Sweet potato pancakes
I don’t like labeling myself, but if there’s one word that I do like to use is: balance. I’m always trying to find a balance with everything I do. Whether it’s with yoga, food or my daily life. To me, living a balanced lifestyle means balancing out the good with the bad. When it comes to food, its important to become aware of what you’re fuelling your body with and the energy that comes along with it.
For the past 3 years I’ve been experimenting with clean-eating and trying to transform unhealthy dishes into cleaner and healthy recipes. Ofcourse I'll be sharing a few of these recipes here too. My weekends are always filled with lots of baking and especially on Sundays: #pancakesunday. Here’s the recipe of last Sunday’s breakfast.
Sweet potato pancakes
Yes, that’s right. A pancake made with sweet potato. Making pancakes with sweet potato gives them a naturally sweet flavour. The sweet potato gives the pancake a moist and fluffy consistency with a light orange color. These pancakes remind me of my favourite Thanksgiving dish and I’m happy to say that I found a good way to enjoy these flavors more often (not only once a year).
ingredients:
- 1 sweet potato
- 1/2 cup oats (or oat-flower)
- 1tsp baking powder
- 1tsp cinnamon
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup almond milk
Directions:
- Peel and cut the sweet potato into little pieces.
- Bring some water to a boil and cook the sweet potato until soft (±10 min).
- In the meantime make your oat-flour. Use a chopper or grinder to finely chop the oats to a fine powdered consistency.
- Use a blender to mix all ingredients together. Blend until smooth. The texture you’re looking for is thicker than a classic dutch pancake.
- Heat up a non-stick pan on medium to high heat. Grease the pan with a baking spray or a use a little bit of oil (for example: coconut-, sunflower- or vegetable oil).
- Pour the batter into the pan. (I like to make mini pancakes so I can build a pancakestack).
- Cook the pancakes for about 3-4 minutes on each side, or until golden brown.
- When ready, remove pancakes from pan and start building your pancakestack.
- To serve, drizzle a little bit of honey or maple syrup (or any other topping you like) on top and serve with some fruit.
Give these guiltfree-pancakes a try and let me know how they turn out.
Go check out my instagram for a glimpse of my balanced lifestyle and for more clean-recipes. Use the hashtag #libertysuares so I can see your creations.
xoxo
Liberty
