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
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 !
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.
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!
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 !!
You have amazing recipes! Thanks 🙂
thanks ! I follow heaps of wonderful healthy people and find so many good things to share with you all !!
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:))
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
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
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) 🙂
Making these yummy green pancakes for breakfast this morning.
thanks for the great recipes
thanks for all your support Lara 🙂
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!
Yum! that sounds gorgeous 🙂
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.
I don’t think I have ever cooked with amaranth flour – what’s it like?
Can you substitute SR flour for the spelt flour??
definitely Sam 🙂
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?
Try all spelt Kristina! 🙂
Oh great idea! Thank you! Will be making them on the weekend now!