How to Make Delicious and Healthy Pumpkin Pancakes

Try these easy and delicious pancakes for breakfast or Sunday brunch. They’re lightly sweet and are great with just butter, or you can mix in any number of goodies (raisins, chopped walnuts or pecans, sunflower seeds, dried cranberries, etc) and/or top them with maple syrup (buy the real stuff; you deserve it!), or peaches, berries, pineapple, or mango - or how about a dollop of real whipped cream or even a scoop of ice cream...you deserve it!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 cup self-rising flour
• 2 Tbsp brown sugar (or white)
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp ginger
• 3/4 cup half & half or milk
• 1/2 cup solid-pack canned pumpkin (See Cook’s Note)
• 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract (optional)
• 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 egg, beaten
• Butter or oil for cooking

1. 

   Mix together the dry ingredients, then add the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly.

2. Lightly oil or butter a heated skillet or griddle and pour in about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake. Cook until the edges are just dry. Turn pancakes and cook until lightly browned.

3. Keep warm in very low oven while making remaining pancakes. Makes 8 -10 pancakes.

Tips & Warnings

• There are two types of canned pumpkin: the kind that’s premixed with sugar, etc., to use as pumpkin pie filling, and the kind that’s just pumpkin with no added ingredients (often called Solid Pack.) I recommend buying only the plain pumpkin type, as it allows you the widest range of possibilities.

Resources

• See More eHow Articles From HuggingtheCoast
• Hugging the Coast: A Celebration of Coastal Life and Food
• Enjoy More of Doug DuCap's Original Recipes!

[Limowreck]

on 8/5/2008 Pumpkin is so good for you and can be used in so many ways. This is one way I had never had before. Thanks for this super recipe. Can't wait to try it out on the family! *****

[acole]

on 7/18/2008 Wow! These sound really good. And I read an article yesterday that said cinnamon is good for you to have in your diet. So this would be a good recipe to get it! Thanks!

[ACGaughen]

on 7/17/2008 Oh wow, these sound absolutely incredible! Pumpkin is so delicious and versatile!