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Vegan Pancakes!

Chrisby Chris, 2 m, 3 wk ago in Recipes
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It's pancake day on Tuesday and of course you can make very tasty pancakes without the usual dairy ingredients.

 

This recipe, adapted from Wakeman and Baskervilles classic publication The Vegan Cookbook contains no eggs or milk. The Vegan Cookbook
They suggest you use wholemeal flour – personally I find wholemeal a little heavy for pancakes


 

Ingredients

  • 125g (4oz) wholemeal flour – or try white or a combination
  • 60g (2oz) soya floursoya flour - available in small packs at Beanies
  • 2tsps baking powder
  • Salt to taste
  • 125ml (1/4 pt) soya milk
  • 125ml (1/4 pt) water
  • 45ml (3tbsps) oil
     

Instructions

Prepare the Batter:

  1. Sift the flours, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
  2. Gradually add the soya milk and then the water whisking it in to the flour to make a smooth creamy mixture. (Note: this mix can also be used as a coating batter to make vegetable fritters in which case a slightly thicker consistency is required.)
  3. Beat in the oil a bit at a time with a whisk or electric beaters.
  4. The mixture can be prepared up to 12 hours in advance and stored covered in the fridge.

Make the pancakes:

  1. Put a heavy-bottomed frying pan to heat over a moderately high flame.
  2. At the same time pour some oil into a small saucepan and heat over a low flame.
  3. When the frying pan is hot pour in a slug of warm oil and swirl it around the pan to coat the base then tip it back into the saucepan.
  4. Tip a ladle full of batter into the pan and tilt it back and forth to spread the batter thinly across the base.
  5. Replace on the heat and cook for a minute.
  6. When the pancake has set, use a pallet knife to lift one edge and check to see if it is browning.
  7. When it is golden brown underneath slip the pallet knife underneath the middle of the pancake and, in as smooth a movement as possible(!), lift it out and flip it over.
  8. Cook for a further half minute or so then lift out and either serve immediately or place on a plate in a warm oven.

Serve warm with your favourite toppings – which of course will be a squeeze lemon and a sprinkling of caster sugar…

... or perhaps cinnamon

… or vanilla icecream and raspberry compote

… or blueberry compote
… or maple syrup
…or maybe something savoury… Mmm, garlic mushrooms!
 

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