Wonderful Waffles

BY Rosane Oliveira, DVM, PhD

Now you can enjoy your favorite breakfast classic in an all plant-based form. Our recipe for Wonderful Waffles is free of dairy, eggs and oil. With 6 simple ingredients, you can whip up a batch in 20 minutes and start your day with a yummy and wholesome meal.

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups Homemade Nut Milk
1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour*
1/3 cup sucanat
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste

PREP TIME 10
COOK TIME 10
Serves 6

Directions

Preheat waffle maker.
Mix nut milk and vanilla paste/extract in a large bowl. Add flour, sucanat, corn starch and baking powder then stir until combined.
Pour batter into waffle maker and cook until golden brown on each side (according to manufacturer instructions). Remove and serve.

*You may use gluten-free flour blend in place of whole wheat pastry flour.

Rosane Oliveira, DVM, PhD

Rosane Oliveira, DVM, PhD is Founding Director of UC Davis Integrative Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences at the School of Medicine at the University of California Davis. Blending a life-long passion for food and nutrition with over 20 years of scientific experience in genetic research, Dr. Oliveira is devoted to educating people about how food and lifestyle choices can affect genetic expression–i.e. how genes are turned on and off and either cause disease or promote health. She is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has lived in the US since 2003.