Homemade Pancakes

My family loves pancakes! But when we have them it's from scratch. I feel more comfortable serving them to my family when I know what actually went into them. And as I tell my girls "When we can pronounce all the ingredients!"

So today the recipe I have for you is one that I make for my family. You can add extra things to change the flavor a bit. It's simple, straight forward, and can probably be made with things that you have in your own kitchen.

When making the pancakes I usually use 1 cup of flour for every person that we are feeding. That usually gives us some left over pancakes that we freeze. The recipe that I am giving you should feed 4 people.

Susen’s Homemade Pancakes

-4 cups of flour (I usually use half whole wheat and half unbleached all purpose).

-8 teaspoons baking powder (I use aluminum free varieties like Rumford)

-1 teaspoon salt

-8 tablespoons canola oil (can use any cooking oil except olive oil due to the strong taste).

-4 cups soy milk (you can use milk or water for this or a combination of both).

I mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together. Then gently stir in the canola oil, and soy milk. I add it a cup at a time. You may need another ½ a cup of water or so for the batter, it depends on how thick it is. That is why I add it a cup at a time. Remember with pancakes you don’t want to stir the batter a lot. The more you stir the less fluffy they will be.

Have a hot skillet ready for the pancakes. Cook until nicely browned on each side.

Enjoy!

All purpose flour. I like to use unbleached flour.

 

Whole wheat flour. This batch is more coarse ground but you can use
whatever you have. Often I use the "Pie and pastry" whole wheat flour
that is very finely ground.

Mixing up the dry ingredients.

Organic sugar

Pancakes cooking in a nice hot skillet.

All done and ready to eat. Yum!

Some favorite add ins: chocolate chips, chopped nuts (pecans are one of our favorites!) peanut butter chips, coconut, blueberries, the options are only limited by your taste. One of our children likes to have sliced bananas and pecans on their pancakes.  To make them like this I simply put the batter into the pan, then slice bananas and drop them on top of the batter and sprinkle on nuts. Then flip the pancake like you normally would when ready. Delicious!

Some healthy toppings: homemade applesauce (will cover how to make this in another post when we get to applesauce making season. J ), pureed peaches (take a quart of peaches, we use home canned, put them and the juice in the blender and blend until smooth, thickened fruit, peanut butter, almond butter, or maple syrup, homemade/store bought jams or jellies. Again, just like the add ins, there are many options for things that you can put on your pancakes.

This is like everything else on this blog. Don’t get caught up in feeling like you can’t make it because you don’t have “homemade” or exactly our list of add-ins or toppings. This is a “no guilt” blog. Take what you can use and enjoy it. The point is to make something healthy and delicious for your family. Let me know what you think after you try them! J