Healthy Waffle Recipe??

michellewmarin

Hey Guys!

I've had MFP for a while now but I never really joined the "community".

Does anyone have any healthy waffle recipes? Most of the waffle recipes that I find have oil and I try my best not to put any oil in my food.

Anyone? Anything is appreciated! Thank you c:

-Michelle

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Light-as-a-feather whole wheat and wild rice waffles

By Margaret S. Fox from her cookbook 'Morning Food' from her Mendocino Café Beaujolais where I'd love to visit sometime if I make it to that corner of the world. With all due respect paraphrased here.

She puts in
2 cups of whole wheat flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder and the obligatory 3/4 tsp of baking soda because the liquid is 1 cup yoghurt. Sour - can be mixed with alkaline leavening.
Pinch salt, 2 TBsp honey.
4 eggs, separated, and in addition to the yoghurt, 1 1/3 cups milk.
She puts in 1/4 cup of shortening, you could try some healthy oil, or leave it out.
And finally, 1 1/2 cups cooked wild rice.

Her method is the usual. Except for the wild rice, dry ingredients together, wet ingredients together, then mix both. I personally don't believe the order matters much, except of course: if you want to blend baking soda and yoghurt to make a leavener, you have to stir it together pretty quickly and not disturb much, and bake ASAP, or all the leavning action will blow out the window.

But unless you have 6 waffle irons, there is no way you can use up a whole batch of waffle batter all at once, so the advice 'use ASAP' doesn't help, and I personally prefer using only baking powder, and actually a bit less.

Because 4 beaten egg whites also have some leavening action. Because that's what you are supposed to do with the egg whites, beat them and fold them In last.

Hope you have left the wild rice out, because you fill some batter in the waffle iron, then sprinkle about 3 TBsp of wild rice on top and bake it like that.

Depending on your take of 'healthy', you can have this with fruit or salad. You can throw out the egg yolks, in which case you better replace them with oil of the same weight.

For my own waffle grid, the wild rice grains were too long, so I had to cut them in half, and there was no way I could use up the whole one-and-a-half cups.

You can also use chopped nuts instead of the wild rice.

monisiaczeq

you can replace half of the flour with oats. i put them in a food processor and make them into "flour"

annekka

I haven't tried it, but here's a vegan waffle recipe from about.com http://vegetarian.about.com/od/breakfastrecipe1/r/veganwaffles.htm

The recipe has no oil and uses applesauce instead. You could replace the soymilk with some almond milk if you're not nut allergic. You could also try different flours such as sorghum, spelt, millet etc.

lillivewire87

I use Bob's Red Mill Whole Grain Waffle/Pancake mix and then I substitute half the oil for applesauce and all the milk for almond milk. I love eggs so I don't substitute anything for those. Usually I will use coconut oil for the other tablespoon.