Low Sodium Pancakes
- thelosogal
- Aug 8, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Feb 12, 2024
If finally happened, I rant out of my favorite pancake mix. So off to the kitchen we go to make our own.
This one has about 70 mg of sodium for the whole batter due to the egg. This makes roughly 6 pancakes so it's about 12mg per pancake.
Ingredients
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon Hain's no-sodium baking powder
3 tablespoons sugar
1 egg
1/2-3/4 cup water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla
Directions
Preheat a skillet on medium heat.
In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and sugar. Set aside.
In another small bowl, whisk together the egg, water, vegetable oil and vanilla.
Mix the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. There will still be lumps.
Once the skillet is hot, pour batter 1/4 cup at a time. Cook until you start seeing bubbles pop on the surface and the edges are starting to dry. Flip and cook another minute or two until the other side is golden brown.
Hain's no sodium baking powder has been discontinued. There was a thread on Reddit and someone contacted the manufacturer to veryify. The only other no sodium baking powder, by Ener-G, has also been discontinued. Troubling, but true. Right now the lowest sodium baking powder product on the market is Rumford Reduced Sodium - at 35 mgs. per 1/8 tsp. Since your recipe calls for 1 Tbsp = 3 tsp = 24x1/8 = 840 mgs of sodium using the lowest commercially available baking powder. I am considering DIYing baking powder using potassium bicarbonate (as opposed to sodium bicarbonate) and cream of tartar, but that's a lot of potassium. If anyone has any other suggestions I'd love to hear about them.
The pancakes came out delicious. Batter was thick so mine made for a thicker pancakes not a thinner pancakes. I could have thinned he batter with a little more water but I like the thicker pancakes. Will make this recipe again.