Make them pancakes and eat it too!

Are you worried that your craving for pancakes on a perfect weekend morning would ruin your diet? Not anymore! Pancakes can be your soul food but they don’t have to be unhealthy. You can definitely put a healthy twisty around pancakes and get them working your taste buds while not interfering with your healthy diet. Here are a few ways you can have healthy pancakes!

Add Berries To Your Pancakes

A very healthy way of making your pancakes healthy is by adding berries to the pancakes. Pick your choice of berries and them to the pancake mixture. Berries are rich in vitamin C and antioxidants that are great for your skin and your heart in general. They also add a good amount of protein into the pancake lifting its nutritional value. Moreover, adding berries to the pancakes would undoubtedly enhance the taste factor making it the perfect healthy breakfast for your weekend cravings!

Make Your Usual Quick Bread But Make It A Pancake

Having a banana loaf or a pumpkin loaf could be beneficial for your health. Now, what if you use the same stuff to make your pancake? Use bananas or pumpkin to make your pancakes and they will be the healthiest pancakes you have ever had! If you are using bananas to make the pancakes, make sure to use oatmeal flour instead of your regular wheat flour. Using oatmeal flour with bananas for the pancake mixture not only makes them tasty but also so much healthier!

Use Whole Grain For Your Pancake Batter

If you want to make your pancakes healthy, just skip the all purpose wheat flour altogether. Instead use flour made with whole grain flours like cornmeal. You can also use almond flour which is an amazingly healthy alternative for the all purpose flour. When using the cornmeal and whole wheat flour, add a little bit of lemon juice to the batter. Doing this, would instantly enhance the taste of the pancakes without compromising the healthiness of the ingredients. Using almond flour is also a great alternative since you get all the nutty goodness from it. Moreover, almond flour has a good protein content that would make the perfectly healthy pancakes. A bonus tip would be to leave the sugar out of the pancake batter as well. Instead, you can use honey for the batter and for the topping.