Buckwheat Pancakes With Orange Honey

Buckwheat Pancakes With Orange Honey For the fluffiest pancakes, mix your flours.
Jess Kapadia•

The combination of white and buckwheat flours, while not exactly gluten-free, makes for some pretty famous combinations. Savory crepes, for instance, are made with half buckwheat and half all-purpose flour. Soba noodles are 80% buckwheat flour and 20% all-purpose. Even the blini for your potential caviar is a blend: 2 parts buckwheat flour to 1 part all-purpose. So naturally, a variation on this formula must translate into delicious breakfast or brunch pancakes.

We stuck with the crepe ratio of half-n-half to keep things on the fluffy side. To further our fluff efforts (flufferts?), don't overbeat your batter or you'll get tough, chewy pancakes nobody will want to put homemade orange-infused honey all over. And that would be a tragedy.

Buckwheat Pancakes With Orange Honey
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4
Buckwheat Pancakes With Orange Honey
Ingredients
  • 1 cup honey
  • juice of one orange
  • zest of one orange
  • 3/4 cup buckwheat flour
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 2 large eggs
Directions
  1. In a medium bowl, combine honey, orange juice and zest and set aside.
  2. Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl and set aside.
  3. Whisk wet ingredients together in another large bowl.
  4. Stir the wet into the dry until just combined and smooth — don't overmix or your pancakes will be tough and dry.
  5. Preheat a large non-stick pan on medium heat, then follow our easy instructions for making perfect pancakes.
  6. Serve hot with butter and orange honey.
 
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