Pancakes just don’t get easier than this. These pancakes are a wonderful morning staple for the home during pumpkin season. Eat these with a cup of hot coffee with pumpkin cream and thank me later.
❤️ Why You’ll Love Sourdough Discard Pumpkin Pancakes
These use TWO cups of sourdough discard. Yes, two. So if you have a big jar of sourdough discard in the back of your fridge that you want to get rid of but are finding that most discard recipes only call for 1/2 a cup and you want more, then this is the recipe for you. There is no addition of flour to this recipe, just 6 simple ingredients to start your morning on a cozy foot.
🍲 Ingredients
Sourdough Discard – This is just inactive sourdough starter that hasn’t been fed. It is equal parts flour and water that has already risen and fallen and now can be added to a multitude of recipes.
Flour – All-purpose flour which I have learned is not only a kitchen staple, but a kitchen necessity.
Pumpkin Puree – Organic Pumpkin Puree is the way to go for this one. This recipe uses half of a can, but you can easily use the whole can if you like extra pumpkin flavor.
👩🍳 How to Make Sourdough Discard Pumpkin Pancakes
Mix together all your ingredients. Let the batter rest 5-10 minutes. Melt 1 TBS of butter in a cast iron pan over medium high heat. Pour 1/4 cup of batter into the pan & when it starts to bubble, flip it and cook it for an additional 2-3 minutes. Eat warm with butter ✨
🪄 Tips and Tricks
- After you add your baking soda, the batter with be very airy and fluffy, let it rest for 10 minutes after mixing so that your first batch of pancakes won’t be full of holes.
- These are best cooked in a cast iron pan.
🗒 Variations
Adding chocolate chips is an easy way to make these pumpkin pancakes a special treat.
- Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Pancakes
🗒 Substitutions
Because there are minimal ingredients to this recipe, there is not much that can be substituted. But you can switch the cinnamon for pumpkin pie spice, or apple pie spice. You can also switch out the brown sugar for granulated sugar or honey.
- cinnamon – pumpkin or apple pie spice
- brown sugar – granulated sugar or honey
🗒 Best Served With
- Maple syrup for breakfast
👝 How to Store Leftovers
Store whatever pancakes you have leftover in a Ziplock bag in the freezer for up to 6 months. When you’re ready to eat them just throw them in a toaster or in a 350 degree oven until they are fully thawed and warmed through.
🤔 Common Questions
If you have anything more than one cup of starter, just use what you have. The pancakes would be a bit fluffier and there wouldn’t be as many, but you could absolutely make it work.
Sourdough Discard Pumpkin Pancakes
Equipment
- cast iron pan
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 2 cups sourdough discard
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 TBS brown sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 4 TBS butter
Instructions
- Preheat a large cast iron pan over medium high heat.
- In a large bowl, mix together all of the ingredients
- Initially, the batter will be fluffy because of the baking soda. Let the batter rest and settle for 15 minutes.
- Melt 1 TBS of butter in the cast iron pan. Scoop 1/4 cup of batter into the pan and leave it alone. When the top of the batter starts to bubble, about 5 minutes, flip it over and cook on the other side for an additional 2-3 minutes.
- Transfer to a plate and melt another TBS of butter into the pan repeating these steps until all of the batter is gone.
- Serve with cinnamon butter and a drizzle of maple syrup.
Nutrition
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I don’t see flour in this recipe?
Hi! There’s no flour in the recipe, the baking soda mixes with the sourdough discard and makes the fluffy pancake texture 🙂
Is the 4 tbs butter melted or softened?
Melted 🙂 it’s butter for the pan, melt 1 TBS at a time before adding the batter!
These have been made twice in our household, once with cinnamon and once with pumpkin pie spice. My 2.5 year old preferred the cinnamon but they were both delicious
Soo tasty!! My two year old had three servings. I switched the butter for coconut oil 1:1 and added a scoop of vanilla protein powder and it was great. Easy to mix up and made more than I was expecting which is always a plus!
These are the best pancakes I’ve ever had and they are so easy!!!!
They really are so good! I’m glad you like them 🙂
These are very yummy! All five children them with butter and dandelion syrup 🙂
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I’d like to make these! But I only have half a cup of discard. 😂 I saw in another recipe you suggested subbing discard for flour and milk. Would that work here? Seems like it should. 🤔
Yes! It will work 🙂
I saw in a comment that the butter is used for cooking. So no butter goes into the batter when it says “mix all ingredients”?
Yes! I will fix the wording, but the butter is just for cooking 🙂
Will adding protein powder mess with the consistency or would it work?? I love all your recipes thank you for sharing!!
These were so delicious!!
I originally read the recipe as mixing in 4Tbs of butter into the mixture so I did that. Let me tell you, it was a game changer! I read the comments after and saw you weren’t supposed to, but the added melted butter made the most delicious crispy ridge around the pancakes. This was a FANTASTIC way to use up some of my discard and a perfect fall breakfast
Wonderful recipe! I had 100% hydration whole grain einkorn discard, and the texture turned out perfectly fluffy and tender. I also failed to see from the comment that the melted butter was not for adding to the batter, so I added about two tbsp. to the batter and the rest for frying. I agree that they are great with the butter mixed in! I added some nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and allspice (about 1/4-1/2 tsp. each), plus a good pour of vanilla, just because I love those flavors with pumpkin. These are amazing topped with peanut butter and pear butter.
Can’t wait to try a few more of your recipes!
I’m so happy you liked them.