zucchini pancakes

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plain or with chocolate chips, you are going to flip for these zucchini pancakes

i don’t think i have shared a pancake recipe here in a long time. probably because pancakes are not exactly on my weight watchers plan. i make 0 point pancakes ^[4] all the time, but i have very little willpower when it comes to a tall stack of fluffy pancakes. so they haven’t happened much around here this summer.

but then i had the crappiest of days and found myself totally craving pancakes drowning in butter and syrup. with tomorrow being national zucchini day and a garden that is still producing the best zucchini i have ever eaten, i made myself zucchini pancakes.

when pancakes are made with vegetables they can’t be that bad for you right? it doesn’t even matter; they were so totally worth the cheat.

the kids were not convinced that eating vegetables for breakfast was something they wanted to do. so i jacked their zucchini pancakes up with chocolate chips. kids will never say no to chocolate. even if it means eating zucchini for breakfast.

Print Recipe ^[5]

Yield: 4 servings

zucchini pancakes

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup of milk
• 2 eggs
• 3 Tbsp butter, melted
• 2 Tbsp honey
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup of grated zucchini
• chocolate chips (optional)

 

Directions:

• preheat a griddle or skillet over medium heat
• whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt
• in a separate bowl whisk together the milk, eggs, butter, honey, and vanilla
• pour wet ingredients over the dry and stir just to combine (will be lumps)
• gently fold in the zucchini
• spoon 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake onto the griddle (add chocolate chips if using)
• when bubbles begin to appear on the pancake tops flip carefully and cook until the undersides are golden brown
• serve immediately topped with butter and syrup
• pancakes can be kept warm in a 200 degree oven while you finish the batch

  

i could eat zucchini pretty much any way you want to serve it. raw in salads ^[6], sauteed with tomatoes, stuffed with tuna ^[7], roasted, in pasta, but really for me it is hard to beat a loaf of zucchini bread ^[8] or a stack of zucchini pancakes.

enjoy!