Banana raspberry coconut pancake (grain-free, sweetener-free)
I have eggs for breakfast every morning cooked any which way. But this morning I had a hankering for something a little different....something more decadent with some sweetness.....something akin to a pancake without the dreaded gut-irritating nutrient-sapping flour........so this is what I concocted and it hit the spot......
Ingredients:
Pastured eggs (allow 2-3 eggs per person depending on appetite)
Home-made cream cheese OR store bought quark OR pouring cream OR mud cream - allow 1 tablespoon per person (optional)
Banana, sliced (allow 1/2 banana per person)
A couple of handfuls of fresh of frozen rasberries (I used frozen, unthawed)
Flesh of 1 young coconut butter OR coconut oil for frying
Directions:
Turn on grill element in oven. Melt butter or coconut oil in frying pan. Beat eggs and cream cheese with hand held blender then add to frying pan. Add banana (I sliced it straight into egg mixture), raspberries and coconut slithers. Cook on gentle heat for approx 5 minutes so that the underside of the pancake is cooked then transfer to oven under grill element so that the top side cooks. This avoids trying to flip the pancake and making a big mess! It is ready when the top is golden brown and the eggs are set. If mixture is still runny add back on stovetop to cook until set. If you have a sweet tooth you could drizzle a little maple syrup over the top when serving (though we didn't need to - the fruit alone is sweet enough for me).
This was teamed with a raw dark chocolate smoothie made by mixing the following with a hand held blender:
Whole milk (1 cup per person)
Home made kefir and/or yogurt (I like Alpine goats yogurt or Meredith's sheeps milk yogurt) - allow 1/4 cup per person
Coconut water from 1 young coconut
Raw cacao powder (1 teaspoon per person)
Cinnamon powder (1/2 teaspoon per person)
Vanilla powder (1/4 teaspoon per person)
Home-made gelatinous beef stock (1 tablespoon per person) (I promise you won't taste the beef at all in the smoothie- it just adds thickness- like a real thickshake- and loads of nutrients)
I rarely measure anything - I tend to just thrown things together- so the above measurements are approximates.
A variation on the banana raspberry coconut pancake is a banana chocolate pancake as follows:
Pastured eggs (allow 2-3 eggs per person depending on appetite)
Home-made cream cheese OR store bought quark - allow 1 tablespoon per person (optional)
Banana, sliced (allow 1/2 banana per person)
Raw cacao powder
Cinnamon powder
Vanilla powder
Butter OR coconut oil for frying
Cook as per pancake recipe above omitting the raspberries and coconut and adding a generous sprinkling of the 3 powders after you add the sliced banana. You can add a further dusting of raw cacao powder prior to serving (guess who likes chocolate?!?).....
Using the egg mixture as the pancake base you can make whatever variations of the pancake recipe you like! Cool, hey?! The eggs provide much needed brain-loving saturated fat to slow down the release of the sugars contained in the fruit to avoid fluctuations in blood sugar levels with insulin spikes and crashes. The saturated fat in the egg yolks helps with the absorbtion of the fat-soluble vitamins and minerals in the fruit.
I hope you enjoy these creations as much as we did! Do you have a grain-free pancake recipe? If so please share it! I've tried using activated nut meal together with the beaten eggs but the mixture is more crumbly /coarse and less smooth than plain eggs (or eggs with cream).
Its a glorious day here in Sydney so I'm now making a beeline for Bronte beach for a vitamin D fix and some fun in the sun ....With love x