Why bother with batch after batch of pancakes when you can bake one beautiful one in the oven and serve it all at once in this Dutch baby dish?
A perfectly cozy dish for a Valentine’s Sunday brunch, the saltiness and crunch of the bacon offsets the sweetness of the apple and maple syrup. Every satisfying bite will make you love the weekend even more.
Ingredients
- 4 ounces bacon about 4 slices
- ¼ cup (28 grams) blanched almond flour
- 3 tablespoons (27 grams) arrowroot
- 1 tablespoon (6 grams) collagen peptides (or more arrowroot)
- 3 large eggs
- ½ cup milk of choice
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup plus more for serving
- 1 large apple cored, chopped
- ¼ teaspoon plus pinch fine sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425ºF. Place bacon in an unheated 10-inch cast iron skillet. Place over medium-low heat and cook until bacon is crisp and fat has rendered, 7 to 10 minutes. Transfer bacon to a cutting board; chop. Pour off all but 1 tablespoon bacon fat (reserve fat).
- While bacon is cooking, combine almond flour, arrowroot, collagen, eggs, milk and 1 tablespoon maple syrup to a blender; blend until smooth. Add 1 tablespoon reserved bacon fat to blender; blend again.
- After removing bacon from skillet, add apple. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt, drizzle with remaining 1 tablespoon maple syrup and cook, stirring occasionally, until apple begins to soften, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Pour batter over apples in skillet. Sprinkle with chopped bacon. Transfer skillet to oven and cook until pancake is puffed and golden, 15 to 20 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes before cutting and serving. (Pancake will deflate as it cools; that’s ok.) Pass additional maple syrup on the side.
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Beth Lipton
Beth Lipton is a Brooklyn-based recipe developer and food/wellness writer. Her work has appeared in Clean Eating, Paleo magazine, FoodNetwork.com, Well+Good, and more. She is the former food director at Health magazine and serves as the resident chef at Middleberg Nutrition. Beth is currently working on a cookbook with healthy, animal protein forward recipes.
