Pancakes with hot Apple Sauce
Information:
Pancakes made with wholegrain oats and wholemeal flour contain not only carbohydrates but plenty of fibre to make you feel satisfied longer. The eggs and the milk provide a good amount of protein, and the apples + lemon juice give you vitamins. For a better taste I prefer rapeseed oil (or canola oil) before olive oil for baking the pancakes. In any way fats with a high content of mono- or poly- unsaturated fats should be used instead of saturated fats, which means using plant oils is healthier than using fats from animal sources (like butter).
Rapeseed Oil (15ml = 1 tablespoon)
- Saturated fat: 1 gram
- Monounsaturated fat: 9 grams
- Polyunsaturated fat: 4 grams
- Vitamin E: 16% of the Daily Value (DV)
- Vitamin K: 8% of the DV
Using Cinnamon has a few health beneficial properties like:
- It is loaded with antioxidants
- Cinnamon has anti-inflammatory properties
- It reduces levels of total cholesterol, “bad” LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, while “good” HDL cholesterol remains stable
- Cinnamon can improve sensitivity to the hormone insulin
- Cinnamon lowers blood sugar levels and has a powerful anti-diabetic effect
- It helps fight bacterial and fungal Infections
- and more
Ingredients (2 servings):
Pancakes:
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp whole grain oats
- 2 tbsp wholemeal flour
- pinch of Bourbon vanilla
- 4 tbsp skimmed milk
Apple Sauce
- 3 apples
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- pinch of cinnamon
Preparation:
Apple Sauce:
Grate the apples with a grater into a saucepan, trickle the lemon juice over them and add the cinnamon. Simmer gently for 3 to 4 minutes and prepare the pancakes in the meantime.
Pancakes:
Put the eggs in a bowl and whisk until they become frothy. Gradually add all the ingredients and stir thoroughly. Leave it rest for moment to thicken. Pour some oil into a pan and fry the pancakes. If you use a coated pan, you don’t need to add any fat. Put the pancakes on plates, pour the apple-sauce on half and fold the empty half over the apple-sauce half. Serve and enjoy.
