Saturday's the only time K and I have no morning agendas..and can sleep in late. Invariably, we wake up too late for a breakfast, so end up having a nice heavy brunch. (Of course its a different story that everytime, K starts to get hungry around 2pm and we have a so-called mini-lunch!). Btw, I believe, these 2pm hunger pangs are highly psychological...
Anyway, getting back to the breakfast, K's been asking for pancakes for a while now and I've been making excuses like we don't have pancake mix at home..I'm too lazy...blah blah blah. Last week when we went grocery shopping, he asked me to pick up a packet of pancake mix, which I conveniently forgot. Back home, I tried saving my ass by saying that we could make it from scratch and that'd be a lot more healthy.
Come Saturday morning, surprise surprise...what else would he crave for, but pancakes. Since we didn't have the usual berries to go with the pancakes, we decided on choco-chip pancakes (don't ask me if this is healthy...I don't have an answer!). There are other ingredients we didn't have, but could do without - buttermilk (substituted 2% milk), and baking soda (to make it fluffy).
The end product was yummy, but I don't have any classic pics of stacked pancakes drizzled with maple syrup and topped with a blob of butter...because 'somebody' couldn't wait till one was done to start popping into his mouth! Here's the recipe I got for making 'instant' pancake mix from food network's Alton Brown (yea occassionally he has good recipes!).
Ingredients
6 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3 teaspoons baking powder (add them to make pancakes fluffy!)
1 tablespoon kosher salt
2 tablespoons sugar
- Combine all of the ingredients in a lidded container. Shake to mix and use within 3 months.
1 egg, separated
1 cup 2% milk
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 cup "Instant" Pancake Mix, recipe above
1 tsp butter or pan spray, for greasing the pan
20 chocolate chips
- Heat a frying pan (till water droplets you put on in start dancing the moment they touch the pan). I personally LOVE a cast-iron skillet.
Whisk together the egg whites and the milk in a small bowl. In another bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the melted butter.
Combine the buttermilk mixture with the egg yolk mixture in a large mixing bowl and whisk together until thoroughly combined. Pour the liquid ingredients on top of the pancake mix. Using a whisk, mix the batter just enough to bring it together. Don't try to work all the lumps out.
Lightly butter the griddle. Wipe off thoroughly with a paper towel. (No butter should be visible.)
Gently ladle the pancake batter onto the griddle and sprinkle on chocolate chips. When bubbles begin to set around the edges of the pancake and the griddle-side of the cake is golden, gently flip the pancakes. Continue to cook 2 to 3 minutes or until the pancake is set.
Serve hot, stacked and drizzled with maple or chocolate syrup.
Chocoate chip pancake
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