I'm Julie, and I live with my husband and three young daughters in New South Wales suburbia, Australia. This is the online journal I kept until recently, of how we are trying to live more simply & sustainably in suburbia.

This blog is on indefinite hiatus but please feel free to look around my archives for some inspiration in your own journey to living more lightly and sustainably.


Friday, June 19, 2009

Buckwheat pancakes

These are one of our favourite weekend breakfast foods, Buckwheat flour pancakes. Very light and tangy with a nice texture, we love them served with natural yoghurt and fresh, in season, fruit. You can substitute whey or kefir for the buttermilk, and I normally double the recipe for the five of us, which gives us enough batter leftover to make a few pikelets (mini pancakes) for afternoon tea.



Ingredients

1/2 cup buckwheat flour
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 tsp bicarbonate soda
1 tsp baking powder
pinch salt
1 cup buttermilk (I use kefir or whey)
1 egg, lightly beaten
30g butter, melted

Method

1. Sift dry ingredients.

2. Combine wet ingredients and whisk into dry.

3. Heat a small saucepan over low heat, add a dollop of butter and a small ladle of pancake batter. Cook until bubbles appear in the surface (2-3 minutes), then flip and cook for another minute. Serve hot.



4 comments:

randomplantings.com said...

Julie - I've been looking for a pancake variation so I'm going to give your buckwheat pancake recipe a go for my wife's birthday breakfast on Saturday.
James

randomplantings.com said...

I did make the pancakes on Saturday - feedback was "you can make these again!" i.e. pretty positive. As is turned out I ended up making them with 100% buckwheat flour which was just fine - still really light. Only change I would make next time would be to leave out adding any salt - with salt in both the butter and buttermilk, I don't think it needs any extra.
Thanks again for the recipe
James

Julie said...

Hi James,

Glad to hear that you enjoyed them :-) I guess I hadn't noticed the salt before as I use kefir instead of buttermilk (so no salt) and unsalted butter! Salt is generally added to yeast breads to help control the rate of rise but pancakes aren't bread so I guess it wouldn't hurt to leave it out :-)

Cheers, Julie

randomplantings.com said...

Well I might try the kefir then - I'm not familiar with it - is it readily available or do you make your own?
James

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