Banana Buckwheat Pancakes

I bought (uh humm…overbought!) all sorts of berries from the local market the other day. What better way to eat them then to sprinkle them all over pancakes! I also had HEAPS of over-ripe pancakes, so whipped these babies up with buckwheat flour. 

Ingredients

• 2 medium ripe bananas
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups buckwheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• Olive oil, for cooking

Instructions

1. Add all of the ingredients to a blender and blend on high until completely smooth, about 30 seconds to 1 minute. Let the batter sit in your blender while you heat your pan up.
2. Lightly coat a griddle with coconut oil or olive oil and place over medium heat. Once pan is hot, add 1/3 cup of the batter to the griddle for each pancake and cook for 2-4 minutes until pancakes slightly puff up and you see a few bubbles along the edges. (I used egg rings to make cute & plump round pancakes).
3. Flip cakes and cook until golden brown on underside. If you find that pancakes are browning too quickly then you need to lower the heat. I normally start on medium heat, then decrease to medium low later so that my pancakes don't burn. If at any point your griddle starts smoking, it means your pan is too hot.
4. Wipe skillet clean and repeat with more oil and remaining batter. 

Approved for: Adrenal Diet, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free

Filipa Bellette is Co-Founder of Chris & Filly Functional Medicine. She is an accredited Clinical Nutritionist & Functional Medicine Practitioner. She is also a Ph.D. thought-leader, award-winning writer, and regularly published as a guest blogger & in the media. Together with her husband Chris Bellette, Filipa has worked with over 2,000+ busy, burnout clients in the last 10+ years, and specialises in producing healthy, balanced, and happy Mums & Dads…or as she calls it, a Power Parent! Filipa’s own passion for producing high-performance Power Parents came from her own personal experience of Mummy Burnout, after having babies and juggling the demands of business, family, and her failing health.