Butternut Squash and Coconut Pancakes

It's amazing how far one butternut squash can go and finally after four days I managed to use it all :) I did a wonderful butternut squash, feta, rocket and pine nut barley salad, pasta with butternut squash, pancetta, goats cheese and pine nuts and a butternut squash and goats cheese salad and finally today I knew I had to come up with something different...so while I was driving back from a play session with my son it came to me...Butternut Squash and Coconut Pancakes. Okay this may sound unusual but these are some of my favourite flavours and decided that why not combine them, the end result was wonderful. The taste is lovely and just the right amount of sweetness but perfect to go with a meat dish as well as some lovely goats cheese...honestly give them a try 

Butternut Squash and Coconut Pancakes

200g self-raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

Pinch of salt

3 heaped tbsp dessicated Coconut

1 egg

300ml Coconut Milk

170g butternut squash cut into small cubes and cooked in oil and ground cinnamon

In a bowl add the flour, baking powder, coconut and salt and mix

In a jug add the coconut milk and egg and whisk

Mash up the cooked butternut squash 

Pour the milk mixture in with the dry ingredients and then add the butternut squash and whisk until fully incorporated

Heat a little oil in a frying pan on a medium high heat

Pour out any excess oil and spoon some of the batter into your pan

Cook until golden underneath and turn over and cook on the other side

Once cooked remove from the pan and continue with the rest of the batter

I served mine with a goats cheese salad with some honey and maple BBQ pork steaks

Maple and Cinnamon Pancakes

Breakfast this morning was my lovely warming and tasty Maple and Cinnamon Pancakes...yummy :))

Maple and Cinnamon Pancakes

1 cup self raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tbsp soft brown sugar 

1 tsp cinnamon 

Pinch of salt

1 cup milk

1 egg

1-2 tbsp maple syrup

Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl

Add the milk, egg and maple syrup to a jug and whisk together

Add the milk mixture to the dry ingredients and whisk until well incorporated

Heat some oil and butter in a pan and when it's heated up pour most of the oil/butter into a small bowl and set aside and then spoon small amounts of the pancake mix into the pan and cook until bubbles appear to pop on the top and is golden underneath and turn over and cook the other side

Remove from the pan and stack on top of each other, this will keep them fairly warm while you continue with the rest of the pancake mix

When ready to serve, drizzle a small amount of maple syrup over the top or caramelised apples

Enjoy 

You can also add 1/2 tsp ginger to make gingerbread pancakes :))

Light and fluffy Lemon Ricotta Pancakes

Happy Easter everyone :) and to celebrate why not try some of these wonderful light and fluffy pancakes for breakfast...

Lemon Ricotta Pancakes

3/4 cup plain flour
1 tbsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
2-3 tbsp sugar
1 cup ricotta
2 eggs
2/3 cup milk
Zest of 1 large Lemon
4 tbsp (heaped) Lemon curd
Blueberries, for garnish

Combine flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a small bowl. Mix together the ricotta, eggs, milk, lemon zest in a large bowl. Whisk the flour mixture into the wet ingredients until just combined. Heat a pan with some oil and butter over a medium high heat and once heated, pour out any excess oil from the pan. Spoon small amounts of the batter into the pan and cook on both sides until light golden brown. Place them on a plate and continue with the remaining batter.
Drizzle some of the curd over the pancakes and top with fresh blueberries.

A perfect breakfast :)

This morning we yet again woke up to snow...it's the 24th March, how can this be? I must say I'm getting pretty sick of the cold weather now and really craving some sunshine especially as I have some spring clothes that desperately need to be worn haha!
Anyway we all decided that a yummy warming breakfast was in order so I made my boys some banana and macadamia nut pancakes and they were wonderful...a lovely alternative to your normal pancakes and I'm guessing with the bananas and nuts in them, they must be slightly good for you ;))
(sorry about the picture I only managed to get a very grainy pic from hubby's phone before they got devoured haha)

Banana and Macadamia Nut Pancakes

225g bananas (well ripened)
225g milk
2 eggs
55g butter melted
1 tsp vanilla extract
225g self raising flour
2 tbsp caster sugar
2 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
50g toasted macadamia nuts

Mash the bananas and add to a bowl with the milk, eggs, melted butter and vanilla extract, whisk until thoroughly combined.

Add the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and whisk until everything is mixed and combined.

The mixture is thicker than your normal pancake mixture due to the addition of the bananas but this is fine.

Heat a very small amount of oil in a pan.

Pour spoonfuls of the mixture in to the pan and add the macadamia nuts on the top straight away.

Turn over once cooked underneath and starting to firm up on the top. Cook the other side and place on a plate stacked up

Serve with maple syrup or if like me...nice and plain :)) but if your doing these for a pudding, they would be great with a big dollop of mascarpone cream or ice cream :)

This does make a large batch but perfect for a family :)

Recipe from "desserts for breakfast"