Fall
Melon and Cheese Pancakes
- Serves four adults and one four year old
Author Notes
I have a grandson who loves pancakes, being that his Father is in the medical field he deemed that regular pancakes was not giving his child a good healthy breakfast. So I put my imagination to work to come up with a breakfast that would appease both. —Joanne Tranquille Ferrari
What You'll Need
Ingredients
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4
free range large farm eggs
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1/2 cup
plain yogurt, no color, preservatives, or corn starch
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1 cup
Traditional Ricotta
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3/4 cup
Pure Almond Milk no sugar
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1 teaspoon
Homogenized Organic milk
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1 1/2 cups
Sifted white flour no preservatives
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1/2 cup
Almond Flour
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1/2 cup
Hazelnut Flour
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2 tablespoons
Baking powder
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2 tablespoons
Avocado oil
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1/2 cup
Grated or shaved Balderson Mild White Cheddar, you may use white cheddar of your liking.
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1 cup
Small Round Seedless Watermelon, balls used to make nose and inside of eyes of pancake face.
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15 pieces
of watermelon shaped into eyebrows, oval eye shape and mouths
Directions
- This can be served even in winter if you freeze watermelon juice and make rest of facial features. At one point I even have made the strips for the hair out of the Watermelon. Very cute but healthy breakfast,
- Step One Eggs to be at room temperature, crack each egg and place Whites into bowl one and yolks into bowl two
- Step Two: Beat yolks with electric beater until light and fluffy. Set to one side
- Step Three: Beat whites with electric until nice and firm. Set to one side
- Step Four: Add following ingredients, (beating after each addition) to yolks. Yogurt, Ricotta, Almond Milk, and Homogenized Milk.
- Dough should be smooth no lumps, now add the three sifted flours. Beat gently after each addition. Then fold in baking powder, and Avocado oil.
- Take cheese and gently fold into batter, then the whites. Dough should be light and fluffy. (If needed add more watermelon liquid, or flour to accomplish the consistency of a light pancake dough. I have found that some days I need to add nothing, or other days one or the other. Seems to depend on the weather at times.
- Use pancake grill, as per instructions of brand. When pancakes are made place a pancake into each dish. With use of balls and cut watermelon strips make faces. Even Watermelon hair can be added. Adults and children enjoy the watermelon healthy face pancakes,
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