Bean Breakfast Pancakes

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups navy beans
• 2 cups all-purpose flour, you can substitute wheat, but my fam doesn't prefer that in pancakes
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup skim milk
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract (optional)
• 1/4 cup flax seed meal (optional)
• 1/4 cup oat bran
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 tablespoons sugar

Recipe

• 1 drain navy beans (or cook up dry ones).
• 2 place beans, flax meal, and buttermilk in a blender or food processor. blend until you have a creamy batter-like consistency. remove to a large bowl.
• 3 whisk together egg yolks (preserving the whites) with the melted butter.
• 4 stir yolk/butter combination and egg whites, vanilla, almond extract, and sugar into the bean mixture.
• 5 combine flour, and baking powder, nutmeg, and oat bran.
• 6 add dry ingredients to wet ingredients, and whisk until just combined.
• 7 heat skillet and make just as you would pancakes.
• 8 serve up with maple syrup.