Peanut Butter Coconut Pancakes

Over the years my appetite and my taste buds have changed. I used to skip breakfast and just eat food out of the vending machine at school. I was a 'snacker', opting to pick at things rather than eat full meals. These days I love a good home cooked meal and I actually prefer to eat breakfast foods a lot of the time. Quite often you'll find me eating porridge at dinner time and one of my favourite lunch time meals is pancakes.

I shared with you before my recipe for banana and oat pancakes, only four ingredients, healthy yet quick and easy to make. But as with anything eating the same thing all of the time can get boring so I've been experimenting with batters and I have come up with a new recipe for you to try. Introducing my peanut butter coconut pancakes.

Time to #lovealot with Aldi

Valentine's day is nearly here, good job I'm reminding you right!! Some of you (like my husband) may think that is just another day but there are many of us including myself that like to be romanced and this doesn't necessarily mean spending a lot of money. A simple gesture such as a card, a small bunch of flowers or even breakfast in bed go along way to show that you care.

Now as you know Aldi are the store that always want to save us money so I was challenged to come up with a recipe that was both reasonably price and showed off that I do indeed #lovealot

Well seen as my lovely husband tends to "forget" about Valentine's day, I decided to come up with a dish that was more suited for me. I am currently dieting but I do like a treat every so often and this simple meal that I've devised can be eaten as an indulgent breakfast or a yummy pudding. It also coincides with another day just around the corner, pancake day.

Abra-Ca-Debora Pancake Review and Giveaway

Pancake day is coming, 17th of February to be precise. Do you have your ingredients ready?? The girls and I were lucky enough to be sent a scrummy goodie box filled with pancakes from Abra_Ca-Debora. Lets be honest pancakes aren't just for pancake day, oh no they can be eaten any time, they are a huge breakfast favourite in our house.

Savoury Pancake Recipe

We love pancakes in this house, I put one of my favourite recipes up in a previous post for banana and oat pancakes but pancakes don't just have to be for breakfast or pudding, oh no I've found them great to have at lunch or dinner time too, they are quick and easy to make and the same as sweet ones, you can whatever filling you fancy in savoury pancakes. I recently found a recipe on Mumsnet and decided to give it a go, adding a few of my own ingredients, I opted for chicken, sweetcorn and cheese filling ….

Ingredients

* 115g Self Raising Flour
* 150ml Semi Skimmed Milk
* 1 Egg
* 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
* Pinch of Salt
* 1 Tin of Sweetcorn
* 1 Chicken Breast Cooked and Cut into Small Pieces
* 75g Grated Cheese
* Oil/batter for Cooking

Banana and Oat Pancake Recipe

I love pancakes but I was getting bored of having the same ones all of the time and because I am trying in vain to lose weight. This month I am joining in the OXO pancake day blogger challenge so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to try and conjour up a slightly healthier pancake recipe for us all to eat.

To make the challenge of making pancakes slighlty easier, OXO kindly sent me one of their flip & fold omlette turners, yes I know an omelette isn't a pancake but technically making them uses the same kind of processes!!

Ingredients

For the pancakes :

* 1 Banana
* 70g Porridge Oats
* 2 Egg Whites
* 1tsp Vanilla Essence

For the sauce :

* Peanut butter (I used crunchy but you can of course use smooth)

Preparation

* Mash up the banana with a fork.

* Place the porridge oats, egg whites and vanilla essence into the bowl with the banana.

* Using a hand blender, blend all the ingredients together.