These gluten free buckwheat beet pancakes have beetroot and blueberries, giving them a wonderful pink colour and lovely subtle flavour. They're absolutely tasty and a perfect Valentine's breakfast.
*Updated original post from Feb 2014
Heart-Shaped Beetroot Pancakes
These pancakes make a beautiful, healthy, pink treat for Valentine's breakfast, lunch, dinner or dessert. That's the great thing about pancakes, they can be eaten any time of day. They're gluten-free and full of flavour.
When the kids want to cook their own dinner, often it will be spinach and cheese pancakes, or if they want a treat or dessert, they can make beetroot or carrot cake pancakes. They're customisable and so easy to make into shapes.
These buckwheat pancakes are a lovely way to say 'I love you' and this is one pink confection that is free from the evils of food colouring.
The beet pancakes have a very subtle flavour from the earthy beets, which works well with the vanilla. They're lovely just with syrup, but I like them with a dollop of plain yogurt, a sprinkling of blueberries and a drizzle of maple syrup.
It's easy to make heart pancakes - just pour the batter into a piping bag or bottle and make heart shapes in the pan, then fill them in.
Beet Pancakes
Crafternoons are pretty hardcore around here, so hearty (boom, boom) buckwheat pancakes are a great way to start or end the day, particularly when they're pink and heart shaped.
The batter for these is quite thin, so is easy to pipe or pour into a heart shape if you wish. Roll them up around ice cream or whipped cream for dessert or drizzle them with chocolate sauce or raspberry coulis - there are so many options. You could also adapt this recipe into beet-filled fluffy American-style vegan pancakes.
If you like your pancakes thicker, just add an extra tablespoon of buckwheat flour.
How to Make Beet Pancakes - Step 1: Whisk the dry ingredients together, then add the beet puree.
How to make buckwheat beet pancakes: Step 2 - Add the milk and vanilla and mix into a batter.
Get the Gluten Free Buckwheat Blueberry Beet Pancakes Recipe
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Buckwheat Beet Pancakes with Blueberries
Ingredients
- 115 g buckwheat flour
- pinch salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cooked beet pureed (about 3 heaped tablespoons) (roasted, boiled or vacuum packed without vinegar works)
- 200 ml milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 50 g butter (½ a stick), melted
- 100 g blueberries
- 1 tablespoon oil for frying
Instructions
- In a large bowl, add the flour, salt and sugar and stir to combine.
- Mix in the egg and beetroot puree, then stir in the milk, vanilla and melted butter.
- Set the batter aside to rest for half an hour.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Drop tablespoonfuls of batter into the pan and allow to spread out. Add some blueberries into the pancake. Cook until golden, then turn and cook the other side. Repeat with remaining batter.
To make heart shaped pancakes
- Spoon the batter into a piping bag or squeeze bottle. Heat the oil in the pan, then squeeze the batter out to draw a heart shape. Cook until golden, then turn and cook the other side. Repeat with the remaining batter.
Nutrition
The nutritional information provided is approximate and can vary depending on several factors, so is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please see a registered dietician for special diet advice.
Looking for more vegetable pancake recipes? Try my dark chocolate courgette/zucchini pancakes with maple yogurt!
Monika Dabrowski
I am a massive fan of beetroot and putting it in pancakes is a great idea:)
Namrata
I love to use Buckwheat in my cooking. But could never use them in non Indian dishes. This is a great recipe and I can see myself trying it soon.
Deanna
I love the hearts!! This is so cute! and I love how they have blueberries in them!
Michelle @ Vitamin Sunshine
These are beautiful Kate! I am a huge fan of adding veggies to everything, too. And buckwheat flour is my fav in pancakes 🙂
Luci
This is so totally delicious. I'm going to have to make these soon for my family, I know that they will like them.
Veena Azmanov
These are so cute and pink. Perfect for valentine's day!! love that these are gluten free so I can eat them.for myself. Saving this for later.
Jane
Mmmmm, I would LOVE to wake up to these on Valentine's day! So pretty and I love that plate, it's so pretty 😀
Bintu | Recipes From A Pantry
OMG, my kids would loooooooooove these. I am so going to try it.
Alyson
I found these looking on pinterest for valentines breakfast ideas for my kids (my daughter is gluten free). They loved them. We didn't have any blueberries so used raspberries instead. Yum!
Kate Veggie Desserts
Thanks, Alison. They are rather delicious! 🙂
Aunt Bee
These pancakes look so good! We like having pancakes for dinner 🙂
Vohn McGuinness
I adore blueberries. I didn't think I liked them until I tasted them straight from the bush - wow flavour explosion! x
Kate Hackworthy
I had a little blueberry bush that I tended with care. They were getting so lovely and plump and then next day I woke to found that the birds had eaten every last one of them. Sob. I need to try again as I love blueberries.
Lou, Eat Your Veg
What a pretty and delicious sounding pancake batter, loving the heart shapes. Might even convince my kids beetroot isn't all evil! Thanks so much for linking up to Family Foodies 'love' event.
Kate Veggie Desserts
Thanks Lou! I'm sure your kids would love them, even with the beetroot - mine did! Thanks for running Family Foodies.
Emily @amummytoo
They look great and I love buckwheat pancakes so I bet the additional ingredients make them particularly tasty. Thanks for linking up with #recipeoftheweek. I've pinned and tweeted this post 🙂 x
Honest Mum
These look divine and wheat generally isn't my friend but thinking buckwheat might like me more! Gorgeous stills, thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
Kate Veggie Desserts
Perhaps it's worth a try. Buckwheat pancakes are delicious and a bit gentler on the tummy.
Jacqueline Meldrum
Ohhhhhh! These are rather exciting!
Kate Veggie Desserts
Thanks, Jac. So pink!
MummyTries
Oh how cute! Bet they're really yummy too 🙂 #reciepoftheweek
Kate Veggie Desserts
Thanks. They were delicious. Can't wait to make them again for Valentine's Day for my kids.
Javelin Warrior
I love the use of buckwheat and beets for health and color and then the delicious flavor of blueberries within - very tasty and such a fun way to celebrate without food dye!
Kate Veggie Desserts
Thanks. Vegetables are such a great alternative to food dye. I never use it - I just stick in an appropriately-coloured vegetable! 🙂