The first week of VeganMoFo is already over (at least for me, I’ll take a break from blogging over the weekend). Thank you all for visiting my blog, it was fantastic to read all your comments. I have some great desserts scheduled for next week, you just have to tell me what you would like to see first: a chocolate cake with blackcurrant filling or doughnuts stuffed and frosted with butter cream? There will also be some simpler recipes and something with yeast. But for now I think I have had enough cake for this week so I want to end it with a simple and not too sweet recipe: pancakes.
In Germany pancakes are not small and thick. They are large and a little bit thicker than crêpes. And we don’t eat them for breakfast. Here pancakes are made for quick and lazy lunches, especially on Fridays. Or at least that’s how it was in my family. My grandmother made them with apple sauce and sugar or sometimes even better: with canned blueberries. I never cared much for the pancakes when we had those canned berries: I would eat them straight from the jar, slurp the juice, and then show the blue lips and blue tongue I had acquired to my mother. It was a lot of fun.
German Blueberry Pancakes
7-8 pancakes, diameter 17-18 cm
Ingredients:
210 g ( 1/34 cups) flour
20 g (1/4 cup) chickpea flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 generous pinch salt
360 ml (2 1/2 cups) soy milk
1 tablespoon oil
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
60 ml (1/4 cup) water
oil for frying
canned blueberries and sugar for serving
Method:
In a large bowl combine flours, sugar, salt, soy milk and oil. Whisk until no lumps are left and let the batter rest for 30 minutes.
Add oil to a large pan and set the heat to medium.
Whisk baking powder and water into the batter and use a ladle to pour into the pan. Tilt the pan so the batter spreads evenly. You want the pancake as thin as possible, but thicker than a crêpe.
Fry for 1 or 2 minutes. When the edges start to brown but the centre is still a bit wet, flip pancake and bake the other side, also for 1-2 minutes.
Serve with canned blueberries and sugar.
18 comments
They look so good! Like Martine said, they sound very similar to Dutch pannenkoeken. Loved reading about your memories of blueberry pancakes. :)
love pancakes – am still trying to catch up with vegan mofo – no wonder you need a break – when I was young pancakes were only for dessert never for breakfast but as an adult they are mostly weekend breakfasts – love the spongy look of your pancakes
Could I substitute almond milk or rice milk for the soy milk? I’m dealing with a soy allergy.
Yes, that should work.
Your blog always gives me serious cravings! These look lovely.
I would vote for chocolate cake with the berries, though I suspect we will get both. ;)
Those look so good!! That’s interesting, I never knew about German pancakes, they seem to a little in between English pancakes and American ones.
Oh my goodness these looking amazing! I will have these this week!! Thanks for a great recipe and happy first week of Vegan Mo-fo!
I just made these for breakfast. They were fantastic. We love any and all types of pancakes so it’s great to have a new recipe to try. I didn’t have any applesauce or canned blueberries so we had some with blueberry jam and some with fresh strawberries cooked into a syrup. A great breakfast, thanks Mihl!
That’s fantastic, Mia. Thanks for letting me know!
You’re welcome Mihl. Thanks for sharing your recipes.
P.S. I vote for chocolate cake!
I can not decide between those two choices. Both sound great! Those pancakes are beautiful! Does it take a bit of practice and skill to flip them at the right time without breaking them? I have always been intimidated by making crepes. By the way, this post clears something up for me. Many years ago I went to a potluck for a Dutch friend. Many of the guests were from Germany and I thought it was strange that one of them brought his own homemade ‚crepes.‘ It seemed like a special recipe of his. Now I think they must have been German pancakes. :-)
mmm. these look like pancake perfection. I really like the idea of a pancake that’s halfway between an American thick pancake and a thin crepe. Yours looks like the best of both worlds. And the bloobs look delicious… though I’d probably go with applesauce since I still have homemade applesauce left over from last year – and our apples are almost ripe again for this year!
I can’t wait to try these. I love chickpea flour!
I love pancakes! This kind looks very similar to the kind we make to eat on pancake day in the UK except we just use sugar & lemon as our topping.
Those pancakes look great! Typical Dutch pancakes (pannenkoeken) are very similar. I like to make mine with a little chickpea flour, just like you do, but I don’t add sugar or baking powder to the batter.
In the Netherlands we even have dedicated pancake restaurants where you can have all kinds of baked on toppings for your pancake, similar to pizza toppings at a pizzeria, but both sweet and savory. They are often willing to make vegan pancakes if you ask in advance. Apple pancakes are my favorite.
Congratulations on a successful first week of MoFo! The pancakes are so pretty all folded up. Almost like food origami :)
Chocolate cake or buttercream frosted doughnuts? Yes to both!!
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