My family loves pancakes, and we eat them almost every week. We usually make classic buttermilk ones, but sometimes we want something different, like these Sweet Potato Pancakes.
These pancakes are delicious, with a nice sweet potato flavor, and they taste amazing with pure Maple Syrup. Here is how I made them.
First I cut up a sweet potato and put it on the stove to boil in water. While it was cooking, I ground the grain for the flour in my WonderMill. For this recipe I used whole red winter wheat. It is a nice mellow tasting wheat, and I find it works well for breads.
I ended up with fine ground whole wheat flour, perfect for my pancakes.
After the sweet potatoes had boiled for about 20 minutes it was time to drain them and mash them. I have learned from prior attempts that this is the key step in sweet potato pancakes – for the pancakes to work well you need to make sure they are mashed very smoothly. Sweet Potato chunks in the final dish are not desirable! I just used a fork to mash them up and stir them until they were smooth.
Then it was time to mix the batter. Like most quick bread recipes in this one you combine all the wet ingredients together in one bowl and all the dry ingredients in another. Then you mix them together, being careful not to over mix.
This batter ends up thicker than standard buttermilk pancake batter, so you have to spread it out on the griddle with the back of a spoon.
I cooked up the pancakes, and we enjoyed them for lunch. Here is the recipe, which I modified from a recipe at allrecipes.com.
Sweet Potato Pancakes
Ingredients:
- 3/4 lb. sweet potatoes
- 1 1/2 c. wheat flour
- 3 1/2 t. baking powder
- 1 t. salt
- 1/2 t. nutmeg
- 1/2 t. cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 c. milk
- 1/4 c. melted butter
Directions:
- Peel and cube sweet potatoes, then boil in a pan of water for 20 minutes. Drain and mash well.
- Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon in one bowl. In another bowl mix the mashed sweet potatoes, eggs, milk and melted butter.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the sweet potato mixture and stir until just combined.
- Drop batter on a hot griddle and flip after 3 minutes or so, when pancake is brown.
