Last updated on May 11th, 2017
Meet my newest addiction: Chickpea Pancakes topped with Wild Blueberry Sauce. The nutty-tasting, gluten-free pancakes are high in protein and fiber. And oh, the sauce! I make it with frozen, store-bought wild blueberries, plus local honey and a dash of fresh lemon juice. The flavor combo is pure poetry.
Here’s the recipe in video format (just click the “play” arrow), followed by a pictorial step-by-step (a printable version can be found at the end of this post):
The pictorial version:
This recipe begins with 2 cups of wild blueberries. To obtain then, lace up your hiking boots and head for the hills of Maine. Or, do what I did, and simply purchase them frozen in a bag at the local supermarket.
Then set a saucepan over medium-high heat, add the berries, along with a half cup of local honey. Local honey is the best honey of all.
And speaking of local honey…how many of you maintain bee hives on your property? You can let me know by posting a comment. The topic of bee-keeping always fascinates me.
Also add 1 cup of water…
And the juice from 1/2 a lemon. If you’d like to add the juice from an entire lemon, I won’t stop you.
Bring the mixture to a boil while stirring occasionally. Also, inhale deeply! The scent that arises from the bubbling mixture will make you swoon.
Now mix 2 tablespoons cornstarch with 2 tablespoons water, and add the slurry to the boiling pot. Stir gently until the sauce thickens appreciably — about 20 seconds. Remove the pot from the heat.
Transfer the mixture to a jar, a bowl, or the blue and white gravy boat you purchased at a tag sale 15 years ago.
And by the way, you needn’t reserve the sauce just for pancakes. It’s also delicious on waffles, ice cream, yogurt, and more.
To make the Chickpea Pancakes, tip 1 cup of chickpea flour –officially, it’s called “Garbanzo Bean Flour” — in a medium bowl.
Note: Can’t find Garbanzo Bean Flour at your supermarket or health food store? I ordered mine from this online source.
Add 1 teaspoon of baking powder…
And a pinch of salt.
Violently whisk the the ingredients to combine.
With a song in your heart, pour 1 cup milk into a separate bowl or a 1-quart glass measure.
Add 1 large egg…
1 tablespoon olive oil…
1 teaspoon vanilla extract…
And 1 tablespoon sugar. You can omit the sugar if you must, but I think it contributes to the awesomeness of the pancakes. Whisk the wet ingredients thoroughly to combine them.
Now add the wet ingredients to the dry…
And whisk them together. Don’t over mix! For fluffy pancakes, the batter should be slightly lumpy.
Ladle, by the quarter-cupful, the batter onto a hot, greased skillet. I heated my cheap but trusty electric skillet (details here) to 300°F.
Cook the cakes until bubbles form on the surface — 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Then flip ’em over, and brown the other side.
Put a healthy stack of pancakes on a plate…
Add a pat of you-know-what…
And finish with the breathtakingly-beautiful Wild Blueberry Sauce.
YUM.
Does this easy and delicious recipe appeal to you? You can let me know by leaving a comment below. And to make my life worth living, please subscribe to my YouTube channel!
As promised, here’s the printable recipe:
This is what the angels eat for breakfast in heaven. Both the pancakes and the sauce are gluten-free.
Ingredients
- 1 cup garbanzo bean (a/k/a “chickpea”) flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Optional: 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 cups fresh or frozen wild blueberries
- 1/2 cup local honey
- 1 cup water
- The juice of half a lemon (about 2 tablespoons)
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch, blended with 2 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Heat a skillet or griddle over a medium flame, or warm an electric skillet to 300°F. Grease the skillet with vegetable spray.
- In a medium size bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the milk, egg, olive oil, vanilla, and the optional sugar. Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and beat them with the wire whisk just to combine. Don’t overmix –the batter should be somewhat lumpy.
- Ladle, by the quarter-cupful, the batter onto the hot surface. When air bubbles appear along the edge of the pancakes, flip them over to brown the other side. Serve hot or warm with the following sauce:
- Wild Blueberry Sauce: Set a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the blueberries, honey, water and lemon. Bring the mixture to a boil while stirring occasionally. Then add the cornstarch mixture, and stir for 20 seconds or so, until the sauce thickens. Spoon the sauce over the pancakes (it's delicious on yogurt and ice cream, too!), and enjoy.
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Dan Fennell says
Hi Kevin,
I have to admit despite all the time I’ve spent working on the site I haven’t really had a chance to appreciate your great recipe ideas. I’ll have to start by making this one. Cheers!
Dan
Kevin Lee Jacobs says
Hi Dan – Thanks for working on this site, and thanks for commenting. Hope you’ll give this recipe a try!
Jean says
Gosh, I already have the sauce. Thanks for the tip on the garbanzo flour. So healthy! I will get some at my local discount store. They carry a complete line of Bob’s here in little RI. Love your posts!
Dee says
Hi Kevin….I wonder if your website problems are the same as mine….did you move to a new server….find it very difficult to maintain webpage when I know nothing about IT……but I do know I’m going to try those pancakes!
The sauce alone sounds fantastic.
