21DSD Recipe: Red Velvet Pancakes from Eat Your Beets

Hey folks! We're excited to share this recipe from Tricia Hughes of Eat Your Beets. This recipe fits perfectly in your 21DSD meal plan. Enjoy! – Diane and Team

Turn your ordinary Paleo pancakes into something special with these lovely red velvet pancakes! Sweetened with a green-tipped banana and colored with a baby beet, your eyes and your taste buds will thank you for this beautiful and nourishing breakfast.

LEVEL all         YIELD 15 pancakes

Ingredients:

• 6 eggs
• 1 green tipped banana
• 1 baby beet, trimmed & peeled (should be a bit smaller than a golf ball)
• 1/2 cup coconut flour
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 tsp raw cocoa powder
• cooking fat for frying pancakes (butter or coconut oil, etc.)

Preparation:

• In a blender, combine all ingredients & blend until well combined. You may have to stop occasionally to scrape the sides down.
• On a hot griddle or skillet, melt cooking fat. Using a spoon, ladle small circles of batter & spread them out with the spoon. Pancakes should be approx. 2-3 inches in diameter for easiest flipping. After a few minutes, quickly flip pancakes to the other side & use spatula to flatten them out.
• Once pancakes are all cooked, enjoy!
• Should make approx. 15 pancakes!

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Trisha Hughes is the founder & author of Eat Your Beets, a wife, & mom to 4 kiddos. She has a passion for health, specifically using food for healing her son’s auto-immune issues, while keeping a sensible outlook on balancing everything on her plate. She empathizes with the challenges of busy moms & works passionately to empower them to learn their way around a kitchen, feed their family real food, & keep a sense of humor when it all goes south. She continues to build on her community while providing daily, real food inspiration via Instagram. She’s also a contributor to the photography website Click It Up A Notch, where she gets to share her love of food photography & styling. She’s never said no to a fabulous pair of shoes.