Saturday 27 August 2011

Purple fruit oat & spelt pancakes



Possibly the most underutilised, crowd pleasing breakfast food ever. Why banish pancakes to one day a year? This hearty version incorporates frozen berries which are a freezer food staple. But you can put in pretty much any fruit. A couple of bananas, mashed with some choc chips maybe; sultanas and some orange zest or grated apple and a touch of cinnamon. The combinations are up to you. This recipe will give you around 12 substantial pancakes. So if you want a few less just half the quantities. If you don't have spelt flour, wheat flour is also fine. The mixture will keep fine in the fridge (covered) for a couple days.
Ingredients 
1 cup of rolled oats
1 cup of white spelt flour (Sharpham Park is the best I've come accross)
1/4 cup of castor sugar (i used golden)
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 table spoon of natural yoghurt
3/4 of a cup of milk
2 eggs
1/2 a cup of frozen berries
A knob of butter for frying
Fruit and more yoghurt to serve
Method
Put all the pancake ingredients in a large bowl and mix.
In a non-stick frying pan over a medium-high heat, melt the butter. Splosh in some pancake batter and fry until golden and bubbles are appearing on the top. Flip and cook the other side for   2 minutes. Serve hot.

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