Almond meal pancakes are a weekend staple at SpringWorth headquarters, normally they'd be made with eggs but I wanted to try an eggless recipe, primarily to have options on those days when we've run out of eggs but then I noticed they use an ingredient that's been in the back of the cupboard for a while, arrowroot (tapioca flour).
But arrowroot and tapioca flour, though generally used similarly, aren't actually the same thing - arrowroot being a starch from the arrowroot herb while tapioca being a starch from the root of a cassava shrub.
Anyway, that's all just technical nitpicking because I was going to use it anyway in this paleo vegan recipe.
I made a half batch with:
- 1/2 cup almond meal
- 9/12 cup tapioca flour (labelled arrowroot)
- 1/2 tbsp baking powder
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- pinch sea salt
- *a few sprays of olive olive because I'm too lazy to melt coconut oil
- *3/4 cup unsweetened almond milk because I like thinner pancakes
All mixed together in a bowl - whisked but not blended
Then fried on a medium heat until bubbly and gently flipped.
But the real reason I wanted pancakes was because we found plastic free strawberries! During plastic aware July I thought that plastic free would have to equal berry free. But the local farmers market delivers again! They dish them out in these cardboard punnets and then you transfer them into your reused brown paper bags at the 'check out'. I might cry with joy if they bring other berries through summer.
Topped with homemade yoghurt and a little syrup.