Raspberry and Coconut Pancake Stacks
Wellness Coordinator, Leah Moore, expert on all things health and fitness, shares her super healthy pancake recipe!
Pancake Tuesday holds many happy childhood memories of delicous buttery, lemony, sugar heaven! For some of us, gorging on delicious pancakes topped with syrup and bacon skews our health and wellbeing goals. Some deem it worth it! While, the majority of us deem healthy pancakes as unworthy of consumption on this day of celebration.
Why not try my super healthy, high fibre, high protein delicious pancakes? They are stuffed full of nutrients such as omega 3 fatty acids, while helping to promote heart health and fight colds and flu. Bananas and eggs make up the base of the pancakes, while the use of the coconut flour gives a sweeter flavour without the use of sugar. I also like to add chia seeds and oats. You can play around with what you add to the base of eggs and bananas. Get creative and experiment! I like to stack them high with sweet sticky layers of raspberries and almond butter with a small dribble of maple syrup over the top!
Follow the recipe below to make one large stack of pancakes or two small stacks of pancakes.
Ingredients
- 1 banana, chopped
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 tablespoon of oats
- 1 tablespoon of coconut flour, or ground almonds
- 1 desert spoon of chia seeds
- 1 tablespoon of almond butter
- 1 punnet of raspberries
- 1 desert spoon of maple syrup, or honey
- 1 desert spoon of coconut oil, or olive oil
Method
- Place the chopped bananas and beaten eggs into a blender along with the coconut flour. Blend until smooth.
- Carefully pour the mix into a measuring jug.
- Add the oats and chia seeds and stir.
- Heat a small bit of oil in a pan on a medium heat.
- Drop small amount of the pancake mix in to the pan. Ensure the diameter of the drop pancake is not too large as the mixture can be quite delicate when trying to turn over.
- Once the pancake has sealed on the pan reduce the heat and allow to cook through. Once small bubbles start to come through the centre of the pancake, carefully turn the pancake over.
- Stack the pancakes high with a few raspberries and a very small amount of almond butter in-between each pancake. Top the pancakes with a larger dollop of almond butter, a raspberry and a small amount of maple syrup for the extra sweet kick. Although they do taste lovely and sweet even without the syrup!
