Loving all the love for our lemon cardamom hazelnut waffles!
Many of you seemed intrigued about using hazelnut flour. We have a lot of recipe using it, like in our individual carob cake, mini cardamom donuts, and unbaked chocolate biscotti. We love the flavor it gives plus love the nutty texture! Let us know if you give hazelnut flour a try and how you used it.
Today we got another recipe for you guys! We experimented with a new pancake recipe this past weekend.
Our take on grain free pancakes.
We know there are many different views on “grain free” and what it means, etc. But according to this grain free site, many things we use are grain free. But again like most things, find your own view on things with how it works with you.
Since we already had hazelnut flour made up, we used it instead of almond flour for our pancakes.
Making these grain free pancakes was super easy. We had a couple different skillets cooking as we had a lot of pancakes to cook, plus we were all hungry to eat.
We made some whipped bananas for a FUN topping along with traditional maple syrup. Basically we just threw about 1-2 bananas into our Vita-Mix and whipped till blended.
Plate full of pancakes! Life doesn’t get much better than that.
We were so pleased with how these pancakes and whipped bananas came together so nicely.
Purely Twins Grain Free Pancakes
*we doubled the recipe so it could feed 5 adults, so if you make these pancakes and not feeding 5 you will have extra pancakes you can freeze for later, or half the recipe to make less.
This recipe was inspired by our lemon almond pancakes (which are vegan)
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups hazelnut flour/meal
- 1/2 cup arrowroot starch
- 1/4 cup flax meal
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 20 drops of liquid stevia (or 2 tbsp sugar )
- 3 whole eggs
- 1 1/4 cups coconut buttermilk (place 1 cup + 2btsp or so of coconut milk into a measuring cup and add 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar, let sit for 10 minutes)
- 4 tbsp coconut oil, liquid
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Directions:
Make sure all of your ingredients are at room temperature before beginning.
Place dry ingredients into a bowl. Make your coconut buttermilk and let sit for at least 10 minutes. Get your skillet heating up with a little coconut oil or butter.
Add you 3 eggs to your pancake batter and whisk together as you add in your buttermilk. Once combined add in coconut oil and whisk till blended.
Scoop pancake batter onto hot skillet and let cook. When you start to see bubbles and the sides form, flip and let let cook a few more minutes.
Enjoy!
We whipped up some bananas for a nice topping.
Twins Question: What do you think of grain free? What do you think of the new trend starting? We find it funny how everyone is doing grain free recipes, just like how gluten free trend started happening.
till next time,
xoxo
Lori and Michelle
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love grain free recipes because grans contribute to my candida. however it is so disappointing they almost all have eggs in them. i’m sad because can use fewer and fewer of your recipes.
Bitt, promise we are still going to be making VEGAN recipes, we will make more pancakes that are grain free plus vegan
I love grain free pancakes. I normally use almond meal, but I need to try the hazelnut meal. I bet it’s amazing! These look perfect!
Sarena (The Non-Dairy Queen) recently posted..Workout Wednesday!
We think you will enjoy hazelnuts, it is a nice change from the almonds
ooh that whipped banana topping sounds lovely! i love using fruit puree as a substitute for syrup on my pancakes. I love grain free recipes — they make for a happy tummy:) haha thanks for sharing!
Caralyn @ glutenfreehappytummy recently posted..Sweet & Tangy Almond Noodle Delight! GF, V, BED!
Same here, loving the fruit for toppings!
They look amazing, girls! I love love love grain-free baked goods. Especially when they involve nut meals.
Alex@Spoonful of Sugar Free recently posted..Day 1: Summer Kick-Off Challenge
i have heard of people harvesting chestnuts and using that as a flour! i think your coconut buttermilk was a big reason the texture is so fabulous! clever girls
i’ve been grain free since 2009 with the exception of me having fermented buckwheat very recently as an experiment. i feel amazing and am at the lowest weight in my life (even 5lbs lighter than high school!)
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Yum, these look great. I’ve only ever tried savoury pancakes with almond flour, have no clue why I haven’t had sweet one’s yet! I also need to restock on my almond flour now! And I love the sounds of the banana whip for a topping!
These look awesome! We are going grain free for now except a bit of quinoa every now and then. We used to eat tons of grains but now get most of our calories from fruit and protein sources. It seems to be a change for the better!
Jenn and Jac @ sketch-free vegan recently posted..Banana Spice Post-Workout Smoothie + Our Fave Protein!
I love the whole “grain free” movement. The more and more I read and experience for myself, I think it’s the way to go. Damn, I really do love bread though, lol!
I love grain free cooking. I find it fun, challenging, and delicious and its how i eat
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the pancakes look awesome! I wouldn’t be grain free if I didn’t have to be. certainly not into the “trend” thing. But honestly, because of my candida I have to stay away from grains and feel better for the most part. I do miss healthy grains like quinoa and millet. and although I love my coconut flour pancakes and waffles, sometimes they’re just missing that fluffy pancake texture… if that makes sense, lol
Oh my gosh yum!!!! I love the whipped banana idea! I’m totally going to try this in my vita mix
Liz @ iheartvegetables recently posted..Energized Wednesday
Hi, Lori and Michelle! How are these pancakes for digestion? Cuz I find just nuts to be very difficult to digest, but with eggs and flax seed, don’t you find them a bit too heavy?
Thank You!
Stephanie recently posted..No Longer “Paleo” – part 1
Stephanie nope! we did not find these to be heavy at all. Actually felt fine after eating them. But everyone is different in how they digest things.
Yum they sound fab! I have never used hazelnut flour, I need this in my life!!
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These sound so tasty, especially with the banana whip! Grain-free sounds like a good thing to do every once in a while, but I will never give up my oats!
Ah ha ha ha! I was looking at the pictures of you two ABOVE and I thought it was one person…I am sure you guys get that all the time. That being said, what a fun joint venture (your blog)… and I am about to get my “explore” on and check out all your recipes!