sourdough pancake recipe

Sourdough Pancakes

Almost every Sunday, I make sourdough pancakes for my husband and daughter. The sourdough pancake recipe I use will melt in your mouth and be your new favorite breakfast.

I talked about sourdough starter in my homemade sourdough bread post. It’s a useful ingredient to have around. Read more on that post about how to start it.

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Sourdough Pancake Recipe

This one is one of those treat yourself breakfasts. It’s not like the floury pancakes you make out of the box. It’s like melts as you eat it. Maybe it’s not the healthiest thing on my blog, but it sure it healthier than the average pancake. I talked about how fermenting helps us digest grains better on my homemade sourdough bread post as well. Basically, the starter is a fermenting mixture of bread and water and allows nutrients to be more easily absorbed by the body and makes the flour more digestible. 

sourdough pancake recipe

 

I honestly don’t know where this recipe came from. I found it in my old recipe book that I tried to start once. It has maybe 10 recipes total but now Google bookmarks and Pinterest are easier. Either way, it used to have sugar and olive oil as the sweet and fat source. My husband has made it that way many times and it was good, but I think this is better with melted butter and maple syrup. I don’t even need much maple syrup to eat them.

My starter is white flour but the night before pancakes, I make a separate fermenting bowl of flour and water where it ends up being 1 cup of whole wheat and water for half my starter. You can use any variety or mixture amount for white or wheat. The pancakes are less melty with wheat but still melty! Is melty even a word?

sourdough starter
This is sourdough starter and it works great!


 

I like to use cast iron to cook these. The pancakes do not stick that way. Otherwise I would use coconut oil to cook. 

sourdough pancake recipe

Check out this list of uses for sourdough starter, oh the possibilities! Many Uses Of Sourdough


Fresh Flavors: Make this sourdough pancake recipe to help your body digest delicious pancakes.

 


sourdough pancake recipe

Sourdough Pancake Recipe

This sourdough pancake recipe is a melt in your mouth new breakfast treat.
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups sourdough starter made with a combination of white and wheat
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup
  • 4 tbsp melted butter
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tbsp warm water

Instructions
 

  • Add all ingredients EXCEPT baking soda and water together in a bowl. Add baking soda to 1 tbsp warm water. Preheat the stove with pans to medium heat. Melt coconut oil or butter or your choice of non-stick. I like to use cast iron, it doesn't stick. Add the baking soda/water to the batter and mix. Pour desired size of pancake onto the pan or griddle.

Let's get healthy together!

19 Comments

  • I used to have my own sourdough starter and would make sourdough pancakes to use them up!

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  • I love sourdough bread; I’ve never thought to use it in pancakes though. These sound delicious!! Adding it to my summer to-do list!

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  • Jill-Joy

    August 1, 2017

    I’d have to try this! looks delicious.

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  • kasey

    July 31, 2017

    These look so great! I’m gonna have to try them for sure.

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    • Mindy Voet

      July 31, 2017

      Thanks! They are the best kind of pancake.

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  • Bailey

    July 11, 2017

    I had no idea such a thing existed! This looks like an amazing combination of all good things.

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  • Sarah

    July 11, 2017

    I have never thought of making sourdough pancakes, these look delicious!

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  • I LOVE sourdough – will be saving this!

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  • Liz

    July 10, 2017

    I love making pancakes but I’ve never tried sourdough pancakes! These sound yummy!

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    • Mindy Voet

      July 10, 2017

      You’ve got to try! It’s a whole new level.

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  • michele

    July 10, 2017

    Yum! I make sourdough from a starter I have been feeding for almost 25 years and have never tried pancakes…thanks!

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    • Mindy Voet

      July 12, 2017

      Wow 25 years?! That must be the best tasting.

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  • Hannah

    July 10, 2017

    Same here – I love sourdough bread and never seen a recipe for sourdough pancakes.

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  • Joleene

    July 10, 2017

    My husband is the pancake maker in our house. Maybe if I just slip this under her nose while he’s making them….

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  • Kelsey

    July 6, 2017

    Interesting recipe, I’ve only ever had just sourdough bread. I’ll have to try this sometime!

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    • Mindy Voet

      July 8, 2017

      Let me know if you try them. They are really good!

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