One of the things that excited me about the Physics Girl livestream was the breakfast pancakes that she eats every day. With my own illness, I’ve had to limit the foods I eat too (though not as much as Physics Girl), so I’ve been interested in finding foods that might work well for me and taste good. The pancakes are apparently delicious, so much so that even her husband Kyle eats them every day.

Kyle said in the livestream that “we’ll have to post a recipe later for people at home to try”, but as far as I know the recipe was never published. So this is an unofficial recipe, to make it easy for me to try making them.

Recipe source

Ingredients

Amounts were never mentioned in the stream, so I am guessing based on camera footage and my own experiments. The original recipe makes 6 pancakes, which serves two people.

• whole pistachios – 1/2 cup
• vanilla: choose one of fresh vanilla bean or vanilla extract (the original recipe uses fresh vanilla bean, but vanilla extract can be substituted at a 1:1 ratio; I will just refer to this as “vanilla” in the directions below) – 1/2 tsp
• pink lady apple – 1.5 apples
• water – just enough to get the consistency of the batter right, about 1/2 cup. You don’t want the batter to be too runny.
• ground chia seeds – 2 tbsp
• pecans (probably; it was in a different glass jar than the pistachios but were never called out in the live stream; later in the stream they mention that she eats pecans, whereas no other nuts were mentioned as far as I can tell) – 1/4 cup
• carrot – 1 small carrot
• coconut oil – 1 tbsp

Directions

Blend the following ingredients (use a good blender; there’s not a lot of liquid so a poor blender will not be able to blend the ingredients):

• 1/2 cup pistachios
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 pink lady apple (with skin on)
• 1/2 cup water

Set aside some of what was blended for later to put on the pancakes as sauce, while most of it will be used as part of the batter.

Mix the 2 tbsp ground chia seeds and 1/4 cup pecans into the batter.

Peel and grate the 1 small carrot and mix the carrot and the rest of the apple chunks (1/2 apple) into the batter.

The consistency of the batter should be like cookie dough at this point.

Turn on the stove, put a frying pan on top, and heat the 1 tbsp coconut oil. Then add the batter in as small pancakes (diameter ≈ 2 inches) and fry them. Flip over after a couple of minutes. Keep flipping and cooking until they are crispy and cooked through. Serve with the sauce.