnewagemum says

    March 3, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    Hi Charlotte… thanks for your kind words ! So lovely of you. Where is PA? You can substitute most things. Let me know if you need help ! xx

    Reply
  5. Kellie Fraser says

    July 5, 2012 at 5:37 pm

    Wow, I am so making them, thanks heaps. Also where was the picture taken that is your blog picture? That isnt White Eagle Lodge is it? Kellie

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      July 5, 2012 at 5:44 pm

      Hi Kellie – let me know how you go. My blog picture was taken at The Crystal Castle (I wrote a blog post about it – take a look under Family Holidays) 🙂

      Reply
  6. lara busch says

    January 25, 2013 at 7:35 am

    Making these yummy green pancakes for breakfast this morning.

    thanks for the great recipes

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      January 25, 2013 at 9:27 am

      thanks for all your support Lara 🙂

      Reply
  7. Dale LF says

    February 19, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    Yummy! I just made them only I used one banana and a handful of blueberries as I didn’t have enough banana… and I added some goji berries when I made my almond meal… They turned out great… even with natural yoghurt 😀 After school snack for us!

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      February 19, 2013 at 4:23 pm

      Yum! that sounds gorgeous 🙂

      Reply
  8. Mumma of 4 says

    May 24, 2013 at 10:13 am

    Yum! Finally made these. I’m a huge tweaker of recipes too, so I also added 1/2 cup of Amaranth Flour and was delish.

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      May 24, 2013 at 1:24 pm

      I don’t think I have ever cooked with amaranth flour – what’s it like?

      Reply
  9. Sam says

    November 20, 2013 at 11:01 pm

    Can you substitute SR flour for the spelt flour??

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    • Natural New Age Mum says

      November 21, 2013 at 9:32 am

      definitely Sam 🙂

      Reply
  10. Kristina says

    March 10, 2014 at 10:50 pm

    I love the sound of these pancakes and would love to make them for my son to take to school. But he attends a nut free school. What can I use in place of the almond meal?

    Reply
    • Natural New Age Mum says

      March 11, 2014 at 11:13 am

      Try all spelt Kristina! 🙂

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      • Kristina says

        March 13, 2014 at 3:34 pm

        Oh great idea! Thank you! Will be making them on the weekend now!

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