I am a pancake fiend. I mean, anytime I can start my day with a dessert that masquerades as breakfast – I’m in. But it’s even better if I can manage to make a decadent meal healthy. And I love that there are tons of ways to make pancakes “healthy style” (as Ben says).
I’m not on a gluten free diet, so I didn’t specifically make these Pumpkin Pancakes g-free, but it’s just a happy bonus that they happen to be celiac safe 
Now, I love garbanzo beans so I was very excited to use garbanzo bean flour (Whole Foods find). Cooking with a new ingredient is always fun. But if you don’t have the desire to eat bean flour you can use any flour option.
Gluten Free Pumpkin Pancakes
Ingredients:
1/2c egg whites (or 2 eggs)
1/4c pumpkin
1/4c garbanzo bean flour (or flour of your choice)
1/2 tsp. each: pumpkin pie spice, stevia, baking soda, baking powder
dash o’ salt
1 tsp chia seeds (optional)
Directions: Mix all ingredients. Grease hot griddle well – since these ‘cakes don’t have oil in them they tend to stick. Cook. Top with syrup, peanut butter, bananas, olives, whatever. Eat.
Today’s toppings of choice where peanut butter, bananas and pumpkin butter. Sadly, I’m out of syrup.
I usually try to get 2 or 3 pancakes out of this batch. Cooking one massive pancake works, but is a daring feat to flip!
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The company also has a Gluten Free Community site for support and info if you’re g-free.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Udi’s Gluten Free. The opinions and text are all mine.
Question: Do you seek out new ingredients to cook with or eat? What new ingredient/ food have you tried lately??
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There is a really cool foodie pen pal exchange hosted by Lindsey of http://www.theleangreenbean.com . You are assigned to a blogger, & send them $15 with of foodie stuff via mail. So fun! Great to be introduced to different ingredients & snacks! It’s once a month.
I recently began baking with almond flour, I made some paleo pumpkin muffins the other day, they came out pretty tasty. On a garbanzo bean note, I also recently bought a bar called The Good Bean at WF-it had garbanzo beans, apricot, coconut and white chocolate-it was delicious!
I just tried garbanzo bean flour and made a delicious pizza crust out of it last night for dinner and it was so good! I can’t wait to use it again
YUM! I was thinking about making pancakes this morning and then I realized that I didn’t have any mix and was too afraid to attempt the pancakes from scratch…
Have you ever tried socca? It’s like a savory pancake/really thick crepe made from garbanzo flour. It’s super delicious (and really, really easy to make).
Yeah! I think that’s the reason I originally even bought this flour now that I think about it…
Those pancakes looks good! I’m not very adventurous when it comes to trying new foods, but I’ve been getting better. The newest food I’ve probably tried is quinoa.
I try to stick to the Bob’s Red Mill flours that are made in their gluten-free factory (the packages say GLUTEN FREE in huge letters on them if they were made in the separate factory). But pancakes (gluten-free or not) will always be amazingly delicious.
Those pancakes look delicious and easy. I love Bob’s Red Mill mixes…I’ve made the pizza one a few times. Will have to try to garbanzo mix!
I’ve been eating Paleo for 3 1/2 weeks now, so life has been constant experiment with new food. Almond flour, coconut flour, and full fat coconut milk have been some of my newest and most used ingredients.
That sounds like a fun experiment!!!
I bought some garbanzo bean flour last year and still haven’t used it…I wonder if it’s expired…if not, I’m making these for breakfast. Like, tmrw. Thanks for the recipe sista!
I get so jealous of all your pumpkin style recipes. I can’t get tinned pumpkin here or pumpkin pie spice
I’ll just drool!
I second the socca suggestion above – I just bought farina di ceci (garbanzo bean flour) and made some socca and then I made savoury pancakes (with an egg) with the flour. Really delicious.