Making pancakes is so ancient kitchen task that it is probably vowed into our DNA. We can make keto pancakes as easily as the already familiar ones.

Who would have thought that pancakes and pizzas are much in common? Apart from both being round and made from flour they share common historical roots.

Nowadays, there are clear distinction between the two of course. One is a dessert generally served as breakfast while the other is appetizer served when we are in no mood for doing anything.

Long, long time ago when humanity didn’t have Amazon to home order and lazy carriers who throw our precious stuff around, we still had to eat somehow. Luckily, we pretty early figured out that cooking makes our food better.

To be completely honest, it was our brain realized that cooked food provides energy faster and probably safer than in its raw form. Thus, our senses been altered to favor such flavors that come from cooking, essentially driving behavioral changes. It took a couple of thousand years for us to actually realize why we do what we do but it’s better late than never.

So, cooking without try-ply pans and non-stick coating wasn’t a fairy tale but our ancestors did what they needed to do to survive. They used flat rocks thrown into the fire as a pan and made their cakes there from the cereals they had at hand.

When someone figured out that a yeast infected flour can be made into a fluffy edible thing, everything changed forever. Probably the wind of change didn’t sweep through the human population as fast as an Instagram post from JLo but eventually everyone figured it out.

It didn’t need a big brain for that, as wet flour left out at room temperature for a couple of days and the lactobacilli started doing its thing with it, creating sour dough or pickle in case of vegetables.

Later when times had changed and iron ruled the world, people swapped their baking stones to baking pans and from these times we could speak about actual pancakes.

Since the first cakes made in a pan there weren’t huge developmental strides toward perfecting the dish. Except maybe the honey used as a natural sweetener was swapped to sugar when the luxuriously priced sugar was available for the commons as well.

Now that sugar is lurking in every corner of our life trying to devour us into mindless nibbling or savage binging, we try to resist and lock it out of our life.

Swapping back to natural ingredients when preparing our dishes is the best way we can ensure full control over our diet and well-being. It’s a hard and treacherous journey with little rewards at the beginning but as we advance towards our goals it get lighter and more enjoyable than it was ever before.

The door to real flavors and textures creaks open and widens until we can step right through into a life full of healthy and fulfilling dishes, designs to nourish and provide enjoyments too.

Plunging from sugar and starch infested life into a new low carb one is like jumping into the ocean. First, it’s cold but when we get used to the water it’s hard to get out let alone saying bye to the seaside without longing back again and again.

Ingredients:

2½ cup / 300g Almond flour
½ cup / 100ml coconut milk or milk of preference
½ cup / 100ml soda water
4 Eggs
Oil for frying

How to make keto pancake:

Measure and put almond flour into a medium size mixing bowl.
Break eggs and put them into the bowl too.
Measure out soda water and coconut milk.
Pour coconut milk into the mixing bowl whilst stirring the batter.
Mix well until the batter is smooth.
Heat frying pan on medium heat.
Brush frying pan with oil before scooping the batter into it.
Scoop the batter in it. We can make three pancakes together in the frying pan.
Fry one side of the pancake on medium heat about 2 and a half to 3 minutes depending on the cooktop flip it over and fry the other side until golden brown.
Repeat it until all of the healthy pancake batter is used up.
Serve it with our favourite homemade jam or just whip up something from the fridge quickly.

Enjoy!

Pancakes come in many flavors and forms but all are delicious:

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