Uncle Bill's Best Buckwheat Pancakes

Submitted by William Uncle Bill

"This is a Russian recipe that has been in the family for many years and has been a good change from the regular pancakes."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 2-3

ingredients

• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 large egg
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
• 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 6 tablespoons buckwheat flour
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons canola oil, for frying pancakes
• 1 teaspoon butter, for frying pancakes

directions

1. In a medium bowl, whisk together buttermilk, egg and 3 tablespoons of melted butter.
2. In another bowl, mix together, all-purpose flour, buckwheat flour, sugar, salt and baking soda.
3. Pour the dry ingredients into the egg-mixture.
4. Stir until the two mixtures are just incorporated.
5. Heat a griddle or large frying pan on medium-high heat.
6. In a small saucepan, add 2 teaspoons of canola oil and 1 teaspoon butter and let melt. Use as required to rub the griddle or frying pan before frying each batch of pancakes.
7. Spoon about 3 tablespoons of batter onto griddle or frying pan for each pancake to form 4 inch pancakes.
8. Fry until bubbles form on the top of the pancakes, about 3 minutes.
9. Flip them over and cook for another 3 minutes or until done.
10. Continue to fry pancakes with the remainng batter.
11. Serve with melted butter and syrup or your favorite jams.

Reviews

[Susan F.]

Very good! Made them with 6TB Brown Rice flour as I am gluten free. Came out perfect. Can't remember how long ago it was that I had a buckwheat pancake, but this brought back memories, good ones! I didn't know what I was missing using the boxed pancake mixes. I love the taste of these buckwheat ones!

 

[ambiencetogo]

Excellent. However, 1500mg is the recommended daily intake for sodium and this one serving is that and more, yikes! Will be playing with the ingredients to try and shave that number down.

 

[mianbao]

These are very good! I was a little concerned about the difference between Japanese buckwheat and that available in Canada and the US, because I have had some trouble with buckwheat recipes. For this reason, I didn't follow the recipe as to combining all the liquid ingredients and then adding them to the dry ones. Instead I added the egg, butter and only part of the buttermilk to the dry ingredients. As I had expected, 1 cup would have been too much liquid. I needed only about 1/2 cup. I do think this is an ingredient-related, rather than recipe-related problem. The pancakes tasted fine and disappeared quickly. Thank you for sharing your recipe with us.

 

[lacroido]

Great recipe. I added it to my breakfast cookbook. Yummy. I didn't have buttermilk so I soured regular milk.

 

[yedenmatka]

I forgot to give this it's well deserved 5 star rating so I'm doing it right this time. Great recipe!!!!