Switching ingredients in standard recipes with whole food ingredients is easy. Waffles are a good breakfast food that incorporates eggs & milk ... plus you can add fresh berries. Today the kids said, 'yummmmm' after they handed me their empty plates.
Mrs. Mac's Berry Waffle Recipe:
1-3/4 cup whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 tablespoon organic unrefined sugar or honey*
3 egg yolks, beaten
4 tablespoons oil or melted butter
1-1/2 cups milk
3 egg whites, beaten until stiff
1/3 cup fresh or frozen huckleberries (or raspberries/blueberries/blackberries)
Mix the dry ingredients together with a wire whisk, set aside. Using your stand mixer, add the egg whites to the mixing bowl and beat until stiff. Beat the yolks in a small bowl, add milk and oil ... mix with a fork. Remove the egg whites from the mixing bowl ... set aside. To the same bowl add the flour and egg/milk mixture. Beat til barely blended. Carefully fold in the egg whites. To a preheated and well oiled waffle iron add 1/4 cup of batter. Top with a small amount of berries .. then cover berries with 1/4 cup of more waffle batter (this helps the waffle not to stick due to the berries). Bake according to your waffle iron directions. Mine is old and I just watch for the waffle to stop steaming.
Serve waffles warm with a little butter and real maple syrup. Your kids won't ever want you to buy Eggo's again ... this whole grain waffle will fill you up until lunch :)
*if using honey ... add it to the liquid egg/milk mix
Yesterday we stopped by a neighbor's ranch and bought some hot off the nest organic chicken eggs. A cozy feeling came over me holding the warm eggs on the way home ... now that's fresh :)
