Pancakes - How to Make Pancakes Healthier

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A tall stack of white fluffy pancakes with crispy brown edges is a fantastic tasty way to start your day. Most people enjoy eating great pancakes any time of day or night. 
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They are made with enriched white bleached flour, vegetable oil, eggs, salt, baking powder and whole milk. Most people will fry the batter on a griddle covered with hot oil. This will make the best pancakes possible.
Not everybody can eat this traditional style of pancake. Making your pancakes a little more healthy is very easy to do without having to sacrifice flavor, or texture. Here are a 5 tips to help make your pancakes more healthy.
  1. Instead of using vegetable oil, substitute olive oil for your batter. Olive oil has a much lower temperature for which it will begin to smoke. Therefore it is fine in the batter but not for high temperature frying.
  2. Use a non stick spray for your griddle instead of vegetable oil. This is a terrific way to reduce calories when making pancakes. You can purchase a variety of sprays with different flavors, olive oil flavor will work well with pancakes, butter flavor is the best match for a fat-free non stick spray. Apply the spray right before you pour the batter onto your griddle as it will smoke. You can give each spot on your griddle an extra spray by lifting the individual pancake off the griddle and spray your non stick as you flip each pancake.
  3. Whole wheat flour can be used instead of enriched white flour. The whole wheat is more dense than white flour which means to keep your pancakes fluffy only substitute 2/3 of the recipe with whole wheat or the result will be heavy pancakes. The whole wheat will give your pancakes the ability to make you feel satisfied much longer than 100% enriched white flour pancakes.
  4. Adding Wheat germ will give your pancakes extra vitamins and nutrients without impacting the flavor or texture of your pancake. ¼ cup of wheat germ can be added to each 2 cups of flour in your recipe. 17 vitamins nutrients are added when you put wheat germ into your batter.
  5. Quick oats is a fantastic way to make your pancakes very healthy. For every cup of flour you can substitute ¼ cup of quick oats for ¼ cup of flour. The quick oats should be added to the wet ingredients for a couple minutes to absorb moisture before dry ingredients are added.



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