If you love to eat pancakes, then try this delicious yet healthy blue spirulina pancake recipe using blue spirulina powder.
Spirulina is considered a superfood due to all the nutrients and powerful antioxidants it contains. It is a type of blue-green algae that is rich in protein, iron, and vitamin b. It also has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
Taking in spirulina can help improve your gut health, reduce cholesterol levels and blood pressure. It can also help to boost metabolism and even prevent heart diseases.
You can take spirulina in a tablet form or powder form. To include spirulina powder in your diet, you can add it to smoothies, sprinkle it on salads or soups, or use them for pancakes as I do. If you want some spirulina powder, you can get some online here.
The spirulina powder is not the only ingredient that makes this pancake recipe a healthy recipe. This recipe also contains almond flour and popped quinoa.
Quinoa is a grain crop with a lot of healthy benefits. As a plant food, it contains all the nine essential amino acids, which makes it a great ingredient for vegans to include in their meals because not many plant food contain all the nine essential amino acids.
To purchase quinoa, you can find some here. This quinoa is already washed and dried, so all that’s left to do is to pop it.
How to pop quinoa
Put a heavy-bottomed pot on medium to low heat. Once the pot heats, add the quinoa and wait until the quinoa starts popping. When the pot gets too hot, the quinoa will start to burn, so lift the pot from the fire and shake it once you start seeing flames. Put it back on the fire and wait until all the quinoa has popped.
You can enjoy your popped quinoa as a healthy snack or add it as toppings on food.
Blue spirulina pancake recipe
To make these blue spirulina pancakes, you start by mixing your flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt in one bowl. Then in another bowl, you mix the milk, vanilla extract, and eggs.
Then add all the ingredients together in one bowl and mix well. After that add 1-3 teaspoons of blue spirulina to it, depending on how colorful you want your pancakes.
Now, to fry your pancakes, spray your pan with oil and heat it to medium-low heat. After that, pour your batter on it and flip when one side has solidified enough to flip.
Once you are done, frying all the pancakes, stack them and top with peanut butter, popped quinoa, blueberries and raspberries.
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Blue Spirulina Pancake
Ingredients
- 2 cups Almond flour
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1-3 tsp blue spirulina
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
- 1 tbsp popped quinoa
- 2 eggs
- blueberries
- raspberries
Instructions
- Mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl
- Mix all the wet ingredients in another bowl
- Now add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredient and mix well
- Add 1-3 tsp of blue spirulina to it, depending on how colorful you want your pancakes
- Spray pan with oil and heat pan to medium-low heat.
- Now pour batter on and flip when one side has solidified enough to flip.
- Once you are done with all the pancakes, stack them and top with peanut butter, popped quinoa, blueberries and raspberries.