Let's start with a basic breakfast pancake fluffy blueberry pancakes and it all starts with the dry ingredients I
Sift my dry ingredients together starting with two cups of all-purpose flour I add just a little bit of sugar only a quarter cup
Really the sweetness in breakfast pancakes comes from what you put on top?
Let's talk maple syrup
2 teaspoons of baking powder half a teaspoon of baking soda and just a pinch of salt
I'll just sift this all together and the next step is to mix your wet ingredients
I do love using buttermilk in my pancakes one in three quarters of a cup
It reacts with your leavening ingredients to make them nice and fluffy and it adds a beautiful flavor if you don't have buttermilk
Don't worry. You can still make your pancakes for breakfast
just take the same measurement of milk add a
Tablespoon and a half of lemon juice and that will accomplish the same thing just give it a quick stir before you add your other
ingredients 1/4 cup of vegetable oil
2 eggs and when I'm making blueberry pancakes, I like to put in a little lemon zest
One of the things that's great about a fluffy pancake recipe like this is you have minimal dishes
So to start your morning off right you just make a cup of coffee start making pancakes, and they're done before you know it
When you're mixing your wet ingredients into your dry
It's important not to over mix don't use electric beaters
Or a mixer just whisk it by hand and you do actually want to see a few lumps that way you know you'll have
tender fluffy light pancakes
There and that's exactly what I mean. It's generally smooth, but you can actually see a few lumps
I've got a nonstick pan that I'm preheating just above medium
Now as a general rule the first pancake
You make is kind of your test a pancake got to figure out the right temperature for the pan
But always consider that first pancake the chef's privilege
No calories, and you simply make it disappear by eating it
Even though I'm using a nonstick pan. I like to grease the pan lightly with butter
more for the flavor and the nice even browning you get
Drop a ladle full of batter. I think I can fit three pancakes into this pan and
This is the point where I add my fresh blueberries
I drop them in the top of the pancake that way I can evenly distribute them and
Everybody gets the same amount of blueberries in their pancake
Because if you were to stir them into the batter
Some would float to the top some would sink to the bottom
And you could end up with a pancake with one blueberry a pancake got 12 blueberries well
That's not fair
And if blueberry pancakes aren't your thing you could do this same step with chocolate chips with sliced banana
raspberries whatever you choose I
Find when I cook pancakes that they cook about three to four minutes on the first side
And then when you flip them over they only take about two minutes more
You can tell when it's time to flip because you'll see the batter around the outside edge lose its shine that way you know
It's cooking from underneath
Now it's time to flip my pancakes
Mmm. I
Can really smell that lemon and you can see how the blueberry is cooking through just perfectly
And this is about the time when all the sleepyheads upstairs smell the pancakes and start trickling downstairs for breakfast
go
Touch the butter I
Think like so many people pancakes for me, we're a weekend treat, you knew it was Saturday when you could smell pancakes being made
You're making these on the weekend, and you have a few extra left
Just keep them in the fridge and then when it comes to Monday morning when you're in a hurry
Just take them out of the fridge pop them in the toaster for a few seconds, and you've got a quick breakfast on the go
This is gonna be my stack hot off the griddle of course you can't have a breakfast pancake without maple syrup
What a treat oh
They're so tender and warm got all those blueberries in there
So here it is a great classic breakfast pancake. Thanks for watching
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