Pancakes make me happy. My guess is that they make you happy, too. But it’s been years since I’ve made pancakes for breakfast; they’re not the most gluten-free friendly food. But after my first experiment with chickpeas flour, I realized just how much this would improve my life.
But first, a lesson on cake:
“Young man, you’re not having cake for breakfast. You’re having fried cake with syrup for breakfast.”
Done.
These were just as easy to make as “real” pancakes and tasted among the best I’ve had. They absorb moisture really easily, so have the maple syrup standing by. And they don’t get soggy! Perfect.
Gluten-Free Pancakes
Ingredients(Makes 4 medium-sized pancakes):
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1/2 cup chickpea flour
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1 egg
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1/3 cup water
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1 (heaping) Tablespoon sugar
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1/4 teaspoon baking soda
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Pinch of salt
- Butter or oil for greasing
- Whisk together the flour, water, egg, sugar, baking soda, and salt until all the clumps are gone from the batter.
- Heat a pan or skillet over a burner set to medium with some butter or oil. Scoop about 3 Tablespoons-1/4 cup of batter into the pan. Cook for about 40 seconds until the edges are cook and bubbles come up through the batter. Flip and cook for another 15 seconds until the other side is set. Serve while still hot.
Top with maple syrup, nut butter, coconut shreds, fruit sauce, or whatever else you can think of.
You can bet what’s on the menu for tomorrow’s breakfast.
MMM MMM MMM!!!
Haha, Jim’s routine was hilarious 🙂 Love the cake AND pie parts.
Ooooh! Fantastical idea! Next up, grainless chocolate chip cookie dough pancakes? 😉
These look just like pancakes you’d get at a diner! You make me want to try more gluten free ingredients and recipes.
Amazingness! I need to get some chickpea flour, STAT! 🙂
I’ve never used chickpea flour before but these look awesome Evan! Yum!
wow, Evan! Great work on these…grain free is HUGE!
everywhere i turn, someone is making something great with chickpeas or CP flour. I guess I need to hop on this train, huh 🙂
Jim Gaffigan. I die. I LOOOOOVE him.
I’ve had taste testers complain about the garbanzo taste with recipes like this. Is it strong to you, or does everything else even it out?
thanks…
The batter doesn’t taste good at all but I find after it’s cooked it takes on the flavors of toppings really well.
Looks delicious! It is funny you post this because yesterday I tried making chickpea tortillas. Some of them worked great but some were a bit thick and almost pancake like. Adding an egg in there would definitely have made them even more cake like and would have been great with syrup.
YUM! I love garbanzo bean flour and have been wanting to try new recipes with it! I am obsessed with socca bread, can’t wait to try these!
YUM! it’s been too long since I’ve had pancakes!
i want pancakes. i have chickpea flour. this shall be done.
I love Jim Gaffigan! Hilarious.
This is such a good idea! Since were upping the protein here, i’ll probably have to put some chocolate chips in there. Can’t have my pancakes too healthy. 🙂
These look fantastic. Bravo dude! Will have to try these when I get my hands on some chickpea flour… Because making my own sounds kind of difficult.
those look awesome!! i need to get some chickpea flour to play around with !
See I tend to use a sorghum, rice, potato starch combo for gluten red pancakes and chuckles flour for pizza dough. Never really thought to use chuckles flour for a sweet dish, I guess in my mind it’s more savory.
I just made these! I added cinnamon and used palm sugar and Stevia instead of regular sugar. SO good!
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Do you think this recipe would work with canned chickpeas and less water?
I’ve never tried it that way but I don’t think it would work out. Chickpea flour is just too different from re-hydrated chickpeas to cook the same way.
Congrats! And let me guess, FG rejected on account of “composition” or “lighting”. Once you start submitting, it will become your life’s work. Just sayin 🙂 Well it has for me 🙂
“Harsh lighting and/or overexposed” 🙂
just wait til you get a million for “composition”
it’s their way of saying, your photos suck, we think you food is ugly, and we dont know how to tell you so we have this catch-all term.
When my friends and i get rejections, we loathe the ole “composition” b/c it just tells us they think our food is ugly. lol
Both your foods(?) are lovely – don’t be so harsh on yourself! Your photos are way above the “norm” that’s for sure 🙂
On an another note – can you use another flour besides chickpea? Quinoa maybe?
I’ve never worked with quinoa flour but my gut reaction is no. Chickpea flour is unique in how fibrous it is which helps it not spread out as much as other gluten-free flours tend to.
Okay thanks. I’m not sure how my stomach would do with the chickpeas! I guess I can try both and see.
Oh my gosh, in no way did I mean to imply that your photos are anything but awesome…at all!
I personally have just had lots of rejection from the food sites and was just sharing what has happened to me…but that’s not a reflection on you at all Evan. (*insert foot into mouth now*)
Don’t even worry about it. I know exactly what you meant. They just pick apart photos for no reason most of the time.
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I am gonna try these tomorrow. I’ve only made “gluten free” pancakes from a store bought mix and frankly they taste nasty. Looking forward to these. Thanks
WOW, I love garbanzo bean flour and these pancakes are Fabulously Delicious. My first one was a little runny so it spread out a lot. I tried it while I cooked the next one (after I had stired the batter before scooping)and I couldn’t stop eating it. With nothing on it. As far as your picture goes – it’s beats what mine would have looked like hands down. I will be making these to eat on my way to work a lot!! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I’ll be cruising your site for more like this one!
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I made these and they tasted horrible, not only that the batter turned out more like crepes batter. Very runny. I don’t know what I did wrong?