Pancakes are one of my favourite things to eat in the whole world. I recently bought a Gluten Free Pancake Mix made with buckwheat & wholemeal rice flour from Amisa Organic. I have to say, these are the best pancakes ever!
Growing up, pancakes were reserved for Shrove Tuesday & pretty much no other day. My Mum used to just make a standard mixture using flour, eggs & milk which I cannot fault.. I still use it sometimes (with gluten free flour these days of course!)
Nevertheless, I am always up for trying different types of pancakes made with different ingredients… so long as they are still Gluten Free! The Amisa Organic Gluten Free Pancake Mix caught my eye when I was in Holland & Barrett recently. It’s been a good few months since Pancake Day & I liked the idea of the mix being made with a mix of buckwheat & rice flour. I thought this might give more flavour to the pancakes, compared to the regular plain flour that I use. When using plain gluten free flour I feel like the pancakes are there purely to facilitate the filling; I hoped that this gluten free pancake mix would provide more flavour with the use of these different wholegrain flours.
Similarly to making any pancake mix, to the dry mix you just need to add milk & an egg. However, it also says to make these pancakes egg free/vegan it would be fine to add just soya milk & no egg at all!
The box has two separate bags of the gluten free pancake mix in it, so you might just like to open one bag for two people & leave the other bag for another pancake session. Alternatively you could use both bags & make tons of pancakes! (We used 1 1/2 bags!)
It is so easy to mix together, and you don’t even need a whisk, a fork is definitely sufficient if you haven’t got one to hand.
Gluten Free Pancake Heaven… tuck in!
We made a rather large stack of pancakes using the gluten free pancake mix. They cooked within minutes in the frying pan. They are easy to flip over, and come out golden. For me it was nice to have a stack of thicker, more american style pancakes. I have been so used to eating thin crepe like pancakes in the past (which I still love!), but these slightly thicker ones really hit the spot!
They had a great flavour that I think came from the buckwheat flour. I have eaten quite a few thin pancake style galettes in recent months which have a similar sort of flavour. It’s nice for the pancakes to have depth in flavour, without it being sweet. Heck, I put enough delicious sweet toppings on my gluten free pancakes, I don’t want the pancake itself to taste sweet too!
My pancake toppings on this occasion were:
- Homemade Cinnamon Apple Compote & Pecan Nuts
- Homemade ‘Healthy’ (3 Ingredient) Nutella, Bananas & Strawberries
I used to be a huge fan of lemon & sugar and golden syrup. But these days I am having to seriously cut down the refined sugar in my diet. I really think the toppings I have now are the best! (Mark agrees.. he does add some extra maple syrup to his too though!) It is good to be able to make your own toppings from scratch & know exactly what is in them.
We had a few left over & kept them in an air tight container & had them for lunch, warmed up two days later. They still tasted amazing! I really want to try this gluten free pancake mix with some savoury fillings too. I remember when I was younger I made filled savoury pancakes at school. We filled them with ham & cheese, topped them in a sauce & baked in the oven! I really think these pancakes would work really well like that too! (Watch this space I guess!)
Where can you buy Amisa Organic Gluten Free Pancake Mix?
You can grab the Gluten Free Pancake Mix from a range of different places across the UK and beyond. The likes of Ocado, Planet Organic, Real Foods, Goodness Direct and Holland & Barrett allow you to buy it online. Plenty of Supermarkets stock it as well. Additionally a HUGE amount of local, independent shops across the UK also sell it. Click here to find one close to you.
Have you tried the Amisa Organic Gluten Free Pancake Mix? What did you think? Do you have any other gluten free pancake mixes you like? Or do you always make your own from scratch? Let me know by leaving a comment below, or on Facebook/Twitter.
Thanks for reading,
Becky xxx
