Have you gotten any Mardi Gras beads today?? I haven’t but oh well Lol
So to celebrate Fat Tuesday I decided to have pancakes since I grew up always going to Fat Tuesday pancake suppers at my parent’s respective churches when I was a youngster. However, instead of your regular pancakes I made sweet potato pancakes with a spinach pesto!!
Can we say DELISH!? I think I should get some beads for this concoction 🙂
Sweet Potato Latkas
Lightly adapted from Spark People
2 lbs sweet potatoes, peeled and shredded
1/2 cup green or white onions, finely minced
1 Tbsp dry parsley
1 tsp dry stage
2 Tbsp flax meal
2 Tbsp boiling water
1/2 lemon
1/4 cup brown rice flour
Celtic sea salt (course) to taste
Black Pepper to taste
* Pour boiling water over flaxmeal in a bowl and let turn to gelatinous mass.
* Mix sweet potatoes and onions with lemon juice
* Add Seasonings, flour and flax – mix together
* Heat oil (coconut oil) – drop spoonfuls on hot pan, use fork to spread out into a thin pancake
* Cook until corners are browned and crisp, flip – cook till golden
Spinach Pesto
2-3 cups baby spinach
1-2 Tbsp Olive Oil
1 large garlic clove
Lemon Juice – to taste
2 tsp sesame seeds
1/4 cup raw cashews
1 Tbsp nutritional yeast
Salt to taste
* Put all ingredients into a food processor, and process until fully blended. May add some spinach if taste is too strong. This recipe is really to each persons own taste, so you can add a bit more of any ingredient until you find the right combination 🙂
BEADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We’ve eaten lots of Shrove Tuesday pancakes over the years, haven’t we? I feel bogged down just remembering them. Your version looks scrumptious, and a big improvement over the traditional version.
Yes we have!! This version is way healthier and many more health benefits!! 🙂 You could even add some fresh basil in the pesto (or the pancakes) I didn’t have any on hand but you could always run out to your garden and get some, LUCKY!!!
Oh my gosh that looks awesome and I eat everything in that recipe. My husband and I have cut out sugar and gluten, so most recipes have stuff we can’t eat in them. Those look amazing.