Yummy Almond Banana Pancakes (Gluten-free of course!)

I found this yummy recipe for banana almond pancakes (gluten free of course) but I needed to tweak and perfect it before I could post it.  My version uses both almond meal and flaxseed meal as gluten-free flour substitute.

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups almond meal

¼ cup flax seed meal

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda 

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

3 ripe bananas

2 eggs

Coconut oil or butter for greasing pan

Prep Time: 15-20 minutes               Cook Time: 20 mins (depends on how many pans you have on the stove top)

1.  Mix all dry ingredients in a large size bowl. Whisk to combine.

2. Mix eggs and banana in a separate bowl.  Use the back of a fork or spoon to mash the bananas.  Once the big pieces are mashed, pour the mixture into a blender and blend for 10- 15 seconds or until smooth.
3. Pour banana mixture into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Use a whisk to combine the batter.
4.  Heat pan over medium heat and grease the pan with coconut oil or butter.
5. Use ¼ cup measuring spoon to spoon batter into the pan.  Use the back of the spoon to spread batter a little.  The batter is thick so if you don’t spread the batter with a spoon, the pancakes will be too thick to cook through. Flip the pancakes after 4 minutes, depending on heat.
6.  Transfer pancakes to a parchment lined baking sheet and finish cooking in the oven for 4 minutes at 350 degrees.  I finish them in the oven because gluten-free recipes tend to burn easier and take longer to cook than normal pancakes.  I use the pan to brown each side and cook them about 75% of the way through, the oven just finishes the cooking the middle of the pancake.

Variations
- I also made these with sweetened shredded coconut.  Add 1/4 cup to ½ cup of shredded coconut.  However this addition adds a lot of sugar.  You could try them with unsweetened shredded coconut as well.
- These taste great with blueberries too! I added blueberries to one of my pancake batches because I love banana blueberry smoothies and they turned out great.
- Haven’t tried these with chocolate chips yet but I’m sure they would be amazing!

Hard to tell from the pic but the batter is pretty thick.

YUM!!