By Holly Royce
Good Morning everyone!
I would like to invite you all to join me on my 30 Lemon Quest. My housemate recently returned from visiting her father with a giant basket of lemons, 30 to be exact. My mission is to use them to make delicious vegan treats to share with my housemates, neighbours and in the 1 Million Women office.
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Sunday is a pretty great day for pancakes, and I've tried making quite a few vegan ones in my time, but none even came close to how great these lemon and poppy seed pancakes tasted. I have something I like to call the 'boyfriend test', where I get my boyfriend (not vegan) to eat what I cooked and tell me how close it came to tasting like 'The Real Thing' (his words not mine). This one came pretty close with a 7/10 in the boyfriend test.
Please enjoy this recipe and PLEASE share any more vegan recipes involving lemons that you can think of.
VEGAN LEMON AND POPPY SEED PANCAKES (makes 12 pikelets, feeds 3 20-somethings happily)
Ingredients:
-- 1 cup plain flour -- Juice from 2 lemons (one for the batter and one to go on top) -- 2 Tbs Poppy seeds -- 1/4 cup coconut oil (and a touch extra for oiling the pan) -- Egg replacer (equivalent of 1 egg) -- 1 cup non-dairy milk (I used unsweetened almond milk) -- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract -- splash of organic maple syrup or stevia to taste -- 2 Tbs water
Method:
-- Stir the non-dairy milk and lemon juice together. Set aside and allow to curdle while you mix up the other ingredients. -- In a medium bowl, add all other ingredients together. -- Slowly mix in non-dairy milk and lemon juice -- Heat pan and lightly brush with coconut oil. -- Pour out batter into first pancake shape. About 1/2 a minute on each side worked for me, though the first took a little longer to heat up.
Serve with juice of lemon and organic maple syrup on top.
2 lemons down - 28 to go. Share your lemon based recipes in the comments below!
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