Friday, January 27, 2012

Garbanzo Bean Pancakes with Fresh Fruit Topping

Modified a recipe out of the VitaMix whole grain cookbook today for Lunch.

Garbanzo Bean Pancakes
In VitaMix Dry blade container:
1/2 cup dry Garbanzo Beans (blended for 1 minute into flour. Then added the following:)
3/4 cup water (should have added either a little less water or used more Garbanzo beans. Ended up needing to add a little wheat flour for desired consistency)
2 TBS olive oil
1 egg
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

Blended an additional 20 seconds.

Fresh Fruit and Spinach Topping
-Thawed a frozen mixture of strawberries, blackberries, mango, pineapple, and papaya along with maybe a 1/2 cup of frozen spinach.
--placed in VitaMix wet-blade container and blended on low till everything was chopped together well but with some small fruit chunks left (probably 20-30 seconds)

Prepared pancakes in skillet, spread a little Greek Yogurt over the top of the pancake stack and then topped with the fruit/spinach mixture (Have no fear--I could not see or taste the spinach!).

Very healthy to be sure. I wouldn't go so far as to say they were fabulous, but they weren't bad either. Certainly they tasted better than I would imagine the recipe probably sounds. :)

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