I love making pancakes on lazy weekends. It’s so good not getting up early, not rushing to work. Instead of these I go to the kitchen, make the batter; then we sit down, eat the pancakes and just enjoy the delicious moment of the morning.
I found the recipe on one of my favourite healthy, vegetarian blogs, Green Kitchen Stories. I love David & Luise’s recipes that are so comforting, nutritious and oh so delicious. After making these pancakes I did a bit of searching on the Internet about berries and currants. There are so many of them, I didn’t even know about. In Hungary we ususally grow, use and eat strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries and redcurrants. These are the most known berries. I know about mulberries, lingonberries, jostaberries, whitecurrants and blackcurrants but these are difficult to find in markets.
The most interesting ones I haven’t heard about: olallieberry (a cross between the loganberry and the youngberry, each of which is itself a cross between blackberry and another berry – raspberry and dewberry, respectively), loganberry (an octaploid hybrid produced from crossing a hexaploid apomictic blackberry and a tetraploid raspberry), youngberry (is a hybrid between a blackberry and a dewberry, both members of the genus rubus of the rose family, first cultivated in the western United States), dewberries (a group of species closely related to the blackberries, they are small brambles with berries reminiscent of the raspberry, but are usually purple to black instead of red), boysenberries (a cross between a European raspberry, a common blackberry and a loganberry), and pineberries (a strawberry cultivar owned by breeder Hans de Jongh and commercialized by VitalBerry BV in Made, The Netherlands, and publicized in Germany in April, 2009, as Ananaserdbeere, or white pineapple strawberry). Wikipedia still mentions a few like Pacific blackberry, Himalayan blackberry, Santiam berry, Chehalem blackberry and marionberry. Hope I can try all of them one day.
Did you know about all these kind of berries? Which is your favorite one?
Flour free Banana and Blueberry Pancakes
Ingredients (serves 2)
– 1,5 ripe bananas, peeled, mashed with a fork
– 3/4 cup blueberries (frozen)
– 3 organic eggs
– 60-70 g desiccated coconut
– 1 tablespoon cinnamon
– coconut oil
Method
In a bowl whisk the eggs then mix together with the bananas. Add desiccated coconut, cinnamon and blueberries and stir it together. Prepare a non-stick pan with 2 teaspoons coconut oil on medium heat. Spoon batter into pan, forming 2 small pancakes. Cook until lightly brown on the bottom. Turn and brown the other side. Serve with blueberries, honey or maple syrup.
