SCD Pumpkin Spice Pancakes

Now that Fall is creeping up on us I start to long for pumpkin flavored favorites such as pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pie and pumpkin lattes. But for the boys I make a pumpkin spiced pancake. Which can be a little tricky since they are now Specific Carbohydrate Diet compliant. So I took a fairly standard SCD almond flour pancake recipe and tweaked it to make it pumpkin spice.

Ingredients:
1/4 Cup roasted pumpkin or butternut squash, pureed with cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and allspice. (roasting recipe below)
3 eggs
1 Cup Almond Flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 Tbs honey
1 – 2 tsp vanilla (pure)

Heat frying pans (preferably stainless steel), and melt coconut oil in bottom to coat. Do not let the pan get too hot as coconut oil will start to smoke and you will burn the pancakes before they cook.
Mix all ingredients together with a whisk.
Drop small pancakes size portions of batter into hot pans and watch for bubbles. When pancake bubbles, flip. Serve with a drizzle of honey. Yummy.

How to Roast a Butternut Squash or Pumpkin

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.
Wash outside of squash.
Cut in half.
Clean out center of squash, removing all the seeds and fibers. If you are using a pumpkin remember to save the seeds and roast them (oil and salt seeds in single layer on baking sheet) in a 325 degree oven for about 25 minutes, stirring every 10 mins or so. Eat the whole seed – yummy.
Place squash in a baking dish ( I like the pamper chef stoneware because they don’t leech chemicals such as lead and aluminum) and drizzle with a little oil (I use olive).
Roast for about 40 minutes depending on size of squash. You want a fork to easily pierce the flesh of the squash.
Remove flesh from peel and using a blender, hand blender or food processor, mix until smooth. You can add your favorite pumpkin spices such as cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and allspice to make a delicious mashed “pumpkin pudding”. You can serve this as a side dish to a nice pork loin or in place of mashed sweet potatoes or use it in the recipe above to make pumpkin spice pancakes.