Angel wings :-))
lise says
i am making these, taking them to work for my fellow nurses! on sunday as they have to work…. it is Nurses Week, i think they will appreciate them when i come in with them ! yummy!
Kevin Lee Jacobs says
Hi Jean – Enjoy the pancakes and sauce!
Hi Dee – Yes, I moved the site to a new server (Media Temple). The old one (Linode) didn’t work well with WordPress.
Hi lise – Every week should be Nurses Week. Hope you and yours love the pancakes/sauce as much as I do!
Joni D. says
I am trying this!! Perfect morning for reading recipes – sipping coffee, watching my birds and reading recipes! Doesn’t get any better than this! Well, will get better when I start cooking!
Bonnie says
Amazing photo of the egg falling into the batter! Love your site, Kevin. Inspired by the boxwood but it would never make it here.
Gene says
Looks so good, my son comes home this weekend. This will be his and my breakfast treat.
Thanks so much
Susan says
Thank you, Kevin. That sounds fabulous! I’ll try them! Sincerely, Susan
Nancy says
Thank you again for your efforts in the kitchen. And especially for your sense of humor!
Carol says
Oh my; I absolutely love blueberries, and pancakes. What a great way to end the week finding this delicious, scrumptious-looking recipe. You always make me smile. I’m starting to clean out 3/4 acre of weeds from a wooded area. Your website and ideas have been a great inspiration. Thank You!
Sherry Pace says
As always, just love your recipes. I don’t need GF, but may try it anyway just because I love chickpeas and have the flour in my cabinet to try your Cecina (sp?) and a steamed Indian bread with Cilantro! Yum. Good luck with the new server. IT problems are the worst – even worse than car problems….Say “hi” to Lily – I didn’t see her supervising, perhaps she is not a fan of pancakes & blueberries?
Terri says
Kevin,
I have recently found out that I can not eat gluten and eggs any longer. Do you know what I could replace the egg in this recipe with. I really miss eating pancakes.
Thank you,
Terri
Andree Dionis says
Hi Kevin, I’m diffenitly making those Chickpee pancakes! Love watching you make it on the video makes everything easier when you go about it yourself for the first time. Your a gem! I always look forward to your weekly posts and refer to your site when I want to get a good recipe. Happy Mothers Day!
Verlie Whitlock says
Um, just a thought…if we have no chickpea flour, could canned chickpeas be used? Drained, mashed, and adding only the liquid items needed, i.e., egg and vanilla…? Since I haven’t tried this, I have no idea what the consistency of the result might be, but it would be fun to experiment! The only problem, perhaps, might be if salt has been added to the can(s)…
Johanna says
Yammie, glutenfree, thank you I like pancakes!
Trudi says
YUM! We just had them for a late lunch! Everything was wonderful! It looks like we have the dame favorites ..Now I’ll go read the boxwood post. I tried it 40 years ago with cuttings from Mt Vernon ….. The one that Geo Washington lived in, not the one in NY….when we lived in NY. time to do it again in Ga.
Kevin Lee Jacobs says
Hi Trudi – So glad the recipe worked out for you!
kiwisue says
love, love, love this new site – looks fabulous dahling !!
well done 🙂
Lizee A. says
Made the Chickpea pancakes this morning. Fresh strawberries from the garden and as you said very filling. A douse of Maple syrup and very delicious. Delighted to see the egg whites did not have to be beaten before folding into the batter. Thank you and owe enjoy many of your recipes.
Laura Munoz says
There is absolutely no doubt that I am going to make some of those pancakes. They are a diabetic’s dream. Thank you-thank you-thank you!!!!!
Dana says
I just made these and they have exceeded my expectations! I’ve made savoury pancakes with chickpea flour and found them ‘too beany’. Not these. Highly recommended.
Kevin Lee Jacobs says
Hi Lizee A. and Dana – Music to my ears. So glad you enjoyed the pancakes!
Franceen Elias-Stein says
These look delicious and easy to make. I’ll definitely try them for Father’s Day!
Cynthia Shultz says
looks so good. Definitely making them for a crowd on Memorial Day.
Pam says
Looks amazing! BTW – my husband and I keep bees. Third year. There’s nothing like the raw honey. Harvested 4 gallons last year off of one hive. Just got our new bees last week. Both hives did not survive the WI winter It’s so nice to have them back buzzing around on all the flowers starting to bloom (think dandelions). Thanks for all your recipes. Great pics!
Addie Bambridge says
Hi, Kevin – I’ve just started the Paleo regime – do these scrumptious-looking pancakes qualify?
It seems to me that they would. And I think I would have to replace the cornstarch with something else.
Thanks for all you do so well :-))
Addie in Florida says
Well, Kevin, it looks like they aren’t Paleo since legumes are off the list – I could cry; they look so good I might just cheat a little!
Kevin Lee Jacobs says
Hi Addie – Hope you’ll try these pancakes (and the luscious blueberry sauce) when you finish your Paleo program!
Andree Dionis says
Just made these pancakes for lunch! Epic! Thanks Kevin
Colleen Thompson says
Going to try but I tell you they couldn’t be better than my cornmeal with almost identical ingredients.