Carrot Pancake

Submitted by New Mommy and Lovin

"I always try to make meals as "healthy" as possible for my 1 and a half year old daughter. So, for breakfasts I've played around with ideas for pancakes. I decided to be adventurous and add carrots. Your first reaction might be "gross!" But it actually tastes rather good. My daughter loves them and eats them up."

 

• Ready In: 16mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 8-10

ingredients

• 1 cup wheat flour
• 1 tablespoon Splenda granular or 1 tablespoon sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 3⁄4 cup milk
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons applesauce or 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 0.5 (8 ounce) bag baby carrots

directions

1. In a bowl, mix together the dry ingredients [flour, sugar, b. powder, salt.].
2. Mix in the milk, egg, and applesauce.
3. Put raw, uncooked carrots in a food processor until very fine.
4. Stir the carrots in with the batter.
5. Spray your griddle or frying pan with cooking spray, then heat to 375 or medium heat.
6. Use 1/4 cup to measure out your pancakes. Cook pancakes until bubbly on top, then flip over until the other side is also cooked and golden.

Reviews

[Chef Deb]

Oh yes.....Used olive oil for the oil...brown sugar for sugar...1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1/2 tsp allspice, 1/4 tsp nutmeg....These are most excellent....These are going to college with my son, with homemade syrup that I made with brown sugar, water, vanilla extract....NO High Fructose corn syrup for us...These will be made as a staple pancake in our house.....Thank you, Thank you......

 

[amaris mom]

Great taste! I did add bout a tsp vanilla abstract and some cinnamon. The boys (2 and 1 yr old) ate them up.

 

[Rod Sayers]

Tastes great! I added some vanilla and stirred in sme dried cranberries at the end. Yummy!

 

[nola_rola]

I would have given them 5 stars, but there is not enough flavor as is. I added chopped pecans, used brown sugar instead of regular sugar, added all spice, cinnamon, dash of nutmeg, vanilla extract, and I also put a small bit of maple syrup in the batter. Also, I don't have a food processor so I put carrots in blender with milk. I used 6 oz of carrots because I couldn't tell if recipe called for 1/2 of an 8oz bag or 1/2 of 16 oz bag which is equal to 8 oz. Anyway 6 oz was delicious. I did have to add more milk though. I'm not a big vegetable eater and I wanted to start eating healthier and this recipe is an easy and tasty way to do just that. Thanks

 

[Vraklis]

I made one as intended, then added vanilla, cinnamon & raisins to the batter and cooked the rest that way, which I found tastier. This is a very moist pancake and tasty--especially for being so healthy. I used almond breeze for the milk & opted for applesauce instead of oil. I made a cream cheese spread for the topping made with 4 oz reduced fat cream cheese, 1/4 cup powdered sugar, 3 tbsp milk & 1 tsp vanilla. Yum!