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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so it’s good to make sure you eat lots of high energy and healthy foods, especially if you’re going to be doing any energy-intensive activities later on in the day.  These oat and buckwheat pancakes provide a real kick-start to your morning and help keep you going all day long.

If you don’t want to use oats, you can use millet or quinoa flakes, which will give you a higher protein content.  Brown rice flakes could also be substituted.  I’ve used soy milk in the recipe because I’m trying to stay away from dairy as much as possible these days, but if you prefer, you can go ahead and use regular milk.

If I’m going to go out trekking in the mountains all day (something I often do), I usually double the recipe and wrap the leftovers to take with me for a quick energy boost later on in the afternoon.  They’re not as yummy without the maple syrup, of course, but as long as you’ve got something to wash them down with, they’re still pretty good. (For a sugary indulgence, try these lemon meringue pancakes.)

You Need:

• 250g buckwheat flour
• 70g oats
• 2 tablespoons corn meal
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 250ml soy milk
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 large egg

Steps:

1. Heat a non-stick frying pan over medium heat.
2. Combine the buckwheat flour, oats, corn meal, baking powder, salt and granulated sugar. Stir well.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the soy milk, oil and egg.
4. Beat until well mixed.
5. Add the dry ingredients to wet ingredients about a third at a time and stir until smooth.
6. Spoon about 50ml of batter for each pancake onto the frying pan.
7. Cook for about 2 minutes each side, until golden brown.
8. Serve with butter and maple syrup, jam, yogurt, or whatever topping you prefer.

Ready In:  20 minutes

Serves:  4-6

Difficulty:   2 out of 5

Tags: baking powder, breakfast, buckwheat flour, corn meal, egg, gluten-free recipes, granulated sugar, Oat and Buckwheat Pancakes, oats, pancakes, soy milk, vegetable oil

This entry was posted on Thursday, 5 April, 2012 at 9:52 am by Jack Williams and is filed under Less than 30 minutes, Main Courses, Meal for 4 people. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed RSS 2.0. You can leave a comment, or make a trackback from your own blog.