Eggless Peach Pancakes

My kids love pancakes and especially my daughter, who is not a fan of spicy variety breakfast dishes, polishes them off without any complaints. These peach pancakes were made especially for her and she enjoyed them with maple syrup. I arranged the peach slices over the pan, poured the batter over them and cooked. Instead, finely chopped peaches can be added to the batter. To make them more flavorful, ground ginger can be added. 

Ingredients for 6 pancakes:
1 tbsp flax meal (Or one egg substitute)
1 cup all purpose flour (Substitute half the quantity with wheat flour for an healthier version.)
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. melted butter
1 cup milk (preferably at room temperature.)
2 peaches
Honey / maple syrup to serve

 Method:
1. Whisk flax meal and 3 tbsp. warm water together and leave aside for about 5 minutes.
2. Peel and slice the peaches, lengthwise or chop them fine. 
3. Heat a griddle / non stick pan on medium heat such that a drop of water beads when dropped on it.
4. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, sugar and salt in a bowl. Whisk the flax meal from step 1, melted butter and milk in another bowl. Combine both dry and wet ingredients and whisk the mixture to a thick batter. Stir the peaches in the batter if they were chopped fine.
5. Pour about 1/4 cup batter of batter onto the pan. Arrange 3 to 4 slices on the spread batter. Or place the slices first on the pan and pour batter above them. Cook until bubbles appear on the surface and the bottom side turns golden brown. Flip the pancake with a spatula and cook for about 30 - 40 seconds more. Transfer onto a serving plate. Repeat the steps with the remaining batter.
6. Serve the pancakes warm with maple syrup or honey.

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Walnut - Prune Yogurt

While hunting for Russian recipes during "Around the World" marathon, I came across a quick and easy dessert from the region. It had some walnut stuffed prunes served in smetana. Smetana is the central and eastern European version of sour cream and in absence of it, can be substituted with yogurt, sour cream or crème fraîche. Walnuts are stuffed into dry prunes and a sweetened sour cream is poured over them. Then they are refrigerated overnight or until the sour cream solidifies.
I goofed up somehow while noting the recipe and got fresh prunes instead and kept wondering how to stuff them with walnuts. I couldn't do it obviously and so chopped the fruit and added it to lightly sweetened yogurt along with some chopped walnuts. I refrigerated it overnight and it made a yummy breakfast next day. I am not posting the original recipe as it just involves the steps I mentioned above. The recipe requires only four ingredients - sour cream / yogurt, some icing sugar to sweeten the sour cream, dried prunes and walnuts.

This goes to Blogging Marathon #49, under the theme of "Weekend Brunch".
 
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