VEGAN PANCAKES + BLOOD ORANGE SYRUP RECIPE WITH HISTORIAS DEL CIERVO
If you're here because you are looking for a delicious, easy vegan pancake recipe that will come in handy on pancake day, then please scroll down and you'll find exactly what you're looking for. If you're happy to read how these vegan pancakes came to be, then do read on :).
My long term blog readers and my instagram tribe members know that I set off on a 5-week trip through South America last summer. It was a really important trip that allowed me to connect to my roots and discover an important part of my identity. You can read the blog post where I talk about all that good stuff by clicking here.
The trip also enabled me to meet the only (!!!!) other Colombian food blogger I know - Julian from Historias del Ciervo. We'd been instagram friends for a few years during which I gleefully watched his following grow exponentially and rejoiced when he was nominated for the Saveur Blog Awards in 2016. He is - to date, as far as I'm aware - the only South American blogger EVER to be nominated by Saveur. Can you imagine how inspiring that is? HUGELY!
It was lovely we had a chance to hang out during my travels and I was utterly grateful that Julian made time for me and my family, advising us on where in Medellin we should go during our short pit stop there. Needless to say we also spent lots of time geeking out about blogging and photography, which was totally awesome (though the man and the boy in my life may or may not have gotten a tiny bit bored of our conversation ;)).
I was delighted to be able to reciprocate the gesture and offer Julian advice on where to go and what to do when he came to London a few weeks ago. We also had enough time to hang out and create a recipe together and after some back and forth quickly decided on making these vegan pancakes with blood orange zest. SO GOOD! You can find his take on the day by clicking here. Do have a look because his photography skills are amazing!
Julian and I did a few LIVE videos of the styling process and I ''interviewed'' him, asking him about his creative process and how he finds inspiration.
Now before I leave you just a quick note to say that I will be teaching my food styling and food photography workshop in Madrid this week. I still have a lot of preparing to do so consequently, it will be rather quiet on instagram during that period. I'll also take a short break from blogging if you don't mind ;). All should be back to normal though week commencing the 26th of February. Thanks for your understanding. See you in a few weeks!
VEGAN PANCAKES + BLOOD ORANGE SYRUP RECIPE
This is my go-to, work-every-single-time, just-use-basic-corner-shop-ingredients pancake recipe, which I adapted from a recipe I found in Gena Hamshaw's book VEGAN. Making 1/3 of the batter green with matcha power and 1/3 of the batter brown with cacao powder is LOVELY, but totally optional, so no worries if you don't have either to hand. So hope you enjoy these as much as Julian and I did...
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 60 minutes + 10 minutes for the syrup (see tips to shorten cooking time)
Makes: 12-14 pancakes
INGREDIENTS FOR THE PANCAKES:
2 1/4 cups/530 ml plant-based milk (we used almond milk)
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
3 tbs of melted coconut oil + more for frying
zest of 1 blood orange
2 cups/250g plain white flour
2tbs golden caster sugar
1tbs baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbs cacao powder (optional)
1 tbs matcha powder (optional)
INGREDIENTS FOR THE BLOOD ORANGE SYRUP:
juice of 5 blood oranges
3.5 tbs of sugar
INSTRUCTIONS:
Place the wet ingredients (milk, apple cider vinegar, zest and melted coconut oil) in a large bowl. Set aside.
In another large bowl mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Mix well.
Next combine the wet ingredients with the flour mixture until just combined. Divide the batter into 3 batches (about 1 cup each), placing each in a large enough bowl. Keep one batter mixture as is, add 2 tablespoons of cacao powder to the second batch and mix until combined. Add 1 tablespoon of matcha powder to the last batter stir until combined.
Heat a small pancake pan (12cm) over a medium heat, add some coconut oil to the pan when it's hot. Then pour the plain pancake batter into the pan, using about 60ml of batter at a time. When bubbles form on top of the pancake and the bottom side looks golden brown, carefully flip the pancake over and brown the other side. Repeat until all the batter has been used. Then prepare the matcha batter in the same way and finally do the same with the chocolate batter.
As the pancakes are cooking, place the blood orange juice together with the sugar in a small pan. Over a low to medium heat reduce the juice until it has the consistency of a syrup, stiring throughout - this took us about 10 minutes or so. Set aside.
Once the pancakes are done, serve immediately and top with the blood orange syrup. DELICIOUS! Enjoy!
Tip 1: To speed up the pancake making process, consider getting a pan where you can fry multiple little pancakes at a time.
Tip 2: To keep this nut free, please use soya milk or a seed milk instead of the almond milk.
P.S. Looking for more vegan pancake ideas? Then why not try my super fluffy vegan pancakes? You can find them by clicking here.
P.P.S. Keen to see who else stopped by the studio? Then check out my other collaboration posts by pressing here.