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.
*Despite the name, buckwheat is gluten free. I bought a small package of Shiloh Farms organic buckwheat flour which was labeled gluten free on the front. After I ate the pancakes, I saw a note on the back of the package which stated that it was packaged using equipment that also handles wheat. L I will look for a different brand. Any suggestions?
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
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.
*Despite the name, buckwheat is gluten free. I bought a small package of Shiloh Farms organic buckwheat flour which was labeled gluten free on the front. After I ate the pancakes, I saw a note on the back of the package which stated that it was packaged using equipment that also handles wheat. L I will look for a different brand. Any suggestions?