I still had sweetness on my brain this morning from my waffles yesterday. I froze the rest of the waffles I made yesterday for a quick breakfast to bring to work during the week, so Sundays are the days where I usually make chocolate chip pancakes. I stopped buying the pre-made pancake mixes a while ago since it takes no time to make your own. Since I had the quinoa flour, I was curious whether I could use that in place of regular flour and it turns out you can! I adapted this recipe from a recipe I read on www.recipezaar.com It gave me a base, and I just adjusted it from there.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups of quinoa flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg, 2 egg whites
1 1/2 cups milk
1 TB. Earth balance buttery spread (melted)
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup of ground flax seed
Just mix all the ingredients together. I actually increased the flour because when I first poured it on the griddle….ummm….way too thin!
So I added the additional 1/2 cup of flour to make the batter thicker…much better!
The only thing that I would do different next time is I would reduce the corn meal. They tasted great, and I love the texture/taste of the cornmeal, but my kids could tell something was different about these and I think it was the flavor of the cornmeal. I think the pancakes would turn out just as well with omitting that ingredient all together!
Drop by 1/4 cup measure onto a skillet coated with cooking spray. My batch made 14 big pancakes. Each pancake is 107 calories, 2.7 grams of fat and 2.63 grams of fiber. I had 3 for breakfast with sugar free syrup and an apple and I was stuffed!!
Wow, those look fantastic! Perfect for a Sunday morning 🙂
Yummy recipe!! I’ll have to give it a try sometime!
I just saw quinoa flour for the first time, and I was wondering what to do with it!
Oh wow, super yum!
I haven’t use quinoa flower before, but it sounds good … and those pancakes look very good!
So far everything I have used quinoa flour in has turned out just fine!
And I read the quinoa flour has the same benefits as actual quinoa, so it contains all 9 essential amino acids your body needs. And I like to add the ground flax seed for Omega 3’s to make it even healthier!
I love quinoa, but have never used the flour. These look so fabulously fluffy.
I like this healthy spin on a great morning classic! Whenever I make pancakes I try to cut down on the oil, butter etc but I drown them in maple syrup!
Super healthy pancakes – I love it! I like the flax you snuck in too. They look delicious!
Can this be made without the flax seed? I’m a teenager and even the quinoa flour is a stretch to get in the house! My parents aren’t exactly what you’d call health conscious.
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Kelly, of course it can be made without flax seed. And there are all types of great flours out there. You can try whole wheat flour, oat flour, whole wheat pastry flour. Good for you for eating healthy!!
Hello! I tried this today with the exception that I did NOT use any corn meal (just straight 2 C. quinoa flour). I made the quinoa flour in my Vitamix (works everytime) and these were absolutely perfect fat big pancakes… and they tasted scrumptuous. I baked up the leftover batter as a sort of muffin-cookie-biscuit (not so spectacular, but good with almond butter later on, I think). Quinoa is da bomb!