Clean Apple and Pear Vegan Pancakes

One of my biggest food highlight as a child was the occasional weekend morning when my father used to cook pancakes.  I’m sorry but no one has ever topped the culinary brilliance of my father’s recipe that was made with love.  The huge pancakes he would ‘flip’ on the pan, then top with honey and roll them up.  Stuff Christmas morning… seriously we got just as deliriously excited when dad whipped up these babies!

Anyway, in a perfect world we’d be sitting around eating pancakes every morning with toned supermodel bodies and our exceptionally fast metabolisms would burn every last morsel. But alas! We are merely human!  Don’t get me wrong, I love eating pancakes in their ‘true form’, but there are times where I’ve really craved a batch but didn’t want to feel guilty afterwards.

And yes, I have found a solution. These pancakes are guilt-free, suitable for vegans AND the ONLY SWEETENER is the apple and pear.  I know it’s not the same, but they still taste just as great.  So basically all you need is:

PANCAKES

¾ cup of quinoa flakes (or you can cook up a batch of quinoa)

¾ cup of coconut OR almond flour OR oat flour

about 1 -1 ½ cups of almond milk

1 tsp LSA, 1 tsp wheatgerm

1 tsp of nutmeg

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp chia seeds

1 capful vanilla (or one stick)

1 tub of apple puree (I used the SPC but you can use the baby food one as well)

PEAR TOPPING

1 pear chopped into small cubes

1 tsp mixed spice

1 cup of water (or more depending on size of pear)

1.     Before preparing your pancakes, place all ingredients for pear topping in a saucepan and leave to boil until pear is soft.

2.     Place all pancake ingredients in a bowl and mix until well blended (Start with just one cup of almond milk and add more as required.

3.     Spoon into small pikelet sizes on a non-stick pan and cook each side until it appears bubbly on top (as you would normal pancakes).

4.     Place on plate and top with the stewed pear and remainder of your apple puree.

5.     Enjoy!

*P*I will post a picture once my internet speed picks up again.  My net is that slow at the moment that it's taking forever for the upload box to come up! My apologies. *