The Gluten-Free Homemaker

When I was a kid, my mom would try to make perfectly good food healthier by adding things like nuts, raisins, and wheat germ. We never liked it. I remember her making buckwheat pancakes, and I thought they tasted awful! Now I’m a mom and I try to make healthy food, too, but it has to taste good.

Until the other day, I hadn’t eaten buckwheat since I was a kid. I was curious to find out if it was as bad as I remembered, so I made a small batch of gluten-free buckwheat pancakes. Well, I don’t know if my mom had a bad recipe, or bad buckwheat, or if my tastes have just matured, but those pancakes were good!  It wasn’t just a mom thing either, because the whole family liked them.

I looked up several different recipes and combined them into my own recipe.

Gluten-Free Buckwheat Pancakes

Ingredients

• 1/2 c. buckwheat flour*
• 1/4 c. potato starch
• 1/4 c. gluten-free flour mix (I used Carol Fenster’s sorghum blend)
• 2 tsp. sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 2/3 c. milk
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/4 c. cooking oil

Instructions
In a medium bowl whisk together the flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.  In a separate bowl or glass measuring cup, combine the milk, egg, vanilla, and oil, beating slightly with a fork. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and whisk together well.

Let the batter sit and thicken for a few minutes. Heat a skillet very hot and spoon the batter onto the skillet. These brown quickly, and you might need to turn them before you see bubbles on top. Use a spatula to see how brown they are getting. This recipe made 9 medium pancakes.

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This recipe is linked to Slightly Indulgent Mondays at Simply Sugar & Gluten Free.

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