Buttermilk Pancakes with Strawberry Sauce
Start your mornings off right with these fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth pancakes with a super easy homemade strawberry sauce!
During the weekend, I took a tiny break from cooking and blogging, which was very much needed.
See, I first started food blogging to keep a record of all my recipes and to share my love for food but over time, it began to feel like work. It started to feel like a second job, and I’ve constantly been stressed planning a menu, chasing the sun for natural lighting, thinking of new ways to use food props and checking google analytics to see if my viewership went up or down. It felt like too much for me to handle, and this blog was all about having fun and doing something that I love.
So over the weekend, I took a step back and relaxed with Jason. It’s been a while since we went out on a decent date since we have no time during the work week and weekends are dedicated to cooking and food blogging. We went to go watch The Dark Knight Rises, which was amazing by the way, napped for several hours in the middle of the day, and watched more Christopher Nolan movies like Inception. It was a wonderful break, and I’m happy to let this blog go back to what it started as, having fun.
That being said, let’s talk about these awesome pancakes. I made this several Sundays ago and it was one of the best breakfasts I’ve had in a while. The pancakes turned out to be incredibly light and fluffy, and the strawberry sauce just sent me to heaven. If only I had the time to make this during the week, waking up at 5:00AM would never be a problem!
So here’s how you make this:
We’ll start with the strawberry sauce by combining the strawberries, sugar and vanilla in a saucepan.
We’ll bring it to a boil and then let it simmer until it gets all thick and syrupy, about 6-10 minutes.
Then we’ll make the pancake batter, starting with the dry ingredients.
Next comes the wet ingredients – buttermilk, butter, sour cream and eggs.
We’ll then pour the wet to dry, using a rubber spatula to combine. Be sure not to overwork the batter.
Now we’ll scoop about 1/3 cup batter onto a hot, greased griddle. Let the pancakes bubble a bit before you flip them over.
Be sure to keep the cooked pancakes in a low 200 degree F oven while you make the rest. Cold pancakes are not fun to eat.
Then stack them up and serve with maple syrup…
or you could alternatively use the strawberry sauce we made earlier. I tried it both ways and the strawberry sauce is much better!
Buttermilk Pancakes with Strawberry Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 2 large eggs
For the strawberry sauce
- 1 pound strawberries, diced
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees F and a nonstick griddle to 350 degrees F.
- To make the strawberry sauce, combine strawberries, sugar and vanilla in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until sauce has thickened, about 6-10 minutes. Keep warm; set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a large glass measuring cup or another bowl, whisk together buttermilk, butter, sour cream and eggs. Pour mixture over dry ingredients and stir using a rubber spatula just until moist.
- Lightly coat a griddle or nonstick skillet with nonstick spray. Scoop 1/3 cup batter for each pancake and cook until bubbles appear on top and the underside is nicely browned, about 2 minutes. Flip and cook pancakes on the other side, about 1-2 minutes longer; keep warm in oven.
- Serve immediately with strawberry sauce.
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Hands down the most scrumptious pancakes!!! Made them last weekend for the first time and my whole family requested them again this morning! 🙂
Love it!
I made these pancakes last weekend. I’ve made pancakes from scratch and also from the Bisquick mix at other times, and I found your recipe just didn’t work. Normally a recipe would call for approx 2 cups of dry and 1 cup of milk plus eggs, etc. 2 cups of buttermilk as you’ve recommended made my batter way too wet. I ended up adding almost a cup of Bisquick mix just to get a drier batter. Making it your way made it more like batter for crepes. Strawberry sauce was enjoyed but seemed a little ho-hum.
Hey there! Husband and I made these for dinner tonight when we didn’t really feel like cooking too much. The strawberry sauce was terrific…..especially with pancakes and vanilla icecream 😉 However, we had some trouble with the pancakes…..stirred the batter til just moist as stated in the recipe, but couldn’t get rid of the flour lumps all through the cooked pancakes. I ended up needing to break out electric mixer just to break down all the bits of flour that had clumped together…..any ideas on what we might have done wrong? After I got rid of the lumps they were delish 🙂
You can whisk a bit more thoroughly as needed. An electric mixer is not needed.
Hi!
My name is Carla I am from Mexico, I love pancakes and these ones look amazing. The bad thing is that in Mexico they don’t sell Buttermilk, do you know how to make it?? Or a recipe for that???
Thank you a lot!
Regards
Carla, you can actually make buttermilk from plain milk and lemon juice! You can read more about it here. Hope that helps!
In a measuring cup or bow add one cup of milk one tablespoon of vinegar and let stand for 5-10 minutes.
Can the pancake batter be left in the fridge for later use?
Unfortunately, without having tried this myself, I cannot answer with certainty. As always, please use your best judgment.
Hi,
What is the alternate if i don’t want to use Eggs?
Here is a great forum worth checking out on possible egg substitutes for pancakes. Hope that helps!
Hi,
Could I use Frozen strawberries for the sauce? I guess it could get very runny and mashy….
Magda, it would be best to use fresh strawberries.
Have made these twice really fluffy and soft amazing !
Thank you
I never made american pancakes (in Holland you just make the large normal and thin pancakes and you normally don’t make them for breakfast)! I used this recipe to make the original ones (with maple sirup and butter on top). They were amazing! Next time I’ll make the strawberry sauce in stead of using maple sirup 😉 Thanks!