Rice Flour Pancakes with a Plum Compote

Sharing big news is tricky. You never know how your friends and family will react and it’s hard to decide how to tell them. Well, I didn’t have such a problem. I’ve discovered that I’m pregnant when I was traveling in New Zealand and Tomasz was in Sydney at the time. I was so excited that I sent him a video on Instagram followed by a message that it’s a serious matter and he has to see it and answer ASAP. He had no clue what’s going on. We still have the video, well, I think we may even keep it. With family it was even simpler. They kept asking us about children (parents do it’ don’t they) and one day we just told them if you want it so much just come over on the beginning of December as there will be one petit Greber waiting for you. And now I’m sharing it with you.

I think that there will be small changes on a blog as I feel like eating again! Yay! For the last few months I wasn’t cooking too much. The main reason was that I had no appetite at all. I was ready for this kind of feelings during the first trimester. I remember being super happy when the forth month has started. Picture me with a fork and knife, sitting next to my table and waiting for an appetite to arrive. Nothing. Then the fifth month came and I got more and more excited with each day, for the baby and for my taste buds to wake up. Baby was very happy, dancing inside me, and my taste buds were still sleeping. I went through few phases – not feeling hungry at all, eating veggies without excitement, not feeling like home made sweets at all, eating everything without excitement, then feeling that everything is sour (not the coolest experience for a foodie). But yesterday in the afternoon something has changed… I think I’m hungry for something delicious… am I really? Is it happening? Is my appetite for goodies back? Will I feel like spending hours in my kitchen again? So many questions! For this moment I feel like pancakes with a plum compote, chocolate dessert with something floating inside, lets say chocolate with peanut butter and maybe cinnamon rolls. Happy, happy days!

For a start I made a big breakfast influenced by this pictures. Pancakes are pretty healthy as I made them out of a rice flour. They go perfectly with a homemade plum compote. I hope you’ll enjoy it as I did.

You will need for compote:

• 350g plums,drilled
• 100g palm sugar
• 100 ml water
• pinch of cinnamon
• 1 tsp corn starch

For pancakes:

• 1 cup rice flour
• 1 tbsp palm sugar
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• pinch of salt
• pinch of cinnamon
• 1 egg
• 1 cup hazelnut milk
• 1 tbsp coconut flakes
• 1 tbsp coconut oil

Start with a compote. Place drilled plums, sugar, water and cinnamon in a pot and cook over a medium heat for few minutes, so the flums start to soften. Then add a corn stretch and mix with a wooden spoon. You will see that the compote will thicken a bit. Put it on side and start preparations for pancakes.

In bowl place all the ingredients for pancakes, mix it well. Heat a frying pan with a bit of oil and pour one big spoon of the dough. It depends if you like small or big pancakes. Fry it on each side until golden brown. You should get about 8 medium pancakes.

Serve it with plums in compote and few mint leafs.

Enjoy, Marta