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The classic pancake recipe is hard to top: you combine flour, milk, eggs and baking powder, stick them in a pan, add syrup and five minutes later you've got a great breakfast. However, the other great thing about pancakes is that they are hard to mess up. You can add a wide range of ingredients and create nearly limitless variations on this morning staple.
One of the most fundamental ways to change a pancake recipe is by altering the base away from traditional flour. Here are some recipes that utilize whole wheat flour or oatmeal to create a healthier, low-carbohydrate meal:
Healthy Pancake Mix: The ingredient list for this whole-wheat flour, egg-white intensive pancake recipe is a bit more complicated than the traditional ones, but when made in advance and refrigerated, it gives you a quick, healthy morning meal option that's perfect for busy days.
Buttermilk and Oatmeal Pancakes: Packed with super-healthy oats and rich buttermilk, this simple pancake recipe makes pancakes that cry out for the addition of big helpings of fruit.
Another great move is to add sour cream to the batter, which makes the pancakes lighter, fluffier and richer. Here's a couple of great recipes along those lines:
Let's start with this lovingly photographed recipe for Edna Mae's Sour Cream Pancakes, which maintain a tangy taste that serves as the perfect complement for sweet maple syrup.
Blueberry Sour Cream Recipe: From CooksRecipes.com, this pancake recipe skips ahead to our next topic by adding blueberries, and can easily be customized for other fruits, nuts or berries. Which brings us to...
The most popular pancake recipe variation is to add various fruits, jams, nuts or fillings to your pancakes. This can be done in limitless ways, here's a few of our favorites:
Blueberry and Lemon Zest Whole Wheat Pancakes: Blueberries, cinnamon and lemons combine to add new dimensions to a healthy whole wheat pancake recipe.
Pumpkin Pancakes with an Orange Syrup: This exotic sounding recipe isn't that difficult, even if you take the extra step by making the syrup yourself.
This is an extremely small sampling of the endless number of pancake recipe variations that are available to you. The book Crepes, Waffles and Pancakes is a great resource for finding more, and of course you can check out KitchenDaily's List of Pancake Recipes. Of course, be sure to experiment with your own ingredients. There are no rules as to what can and can't go in pancakes (we didn't even mention chocolate chips yet!) so be creative and happy eating!
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The classic pancake recipe is hard to top: you combine flour, milk, eggs and baking powder, stick them in a pan, add syrup and five minutes later you've got a great breakfast. However, the other great thing about pancakes is that they are hard to mess up. You can add a wide range of ingredients and create nearly limitless variations on this morning staple. One of the most fundamental ways to change a pancake recipe is by altering the base away from traditional flour. Here are some recipes that utilize whole wheat flour or oatmeal to create a healthier, low-carbohydrate meal:
Healthy Pancake Mix: The ingredient list for this whole-wheat flour, egg-white intensive pancake recipe is a bit more complicated than the traditional ones, but when made in advance and refrigerated, it gives you a quick, healthy morning meal option that's perfect for busy days.
Buttermilk and Oatmeal Pancakes: Packed with super-healthy oats and rich buttermilk, this simple pancake recipe makes pancakes that cry out for the addition of big helpings of fruit.
Another great move is to add sour cream to the batter, which makes the pancakes lighter, fluffier and richer. Here's a couple of great recipes along those lines:
Let's start with this lovingly photographed recipe for Edna Mae's Sour Cream Pancakes, which maintain a tangy taste that serves as the perfect complement for sweet maple syrup.
Blueberry Sour Cream Recipe: From CooksRecipes.com, this pancake recipe skips ahead to our next topic by adding blueberries, and can easily be customized for other fruits, nuts or berries. Which brings us to...
The most popular pancake recipe variation is to add various fruits, jams, nuts or fillings to your pancakes. This can be done in limitless ways, here's a few of our favorites:
Blueberry and Lemon Zest Whole Wheat Pancakes: Blueberries, cinnamon and lemons combine to add new dimensions to a healthy whole wheat pancake recipe.
Pumpkin Pancakes with an Orange Syrup: This exotic sounding recipe isn't that difficult, even if you take the extra step by making the syrup yourself.
This is an extremely small sampling of the endless number of pancake recipe variations that are available to you. The book Crepes, Waffles and Pancakes is a great resource for finding more, and of course you can check out KitchenDaily's List of Pancake Recipes. Of course, be sure to experiment with your own ingredients. There are no rules as to what can and can't go in pancakes (we didn't even mention chocolate chips yet!) so be creative and happy eating!