Easy Meals For The Planet

Simple Sunday Pancakes

This is a great, simple pancake recipe. Top it with lots of berries and nuts, or chocolate chips if you are feeling decadent. If you use white whole wheat flour, you get the benefits of whole grains (lots of fiber, more protein and vitamins), but still a lighter pancake. It also works with standard whole wheat or white flour.

CourseBreakfast

Servings

4servings

Cook Time

20minutes

Servings

4servings

Cook Time

20minutes

Ingredients

1½cups white whole wheat flour(You can use other types of flourbut this one is whole grain and also very light.)
1½teaspoons baking powder
½teaspoon salt
1teaspoon vanilla
1½T maple syrup
1½cups vanilla soy milkYou can use unsweetened or sweetened soymilk. Rice and almond work well too.

Instructions

Mix the dry ingredients together with a fork, or sift to break up any lumps in the baking powder.
Add the wet ingredients and stir. Add more milk or water until the batter will run off your spoon like a syrup. You can adjust the consistency depending on how you like your pancakes.
Use some oil or margarine to grease your pan, and heat it to medium.
You know the pan is hot enough when the batter will sizzle just a bit when poured on.
While you are cooking the first side, you can add blueberries, apple slices, chocolate chips, etc.
Flip when you see small bubbles form and remain open when they pop, even toward the middle of the pancake. You may need to adjust your heat so that you don’t burn the bottoms.
Enjoy!

Recipe Notes

Each of the four servings has 196 calories and 9 grams of protein, and has a carbon footprint of only 48 g CO₂-eq, compared with 201 CO₂-eq for a traditional recipe!