These fluffy sugar-free pancakes are light and, spongy, and filled with melted blueberries! Dairy-free, gluten-free, and naturally sweetened with nutmeg and cardamom. Satisfying for all members of the family, therefore including the little ones too!
My favorite pancake recipe of all time happens to be a sugar-free pancake. And I didn't wake up and choose to make sugar-free pancakes either. In fact in all of my life until now I've never had pancakes sans sugar. And let me tell you something. Pancakes do not need that much sugar to taste good. I only learned this after starting and completing multiple elimination diets. I learned that even during the hardest elimination diet, I can still find something to make on the sweeter side. And you can too.
What is a sugar-free elimination diet?
- Common elimination diets can also be related to sugars.
- Some elimination diets remove all sugar including fruit sugar.
- While other elimination diets only remove processed sugars and keep natural sugars
- Other elimination diets only allow fruit sugars
What is an elimination diet?
- An elimination diet is where you remove a certain amount of foods as a test to decrease inflammation, find the root culprit of your symptoms and increase gut healing.
- An elimination diet can be used as a tool to see if someone is gluten sensitive, or sensitive to any other foods.
- Naturopaths, Medical Doctors, Health Coaches, Nutritionists, Chiropractors practice using the elimination diet as a functional medicine tool to decrease and heal.
- Common eliminations are gluten, dairy, tree nuts, peanuts, soy, coconut, sesame, shellfish, eggs, and corn.
- Less common but still real eliminations often related to food sensitivities are banana, broccoli, spinach, string beans, asparagus, pineapple, grains, seeds, ginger, chocolate, avocado, the sky is the limit here.
- Sometimes an elimination diet consists of one food removed. Often it's two, three, four, or more. There are many cases where food reactions take over and it's over 1o, 2o, and even 30.
- Common elimination diets can also be related to sugars.
What elimination diets feel like
Elimination diets can often feel and be really restricting. So restricting, that it's hard to create menu basics for yourself on a daily basis. Even for a longer period of time, say months and years, your diet lifestyle can feel monotonous with so many limitations. I have felt that from time to time through my food sensitivity journey beyond gluten-free.
The good news about elimination diets that most do not know about
- You can always find a way to create something sweet within your restrictions to satisfy that sweet craving.
- It will be different, and sweet will look different, but different isn't always bad.
- This is where your creativity and your experimentation get in the kitchen and start playing differently with ingredients. The kinds of ingredients that don't give you an allergic reaction or a food sensitivity reaction can range from a stomach issue to skin, to rashes, to face, to breathing, to anxiety, and everything in between.
- You're going to find new ways, new ingredients that love you including these stevia-sweetened berry pancakes with nutmeg and cinnamon. A combination I never would have thought of had I not had so many food sensitivities and a natural creative streak running through my body at all times. And the combination turning out to be so delicious that my whole family LOVED and RAVED over these. No one can tell that they are sugar-free. And even my most sugar loving family members were asking for the recipe. This is proof you can find yummy things to eat that nourish your body too.
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Free-from sugar-free pancakes ingredient checklist
- Gluten-free
- Dairy-free
- Soy-free
- Nut-free, tree-nut, peanut-free
- Refined sugar-free
- No added sugar
- Corn-free
- Banana-free
- Avocado-free
- Chocolate-free
4 ways to get flavor into your sugar-free pancake recipe
- Use vanilla extract or vanilla powder
- Pure stevia in its liquid form is always a great option (my affiliate code for the brand I love nu naturals)
- Giving yourself a dollop of fruits like berries to the mixture (frozen or fresh)
- Season with dessert spices to up the taste like nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom, and even clove
How to change the consistency of your pancake batter.
- To make these sugar-free pancakes taste fluffier use 2 jumbo eggs, organic
- To make these sugar-free pancakes taste like cake, use 3 large eggs, organic
- Both make the texture of these pancakes absolutely unreal!
I hope you enjoy this sugar-free pancake recipe as much as I do!
Sugar-Free Berry Pancakes {dairy-free, nut-free}
These sugar-free pancakes are light, spongy, fluffy, and filled with melted blueberries! No added sugar except stevia, and naturally sweetened with nutmeg and cardamom. Berry overload and deliciously gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free.
Servings: 1 serving
Equipment
- Stove
- Griddle pan
- Pancake spatula
Ingredients
- ½ cup sweet rice flour
- 2-3 tablespoon additional sweet rice flour
- ½ cup brown rice flour
- ½ cup quinoa milk or your choice of dairy-free plant milk
- ½ cup water
- ½ teaspoon xanthan gum
- ⅛ teaspoon nutmeg
- ⅛ teaspoon cardamom
- 10-15 drops liquid stevia
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-2 cups blueberries or cherries
- 2 tablespoon ghee or coconut oil for griddle
Instructions
- In a bowl mix together the sweet rice flour, brown rice flour, xanthan gum, nutmeg, and cardamom and set aside.
- In a separate bowl mix eggs with a hand mixer until well blended.
- Add eggs to dry flour mix and mix at medium speed till gooey and dough-like
- Then add in plant-milk and water starting with a low speed, and gradually higher speed and blend till smooth. Your batter at first will be somewhat lumpy, and that is ok. Continue mixing till smooth.
- Stir in vanilla extract and liquid stevia till well blended. Then mix in fruit of choice.
- Heat pan with gluten-free cooking sprays, ghee or coconut oil. Don't use all at once, use only as needed to create the pancakes.
- Create dollops of batter in the pan and spread with a spoon to flatten before allowing to cook.
- Cook pancakes on each side until lightly browned. Watch these like a hawk because they burn quickly. You can pat them down with your spatula if needed during the cooking process.
- Remove from heat, let cool, and enjoy. Feel free to add fruit, or maple syrup if tolerated.
Notes
- 2 jumbo eggs will make your pancake fluffier
- 3 large eggs will make your pancake cake-like
- Fruit choices can be raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, blueberries, green apples
- Ghee is another word for clarified butter. It’s a healthier source of butter but lactose is removed and can be found in specialty supermarkets and health food stores in the dairy section
- I use Flours and Xanthan gum by Bob’s Red Mill because I just like his brand
- You can use any non-dairy milk you want like Quinoa, Hemp, Oat, Coconut, Almond, Cashew, Flaxseed milk…
- If you can make homemade plant milk do it. If you can't don't worry. But note that there is a radical difference in taste and even ingredients between store-bought milk and homemade milk.
- Buy a nut bag here, if you plan on making your plant milk.
- When you can strive for organic! I always use organic eggs that are fed a vegetarian diet, without hormones and antibiotics.
- I also use organic blueberries and cherries.
- If you use cherries for this recipe slice them in half.
Baking tips:
- I also love using Bob's Red Mill gluten-free flours, however, you can use whatever certified gluten-free flours of your choice.
- Don't forget to always look for the certified gluten-free symbol on the packaging.
- Below this recipe is a step-by-step instruction picture guide to show you the process of making these pancakes.
Happy sugar-free pancake making!
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