Pancakes made healthier with Nuts and Berries

29 Jan 2009 · 1 min

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In this instructional video, Dr. Cathy demonstrates how to enhance ordinary pancake mix with a variety of nutrient‑dense ingredients. She recommends sourcing organic quinoa, wheat berries, sliced almonds, flaxseed, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, toasted wheat germ, blueberries, and applesauce from Whole Foods, natural food stores, or Harry's (the store featured on Good Eats). She explains two preparation options for quinoa and wheat berries—blending them into a powder or soaking them overnight—before mixing everything into the pancake batter. The segment emphasizes that these additions are staple, health‑focused items that can be easily incorporated to make pancakes more wholesome and flavorful.

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Hi, I'm Dr. Cathy, and today I'd like to show you some healthy additions you can add to your regular pancake mix. We're going to use some of the items that I consider to be staples, and you can pick these up at Whole Foods, a nature food store, or we go to Harry's, which if you've ever seen the program Good Eats, it's the same store that Alton Brown shops at. We're going to start off with a little bit of organic quinoa. Some organic wheat berries. Some sliced almonds, a little bit of flaxseed, pumpkin seeds, and sunflower seeds. And to all this, we'll add some toasted wheat germ. Now I like to put the quinoa and the wheat berries into the blender, chop them up into powder first. You can do that, or you can put them in the bowl right before you go to bed at night with a little bit of water, Soak them up and let them soften up so that in the morning they're ready to go. Toss all this into your bowl with your pancake mix. Feel free to add some berries. Today we're going to be adding blueberries and a little bit of applesauce if you have some, and make your pancakes.