High Fiber Pancakes
We just celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary, and instead of the traditional gift of pottery, we decided to give each other a slow juicer. We’ve had so much fun (and so much juice!) in the last 24 hours. We’ve made apple juice, apple-carrot juice, apple-carrot-orange-pink dragonfruit juice, mango juice, and tomato juice so far. Every time I’ve had a juicer, I get put off by what I consider the waste of all the pulp. So I’ve been working on recipes to reincorporate all that fiber back into our diets in a yummy way. One nice thing with the slow juicer is that there isn’t nearly as much pulp as with our other juicers, but there still is some, so I decided to see what I could come up with.
Littlenificent wanted pancakes for lunch today, and Middlenificent always wants PB&J sandwiches, so we made PB&J sandwiches using these pancakes as our bread (and using up almost 2 cups of apple and carrot pulp!) It was a big hit, and I felt like we’d had a reasonably healthy lunch. Daddynificent commented several times on how good they were and that he couldn’t taste the carrot or apple at all. Win for everybody!
High Fiber Pancakes
(makes 18-20 very filling pancakes)
- 2 cups whole wheat flour (you can sub white or a gluten-free mix – here’s my favorite)
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1 heaping Tbsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt (don’t skip this)
- 2 1/2 cups milk, dairy or non-dairy (you may need more to thin out your batter)
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract OR 10 drops Nunaturals Vanilla stevia for added sweetness
- 2 eggs
- 2-4 Tbsp coconut oil (optional)
- 1 1/2 – 2 cups of juicer pulp (I used apple and carrot)
You have several options for mixing this. You can do the traditional dry ingredients in one bowl, wet ingredients in another, and then combine them. Or you can do my favorite way: throw everything in the blender, mix, and pour onto the pan. Cook them like you cook any other pancake, and enjoy!!!
If you don’t have a juicer, don’t worry! You can use grated apple and/or carrot, and then decrease the milk a bit. And I have more pancake recipes that don’t use pulp coming soon!
What a genius way to use up the pulp! Those pancakes sound delicious! And what a compromise! I’ll take a pb & j pancake sandwich any day 😀 congrats on being married 9 years! thats awesome! and your daughter is so precious! adorable!! thanks for sharing!
Thank you! You are very sweet! I am loving your blog and learning a lot from your creativity!
I am going to leave out the stevia, cinnamon and vanilla…I am doing it with the vegetable pulp…I’ll let you know how it goes…I also have been disturbed by the pulp waste…even though my chickens like it…Peace
I am off to make these right now. In the blender! Hope my boys eat them because I have a ton of pulp to use up. I have been making crackers with the pulp but there’s only so much fiber pulp I can eat myself. Time to stuff it into the children!
What a great use of carrot pulp! I know I can figure out a gluten free version. Thanks for the great tip!!
My pleasure, Heather! These have worked pretty well GF here, so I don’t think you’ll have a hard time at all.
What a neat idea!
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I like that you’ve found a way to use up the pulp left over from juicing. Thank you for sharing at Simple Supper Tuesday.
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing with “Try a New Recipe Tuesday.” Hope you’ll be able to join us again this week. http://our4kiddos.blogspot.com/2013/10/try-new-tuesday-october-29.html
This recipe was perfect! We just started juicing and have all this leftover pulp! I did a search online for pulp pancakes, found your recipe and gave it a try this morning; YUM! No issues, followed recipe exactly and had some wonderful pancakes!
Thanks!
Thanks so much for letting me know it worked for you! I’m so glad you liked them!
Hi there. Thanks for sharing your recipe. It looked really good and nutritious, so I gave it a shot. (I’ve made other recipes with pulp) I made it for supper tonight. The pancakes looked great, tasted great, but unfortunately, the middle simply would not cook. I used coconut milk instead of cow milk, and also used 1 cup of whole wheat flour and 1 cup of non-bleached white flour. The texture, because of that middle, was super weird.
At least the kids ate them all up and didn’t really notice!
Wow Thankyou these were delicious with my apple pulp! I did change it as I had sour milk and I also put 2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1 tsp of baking soda and pure freshly ground whole wheat flour. They were nice and fluffy oh and I couldn’t throw it in the blender as the electricity was off , as I had hoped to make the apple pulp less course. But it all turned out great! Loved them!
Sally