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Gluten Free Pikelets

Liam decided he wanted to cook this morning and had a whole bunch of ingredients out on the bench. Including, cheese, chocolate, eggs, flour, maple syrup and almond milk. “I want to make a cheesey, chocolatey, little pancake” he said. “I’m not sure about the feta and chocolate together, but we could make little pikelets with melted chocolate” I replied, “oh, but there is loads of sugar in pikelets” I muttered. “No problem, we can use maple syrup instead of sugar” he said. And so this recipe was born. A slightly sweeter, thicker pancake mix, with baking powder so that it would rise, and it worked really well.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup (250ml) gluten free flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 2 Tbsp maple syrup
  • 1 egg
  • 180ml almond milk
  • pinch of salt
  • a little water

Directions

  1. Add all ingredients into a bowl and mix well
  2. Add a little water to get a thick batter, but one that can be spooned into the pan (about 50ml depending on your flour).
  3. Heat a frying pan on a moderate heat (induction 6).
  4. Place a desert size scoop of batter into the pan. Spread it a little to have the batter an even thickness of approx 1/2cm thick.
  5. Cook all the batter in batches and serve warm with melted chocolate, honey, jam and coconut yoghurt, or other toppings of your choice

Maple Syrup

Maple Syrup

Maple syrup is an intensely sweet flavour that is often used for topping pancakes, waffles, and french toast. It can also be used as a sugar substitute in baking, or used over nuts or fruits that are being dried to increase their sweetness.

Maple syrup is a syrup usually made from the sap of sugar maple, red maple, or black maple trees, although it can also be made from other maple species. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before the winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in the spring.

A hole is bored into the trunks of the trees, and the sap is collected. The sap is boiled to evaporate out the water, leaving a more concentrated syrup. Most of the maple syrup produced in the world comes from the Canadian province of Quebec.

Beware of immitations: In the US, maple syrups must include only maple syrup, with only trace ingredients of for example salt allowed. “Maple-flavoured” syrups on the other hand include maple syrup but may contain additional ingredients. “Pancake syrup”, “waffle syrup”, “table syrup”, and similarly named syrups are substitutes which are less expensive than maple syrup, but their primary ingredient is most often high fructose corn syrup flavoured; they have no genuine maple content.

Gluten Free Banana Pancakes

Banana pancakes

Sunday morning isn’t complete in our house without pancakes for breakfast, so when we decided to go Gluten and Dairy Free this was my first cooking challenge – how to create a terrific pancakes recipe so that we didn’t miss out on our Sunday morning family ritual. This one certainly works a treat and has become a firm family favorite!

Ingredients

  • 250ml sweet potato flour
  • 250ml rice flour
  • 1 x 200ml packet of coconut milk
  • 2-3 bananas
  • 2 eggs
  • Coconut oil to cook.

Directions

  1. Measure the sweet potato and rice flours out into a bowl.
  2. Blend the coconut milk and bananas together in a blender
  3. Add the eggs, and coconut milk mixture to the flour
  4. Stir well. Add a little water (about 50ml) to the mixture to get a runny batter consistency
  5. Cook in a well heated pan with a little (few drops) of coconut oil
  6. Serve with freshly cut fruit or any other topping for a delicious breakfast treat for the whole family.

Music to go with it…
Listen on Spotify: Jack Johnson – Banana Pancakes