Gluten-free Buckwheat Pancakes
When I created my Gluten-free Quinoa Pancake Recipe , I promised to give you a variation on it soon. That was six months ago. Since then I have been diligently trying to come up with a new twist on the recipe. Well, here is my variation: Substitute 1/2 cup of buckwheat flour for the 1/2 cup of quinoa flour. Why did that take me six months to figure out, when I was pretty sure that it would work from the beginning? Buckwheat is a fairly complicated foodstuff. It can be processed and milled in a variety of ways before it hits the shelf. I was trying to manipulate this recipe using a buckwheat flour that I wasn't familiar with, and which had a completely different consistency and grind than what I was used to. The flour kept absorbing too much of the liquid, producing a gummy, thick batter that was nearly impossible to cook. I ended up switching to Bob's Red Mill Organic Buckwheat Flour , even though it is not one of their specially processed "certified gluten