Tuesday 20 March 2018

Jessica’s Marinated Chickpeas

Cookie and Kate
Jessica’s Marinated Chickpeas

marinated chickpea salad

My friend Jessica’s new book is here, and I’m so excited for her! The Pretty Dish is bursting with 150 colorful, flavor-packed recipes in Jessica’s true How Sweet Eats style, and all of them can be made in under 60 minutes. Well, slow cooker recipes excluded. Plus, she included 50 beauty DIY recipes. Homemade bath melts? I’m into that.

Jessica is as bubbly, witty and adorably self-deprecating in person as she is in writing. Her enthusiasm is infectious, and the book’s cover is the most perfect representation of her colorful personality and the vibrant recipes inside.

marinated chickpeas ingredients with The Pretty Dish cookbook by Jessica Merchant

I was drawn to this chickpea recipe because it’s so simple and reminds me of some of my favorite deli salads. These marinated chickpeas with feta and basil are spicy and garlicky.

They’re a little sweet, too, thanks to the roasted red peppers and a touch of honey. They strike an irresistible balance between the two, and I could not stop going back for more.

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A Sweet Pea Chef
Banana Oat Blender Pancakes
Banana Oat Blender Pancakes

Making pancakes has never been easier with these banana oat blender pancakes.  Learn how to use a blender to make these easy blender pancakes. This post is sponsored by Horizon Organic.

Banana Oat Blender Pancakes | Making pancakes has never been easier with these banana oat blender pancakes. | A Sweet Pea Chef

The other day, I was in the kitchen with Jordan, my 8 year old, and I said I felt like having pancakes.

She quickly ran to the pantry and sadly announced we don’t have any pancake mix.

I realized this was a teaching moment to show her how you don’t need pancake mix to make pancakes. Heck, you don’t even need flour!

So I grabbed some rolled oats, Horizon Organic whole milk, a banana, and a few other super simple ingredients, and my blender.

All the ingredients required for how to make banana oat blender pancakes, including rolled oats, banana, baking powder, egg, sea salt, greek yogurt, and milk. Ready to blend. Overhead view of the blender filled with the ingredients for how to make easy banana oat blender pancakes, including the banana, cinnamon, baking powder, rolled oats, and milk.

Jordan was super confused. Why did I need a blender for pancakes?  Then, I added the ingredients into the blender, blended it, and started making BLENDER PANCAKES.

“Wow,” she said.  Yep: Wow!

And then we enjoyed some tasty banana oat blender pancakes.

Overhead view of a blender that is making the blender pancake mix for the banana oat blender pancakes Overhead view of a griddle that is greased with coconut oil and a spatula is flipping a cooked banana oat banana pancake to the other side to show how long to cook a pancake before flipping.How To Make Blender Pancakes

Using a blender to make pancakes is awesome. Not only are they super easy, but you can add all sorts of flavors you might not have originally tried because you can purée it all together.  If you don’t have a kitchen blender, you could also use a food processor.  And, shoot, if you don’t have a food processor or a blender, you could just mash everything together and just have non blended pancakes — they’ll be pretty lumpy, but the flavors will be tasty.

To make blender pancakes, you just need a liquid, a binder, and whatever flavors you’d like to add. In these banana oat blender pancakes, I use Horizon Organic whole milk and whole fat Greek yogurt for the liquid, an egg, rolled oats, and a banana for a binder, and some cinnamon and vanilla extract for flavor. It’s so easy.

In other words: All real ingredients, nothing processed.

Also: Easy.

Side view of a large stack of banana oat blender pancakes, next to a large glass of milk and a carton of whole milk. Side view of a large stack of blender oat banana pancakes, topped with fresh raspberries and bananas.

What Are Oat Flour Pancakes?

One of the absolute coolest things about these easy pancakes is that they use oat flour…by blending oats!

This means we can use whole rolled oats for the base which adds fiber, protein, and other nutrients. The oat flour replaces any need for regular flour which, especially in most store bought pancake mixes, is just bleached, highly refined all purpose flour.

Overhead view of a stack of banana oat blender pancakes that are next to sliced bananas, a glass of milk, and fresh raspberries, ready to eat.

How To Make Banana Oat Blender Pancakes Gluten Free

If you’d like to make these blender pancakes gluten free, you would just need to use gluten free rolled oats instead of regular oats.  Otherwise, all the other ingredients in these pancakes are gluten free.

Banana Oat Blender Pancakes
Banana Oat Blender Pancakes

Making pancakes has never been easier with these banana oat blender pancakes.  Learn how to use a blender to make these easy blender pancakes.

1 cup rolled oats, (uncooked) 1 banana 1 egg 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 cup Horizon Organic plain yogurt 1/2 cup Horizon Organic whole milk 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 tbsp coconut oil, (for greasing pan) pure maple syrup, (for topping) banana slices, (for topping) fresh raspberries, (for topping)
In a kitchen blender or food processor, add the rolled oats, banana, egg, cinnamon, Horizon Organic plain yogurt, Horizon Organic whole milk, vanilla extract, and baking powder. Blend until completely smooth. Heat about 1 tsp. of coconut oil over medium-high heat in a griddle or skillet. Once the pan is hot, pour approx. 1/3 cup of the batter onto the hot pan. Cook the pancake for 2-4 minutes, until the edges begin to turn from shiny to dull and bubbled appear in the center of that pancake. Flip and cook an additional 2-3 minutes, or until golden-brown. Repeat with remaining batter. To serve, you can drizzle with some pure maple syrup and top with fresh raspberries and sliced bananas.

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