Pancake Day is upon us and my family can eat their body weight in pancakes. Learn how to make the best fluffy sourdough pancakes in town right here.
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How to make The Best Fluffy Sourdough Pancakes in town
Sourdough pancakes are a fantastic way to use up sourdough discard. If you have never made sourdough you can read my How to make a sourdough starter here. if you have a starter you know that it need to be fed everyday and so there will be discarded starter every day.
Pancakes are so easy to make and so quick. I can have a batch made up in less than 10 minutes.
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Types of pancakes
This recipe makes American style fluffy pancakes, but you can make crepes from sourdough as well.
These are soft fluffy and delicious. They only need a few ingredients and no resting period so you can make them straight away.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Sourdough starter
- 1 Egg
- 1tsp Vanilla essence
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
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Method: How to make the Best fluffy sourdough pancakes.
- Start by mixing together the sourdough discard to the other ingredients. Whisk together using a ballon whisk.
- If you are cooking on an Aga you will be cooking on your simmering plate. Otherwise set a cast iron pan on a medium heat to warm up.
- On the Aga place a piece of bake o glide over the hot plate.
- On a regular cooker add a tiny bit of oil to a warmed pan.
- Using a 1/4 cup measure drop 3 pancakes onto your pan/bake o glide.
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- When bubbles start to form and the pancakes are firming up around the edges flip them over to cook on the other side.
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- Once they are cooked through put them in the oven to keep warm.
- Now do that all again until there is no mixture left.
- This should make appropriately 8-9 pancakes
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- Stack your pancakes and add the toppings of your choice. A firm favourite here is bananas with Maple syrup.
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I hope you enjoy these sourdough pancakes.
Happy Pancake Day my friends. Enjoy!!
See you all soon
Happy making and happy baking
Sam x
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The Best Fluffy Sourdough Pancakes
Equipment
- Cast iron frying pan
Ingredients
- 1 cup Sourdough starter
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
Instructions
- Start by mixing together the sourdough discard to the other ingredients. Whisk together using a ballon whisk.
- If you are cooking on an Aga you will be cooking on your simmering plate. Otherwise set a cast iron pan on a medium heat to warm up.
- On the Aga place a piece of bake o glide over the hot plate.
- On a regular cooker add a tiny bit of oil to a warmed pan.
- Using a 1/4 cup measure drop 3 pancakes onto your pan/bake o glide.
- When bubbles start to form and the pancakes are firming up around the edges flip them over to cook on the other side.
- Once they are cooked through put them in the oven to keep warm.
- Now do that all again until there is no mixture left.