Easter Breakfast or Brunch

The Easter holiday is upon us. 

 

Will you be spending the day with family?  Are you hosting?  Are you house-hopping (pun intended!)?  Do you need to make a couple/few dishes to pass? 

 

I am going to share one of our favorite recipes, in two versions, to help get your Easter morning started on the right (rabbit's) foot!!

 

Apple Oven-Baked Pancake

 

Version One

2 T butter

1 egg

3/4 c pancake mix

1/2 c milk

1/4 t vanilla

1 small apple, sliced very thin

1 1/2 t cinnamon-sugar

 

Heat oven to 400 degrees.  While oven is heating, melt butter in 9-inch glass pie plate in oven.

 

Beat egg in small bowl.  Add in pancake mix, milk and vanilla. 

 

Remove pie plate from oven, swirling melted butter around and up sides.  Pour batter over melted butter.

 

Arrange apple slices over batter, scallop-style.  Sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar.

 

Bake 15-20 minutes.  Allow to cool 1-2 minutes before slicing in wedges.

 

Serve with warmed syrup.

 

Version Two

2 T butter

1 egg

3/4 c pancake mix

3/4 c milk

1/4 t vanilla

1/2 - 1 T cinnamon, depending on taste

1/4 c chia seeds

1/4 c flaxseeds, finely ground

1 small apple, sliced very thin

1 1/2 t cinnamon-sugar

 

Heat oven to 400 degrees.  While oven is heating, melt butter in 9-inch glass pie plate in oven.

 

Beat egg in small bowl.  Add in pancake mix, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, chia seeds and ground flax. 

 

Remove pie plate from oven, swirling melted butter around and up sides.  Pour batter over melted butter.

 

Arrange apple slices over batter, scallop-style.  Sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar.

 

Bake 15-20 minutes.  Allow to cool 1-2 minutes before slicing in wedges.

 

Serve with warmed syrup. 

 

Version Two will be much more dense than Version One.  You can add more milk, to either. 

 

You can use cinnamon in Version One or eliminate in Version Two.

 

Feel free to only use chia or only use ground flax. 

 

Make this recipe your own, as I have done! 

 

And don't forget to add a protein: eggs, sausage, bacon. 

 

We will be spending this holiday just the two of us and have decided to make brunch foods (again).  I like to do brunch because there are so many options that you can munch on throughout the day, usually without getting too full.

 

We will have fresh fruits & veggies, which we enjoy most everyday, plus we are going to try some new recipes, OF COURSE:

 

Oven Omelette with Sweet Potato Crust from The Spunky Coconut

and

Southwest Quinoa Cakes (which I will tweak a little) from Eating Well.

 

Chris will be looking for some kind of healthy sweet treat, too.

 

Wishing you a Happy & Healthy Easter weekend!!