These Blood Orange Vegan Pancakes are light, fluffy and full of orange flavor. This recipe makes a big batch of pancakes and you will need it, they are that good!
- 1 blood orange or normal orange zest and juice
- ¾ cup almond milk
- 1 cup (250 ml) greek style yoghurt, full fat and non sweetened
- 2 tablespoon flaxseed meal mixed with 5 tablespoon hot water
- 2 cups (500 ml) flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoon sugar
- pinch of salt
- vegan butter for cooking
- 4 blood oranges
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- greek style yoghurt
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Start by adding the blood orange juice and zest, almond milk and yoghurt in a bowl. Mix and let sit for 5 minutes for the blood orange zest to infuse more flavor and for the almond milk to curdle into "butter milk".
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In a small bowl mix the flaxseed meal with the hot water, stir well and leave to thicken for 5 minutes to make flax egg. Add the flax egg to the milk and yoghurt mixture and mix well.
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Stir together the dry ingredients in a separate bowl, then add to the wet ingredients and stir to just combined. Be careful not to over mix the batter, then you will end up with dense and rubbery pancakes. And no one wants that!
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In a large skillet melt a little butter and ladle the batter in the pan. Fry the pancakes over medium heat until the bottom is golden brown and bubbles start to form at the top, about 2-3 min. Flip and cook for about 1-2 min more until golden brown.
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Juice ½ to 1 blood orange to get 2 tablespoon of juice. Mix this juice with the powdered sugar, if its too thick add a little more juice, too runny add a little more powdered sugar until you have desired consistency.
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Peel and slice the remaining oranges. Top the pancakes with a little yoghurt, blood orange slices and a drizzle of the glaze.
Enjoy!