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Spelt Flour Pancakes

The Finished Product with Greek Yogurt and local Honey

One of my favorite breakfasts is pancakes, especially after an early long run on Saturday morning.  Even then though, I’m not fired up about all the processed and refined flour, so I’ve been experimenting with other options for my pancake fix.  Here’s my latest creation using spelt flour (made to server me and 3 hungry children, you can decrease or increase proportionately).

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Organic Brown Rice Waffles with Mixed Berries

The less than desireable results of my brown rice flour pancakes.
One of my Brown Rice Flour waffles. My fruit sort of clumped up in one area, but they ended up being really good and a different twist on traditional waffles

One of my favorite post run meals is pancakes. There’s just nothing like coming in from a long run after getting up at an insanely early hour (on a weekend of all days!) and whipping up a big stack of pancakes with blueberries, raspberries or whatever fresh berries we happen to have on hand.

So in my continual quest to improve my nutrition, I thought it might be a good idea to make my pancakes out of something other than Bisquick. So after perusing Whole Foods for different flour options, I decided to give it a go with organic brown rice flour with interesting results!

First lesson in this project is that brown rice flour is not all purpose flour. I tried to make pancake mix similar to what I’d do with wheat flour:

  • 2 Cups flour
  • 1 Tablespoons of Baking Powder
  • 1 Teaspoons of Salt
  • 1/3 Cup Butter (unsalted)
  • 1 Cup Milk
  • 2 Eggs
  • about a cup of Frozen Mixed Berries
The less than desireable results of my brown rice flour pancakes.

The results were less than spectacular. The brown rice flour had a grainier texture and totally stuck to the (well greased) pan. The consistency was notably more runny than my regular flour recipe and that’s probably because of the lack of gluten, but I need to figure that one out.

So I opted for plan B, waffles. Again working from the recipe that I know (off the back of the Bisquick box), I added some Canola Oil (2 Tbs) and an extra egg, thinking that might help the consistency a little more when cooking.

The mixture was still pretty soupy, but did cook up pretty well in the waffle iron. After topping my waffles with some Greek Yogurt and local honey, I have to say that they were really good. I’ll probably try and refine this recipe a bit, but it’s one that I’m definitely going to try again!