Vegan pineapple upside down pancake recipe
Vegan Pineapple Upside Down Pancake Recipe features fluffy pancakes with caramelized pineapple slices, made with pineapple juice for a naturally sweet, tropical treat!
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
FOR CARAMELIZED PINEAPPLE
- 6 pineapple slices
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
FOR MAKING PANCAKES
- 1 cup - All purpose flour (or whole wheat flour)
- 3/4 cup milk of your choice (we used oats milk)
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pineapple essence (or vanilla essence)
- 1 tbsp plus extra coconut oil
- 6 glazed cherries optional
Instructions
CARAMELIZING OF PINEAPPLES
- Take a non stick pan or tawa and apply coconut oil on it and also sprinkle some brown sugar.
- Arrange pineapple slices, as much your pan can accomodate.
- Cook the pineapples for 3-4 minutes.
- Sprinkle some brown sugar on top of pineapple slices.
- Flip them.
- Cook from other side as well until pineapples get caramelized from both sides. Keep aside.
MAKING OF BATTER
- Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, salt, pineapple essence and coconut oil in a bowl.
- Gradually add milk and keep mixing.
- Get a thick yet flowing consistency of batter.
MAKING OF PANCAKES
- Apply some coconut oil on non stick pan or tawa.
- Spread a bit of batter.
- Let it firm up for a minute.
- Then place a caramelized slice of pineapple.
- Put a piece of glazed cherry in the middle hole of slice. (This step is optional).
- Let the batter turn full firm.
- Sprinkle bit of coconut oil over the top.
- Flip the pancake.
- Cook from both the sides until brown.
- Enjoy hot after drizzling maple or dates syrup.
Notes
- If you don't have pineapple essence, you can use vanilla essence.
- For intense pineapple flavour, you can reduce the quantity of milk and balance that portion with pineapple juice.
- Glazed cherries in the middle of totally optional, but they will give a beautiful look to your pancakes.
- For vegetarians, coconut oil and oats milk can be replaced with butter and regular milk respectively.