Zucchini Pancakes

By Amanda Rose | Summer Squash

Jun 08

Zucchini Pancakes at FreshBitesDaily.comZucchini pancakes are a great meal for company or any time you need a special breakfast. They are quick, tasty, and make great use of over-grown zucchini. You can freeze your zucchini in advance and have the grated zucchini available all year round. You can freeze the pancakes themselves, as I discuss below.

We use spelt for a lighter, whole grain pancake. Wheat will be acceptable, but it simply does not have the lightness. We also prefer fresh ground flour that we grind ourselves in our kitchen. At the risk of getting too academic about pancakes, more of the enzymes stay intact in the cooking process and you end up with a pancake lower in the mineral inhibitor phytic acid. You can read more about phytic acid or simply move on to the important matter of the pancakes.

Zucchini Pancakes: Ingredients

  • 3 cups freshly ground spelt flour (or optional whole wheat)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 2 tablespoons baking powder
  • 2 tablespoons succanat or brown sugar
  • 4 eggs, beaten
  • 2 cups milk
  • 6 tablespoon coconut oil
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 cups grated zucchini

(Serves 4)

Zucchini Pancake: Steps

  1. Mix all the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder).
  2. Blend the wet ingredients in a separate bowl (sugar, eggs, milk, oil, vanilla, zucchini).
  3. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ones. Stir but do not over-mix. You will see the baking powder begin to work on the batter.
  4. Cook the pancakes on a medium-hot griddle dressed with coconut oil. Form the pancakes to be about three inches across. If you make them larger the outsides may burn before the center is cooked.

These pancakes make great leftovers. Simple refrigerate or freeze them for another day. Stack them with wax paper in between for best results. Warm them up again in butter.

As an option, you can batch cook these pancakes and freeze them with wax paper pieces in between. Pop them out of the freezer the night before and warm them up in butter — it is a quick, nutritious breakfast. If you forget to defrost them in advance, put the frozen pancakes in a hot skillet with a high smoke point oil, and put the lid on to avoid splattering oil. Check your pancakes in about two minutes. When they have browned, turn them over for another two minutes. Your time will vary based on your skillet temperature and altitude. Keep a close eye on the pancakes. Test a pancake for internal warmth before serving.

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Bethany
11 years ago

Thanks for the pancake reheating tips! That’s something I’ve never succeeded in doing well.

Bethany
11 years ago

Made these for breakfast (with whole wheat pastry flour). Excellent!

Amy
Amy
11 years ago

These are some of the best pancakes I’ve ever made, and I made them gluten free. Adding in some ground flax and chia. You couldn’t even tell the zucchini was in there. I also added chocolate chips.

Coral Anderson
Coral Anderson
11 years ago

My kids LOVE these! We are gluten free, so I used sorghum & millet flours with one addition of 3/4 tsp xanthum gum. Also, my little two year old cannot have dairy or nuts or coconut. So we used a combo of sunflower seed milk (homemade) and carrot juice to sweeten them. Instead of coconut oil, we used olive oil. This is simply a fabulous recipe, and we are so grateful to you!!!
“This is DELICIOUS!!!” says my six year old daughter Poppy.
You made some mouths and bodies very happy.

Louis Gervais
11 years ago

What an interesting idea! I am going to give this a shot this weekend! Yum.

Renata
Renata
11 years ago

I have popped frozen pancakes into the toaster. Got the idea from eggo waffles.

Arla
Arla
10 years ago

I’ll be trying this recipe soon. Someone mentioned carrot juice, and I wanted to comment that I use carrot juice for milk with cold cereals. I love it.

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