Tea Time With Jo | Sourdough Discard Pancakes

Ingredients:

For every 4oz of Sourdough Discard you have, add the following:

-1 egg

-3/4 cup Almond Flour

-1 Tbsp of Coconut Palm Sugar

-1/2 Tsp each of Baking Soda and Baking Powder

Steps:

-Mix egg into discard. 

-Pour over dry ingredients and mix to combine well. Batter should be fluffy and thick but also pourable. 

-Heat a skillet over medium heat. Use butter, ghee, coconut oil or avocado oil to lubricate your pan. 

-Pour in desired amount of batter for pancake size of your choice. 

-Cook until the edges look dry and bubbles appear on the top, then flip and cook an additional 30-60 seconds. 

-Serve with butter and maple syrup, because, why not?!

Makes roughly 6 pancakes that are 4” in diameter. 

Notes: These pancakes should cook up nice and fluffy the way traditional buttermilk pancakes do. I don’t recommend any substitutions for this recipe. Using a liquid sweetener such as honey/maple syrup/agave might make the batter too runny. If you don’t have coconut palm sugar, you can just omit the sugar. The pancakes will have a slightly more sourdough flavor but adding maple syrup on top will quickly help you not notice. Using refined sugar is not my jam. It would still work in this recipe but it will make the pancakes more inflammatory to the body.

I do not recommend keeping a starter just for this recipe but you do you. I have not attempted this recipe with a gluten free starter but I’m not confident it will work as having some gluten (though fermented) does give the pancakes the strength to rise and get fluffy. 

I don’t tend to tolerate gluten very well with the exception of sourdough. I keep my starter small so as to avoid waste but every so often, I have too much and want to find ways to use it rather than discarding it. The fermented starter seems to settle well with me and it makes beautiful pancakes. If you have starter you need to discard, I hope you give this recipe a try. It is the easiest and simplest recipe I have found for using up sourdough discard and most the ingredients are in your cupboard. Enjoy!