Monday, October 24, 2011

Zucchini Pancakes

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This lady is a pancake genius! I was hesitant to try these but these are like fancy pancake house good pancakes. If you've ever been to Schmity's in Idaho Falls, they're like that. 

Sweet Zucchini Pancakes; serves 2 (5-6 pancakes)
  • 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 3 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup greek yogurt (I used sour cream..tastes the same)
  • 2 tablespoons melted butter
  • 1/4 cup water or milk (I used a slosh just enough to make them pancake consistency)
  • 1 mid sized not Mormon sized zucchini, grated
  1. Preheat a nonstick skillet or griddle to medium-high heat (350 degrees).  These pancakes are a little picky about temperature.
  2. Whisk dry ingredients together (flour through salt) and set aside.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk egg, yogurt, and melted butter together.   Combine dry and wet ingredients together and mix until just combined.  Fold in grated zucchini.  (OPTIONAL: if the batter is too thick, add water or milk a little at a time, until the batter consistency reaches the desired thickness.  For me, 1/4 cup was enough to thin the batter but keep them nice and fluffy, but you might not need it at all depending on how thick you like your pancakes.)
  4. Scoop 1/3 cup of batter onto the griddle and gently spread the batter if necessary.  When you see bubbles rising around the edges, flip the pancakes.  I found that some of the pancakes took as long as 10 minutes to cook (5 minutes per side).  Top with butter and maple syrup!

Quick & Easy Dinner Muffins

These are sooooo good. I found the recipe online after trying to find a quick biscuit like roll without mayonaise since I couldn't trick B into thinking there was no mayonaise in the other recipe I liked. Here is this one:


1 stick butter or 1/4 cup +2TBSP. olive oil
2 c. Bisquick
1 (8 oz.) sour cream

Melt butter, mix with sour cream, add Bisquick Spoon into ungreased muffin tin (fill tin half full) and bake at 425 degrees about 12 minutes. Yields 1 dozen.

I usually cut the recipe in half and put the melted butter into the sour cream and then mix. I like it that way better.