Looking for a fun St. Patrick's Day inspired breakfast? Then you have to make these St. Patrick's Day Pancakes! An easy, colorful and fun breakfast recipe.
1Tablespoongreen food coloring(liquid, gel or paste)
syrup and butter, for topping
Instructions
Combine dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt) in a large bowl. Make a deep dip in the middle of the dry ingredients. (This is where we will add the wet ingredients later.) Set this bowl aside.
Beat the egg in a medium bowl. Add in the oil and buttermilk and stir well. Stir in green food coloring (use gradually to create your desired saturation of green color). Pour this wet mixture into the well of dry ingredients inside the large bowl and combine thoroughly.
Mix it in, but only until just mixed. The batter will be lumpy. This is good for pancakes. You want it a little lumpy.
Heat your frying pan or griddle to about 250F degrees. Lightly grease with additional vegetable oil, then use a ¼ cup measuting cup to drop batter onto the pan.
When edges begin to look dry and bubbly, flip them over.
They are best served hot with butter and maple syrup, but you can also top with some whipped cream, sprinkles and lucky charms for St. Patrick’s Day!
Notes
You need to make a well in the dry ingredients. Making a well means creating an open space (or a large dip) in the middle of your dry ingredients where you can pour your wet ingredients, this helps you not to over work the mixture or dough.
You do not need to use the green food coloring if you do not like food coloring. The pancakes are amazing without it.
I use buttermilk in this recipe. In this recipe, you can use a buttermilk substitute. Add 1 ½ tablespoons of vinegar (or lemon juice) into a 2 cup measuring cup then fill the cup to 1 ½ total cups with regular whole milk. We want the total of this milk and vinegar mixture to come to 1 ½ cups for this recipe. Let this mixture sit for 5 minutes before adding it to the recipe. (This gives it a chance to thicken up.)
You can top these pancakes with whatever you want. These are regular pancakes that just have a green coloring but no additional flavor. So butter and syrup are the main toppings, but for fun, I topped them with whipped cream and Lucky Charms marshmallows to give it the holiday look.
It is important not to get these pancakes too brown or you won’t see the green! If they are browning too fast you may need to turn the heat down under your frying pan.
You can easily double this recipe to serve more people if you like!