Try a delicious black rice pancakes vegan option, with coconut milk. Plus see how to cook black rice recipe vegan style. It’s among top black rice flour recipes vegetarian style, for desserts, breakfasts, or snacks. I find it yet another moreish, black rice coconut milk, recipe. Plus, where can you buy black rice flour?
Because black rice is so healthy, I also aim to eat it regularly. For instance, try our black rice pudding recipe for breakfast or dessert. (It’s another from the Flametree Bali retreat).
So, this this is another black rice coconut milk recipe is great to add to your list of wonderful ways to use black rice.
Before I tell you the recipe, I’ll quickly tell you the answer to a common question about why black rice recipes are healthy.
I’ll also cover where to buy black rice flour, and even how to make black rice flour.
Is black rice recipes healthy? You bet!
See below for how to make black rice flour, as well as where to buy black rice flour… as used for this moreish black rice pancakes recipe. These pancakes are definitely among the black rice recipes, vegetarian options, to include in your life. See why below.
Is black rice recipes healthy?
Black rice recipes are rich in antioxidants called anthocyanins. They protect cells from damage. The rice is also linked to benefits like weight control, eye health, less inflammation, & protecting against cancer, diabetes & heart disease. It’s 9% protein, gluten free, & low in sugar, fat, & salt.
It’s another of the black rice recipes that were given to me, (Chris Lalor), in the free cooking class included in Flametree’s Bali Yoga Retreats.
As you’ll see, black rice flour is the major ingredient. As I mentioned, an advantage of any recipe with black rice, is that it’s almost 9% protein, and has much more protein than white rice.
It also has a scrummy, slightly nutty taste.
But first, let’s talk about how to make black rice flour, or where to buy black rice flour.
The easiest option is to buy it, probably at an Asian supermarket. That’s how I got the black rice flour in the picture.
Blueberry pancakes are among my top black rice flour recipes.
But first, buy flour like this, or make it.
One of my favourite vegan recipes with black rice, using the black rice flour I’ll also show how to make. Then, you can move on with making using this what I think are the best black rice flour recipes you’ll find. Works well for vegan recipes with black rice, like these pancakes, even though it’s the so-called glutinous black rice… or sticky black rice.
Where to buy black rice flour?
In the West, & even in places like Bali, black rice flour is often difficult to buy.
But, you can get black rice, & quickly grind the flour yourself. You’ll usually find the black rice at major supermarkets, or Asian shops.
For example, in Darwin NT, you’ll nearly always find black rice at the Asian Food Emporium on Bagot road (or its equivalents elsewhere). As I said, that’s where I got lucky.
How to make black rice flour?
Make black rice flour yourself, from black rice. Make it by grinding black rice to black rice flour, using either a coffee grinder, or blender attachment. With a regular coffee grinder, it takes just a few minutes to make enough black rice flour for a black rice pancakes stack.
You’ll usually find the black rice at major supermarkets, or Asian shops.
For example, in Darwin NT, you’ll nearly always find black rice at the Asian Food Emporium on Bagot road (or its equivalents elsewhere).
Black rice pancakes I first tasted on Flametree’s Bali retreat.
Delicious black rice pancakes from the Flametree retreat. It’s one scrumptious option, and we’ll show you another that’s made with blueberries too.
A pancake alternative
After I enjoyed various black rice recipes at Flametree’s retreat, and enjoyed the pancakes, I set out to make my own.
So, this recipe will show you how to make blueberry black rice pancakes, as well as the original that you see above.
I used the ingredients below.
In the red bowl, you can see the black rice flour we made by grinding black rice in the coffee grinder!
For the original retreat version, white rice flour is mixed with the black rice flour. You can get the white rice flour at Woolworths, or Asian supermarkets.
The white rice flour gives a different taste, and make the pancake a little easier to manipulate.
Black rice pancakes with blue berry recipe ingredients & variations
Blueberry pancakes with coconut milk ingredients. It works with either frozen or fresh blueberries. I have not shown the white rice flour I also used in one version.
Ingredients: Blueberry Black Rice Pancakes
The picture above has the main ingredients, which are these:
one large cup of black rice
a half cup of coconut milk
half a teaspoon of salt, or less, to taste
cinnamon to sprinkle on finished pancake
coconut yoghurt to add when served
a banana, and / or any other fresh fruit, such as strawberries, kiwi fruit, or tropical fruit.
a half cup of fresh or frozen blueberries
half cup of water
a quarter teaspoon of baking powder
white rice flower for one of the versions I discuss below.
If you want, use any other fruit of your choice to eat with it, plus coconut yoghurt.
Blueberry black rice pancake with embedded blueberries
How to cook black rice recipe vegan style pancakes
Here are the main steps to make whatever version of this blueberry pancake dessert that you want.
The focus in these steps is on a blueberry black rice pancake. It’s maybe a bit more complicated because of the extra liquid from the blueberries.
Plus, this version is a little thicker, so it takes longer to cook. It’s also uses black rice itself, instead of grinding it into flour.
I mean that I started with black rice, and blended it to a paste. See the steps below.
soak rice for a minimum of 4 hours
put rice in a blender, with water and coconut milk
blend until rice is crushed, but not 100% smooth (like it would be if you were using normal flower)
pour into a mix bowl, and add coconut milk, more water, salt, baking powder.
Then, stir mix with a spoon until you get a thick paste (but again, not too smooth… so don’t overdo)
Heat a non-stick pan (ideally, but even a wok is fine).
Add a small amount of olive oil just so pancake does not stick.
With a ladle, add a large dollop into the warm pan on your stove. (For this recipe, leave it quite thick, as you see in the picture of one cooking in the pan, below).
Let it cook just a little, and then add blueberries to top of the pancake (see picture below).
Cook on a low heat for about 10 minutes before you turn. It will bubble, and you can check when it gets sufficiently cooked to allow you to flip it with a spatula.
Then cook the other side for 6-8 minutes… depending on heat… but be careful not to burn.
Serve on a plate with fruit like fresh banana slices, or strawberry slices, or both. Sprinkle the whole lot with cinnamon.
Test out if you prefer it with coconut yoghurt, and / or some lemon or lime juice.
As an alternative, a thinner mix (as pictured in the Flametree retreat version above, or at the every end of this black rice recipe), can be made with a mix of white rice, and black rice flour.
As I mentioned, grind the black rice into flour by using a coffee grinder, or blender (if you have the attachment). See below for more on this alternative version. Or use the bought black rice flour, and white rice flour.
The picture below shows this alternative mix of black and white rice flour.
Pancake made with both white rice flour, & black rice flour.
A black rice pancake made with 50% of each of black rice and white rice flour, and no blueberries. See the coconut yoghurt, & fruit filling, before it was rolled up.
Simpler black rice pancakes option, without blueberries embedded
The pancakes below, and immediately above, have no blueberries.
It’s more like the version that we eat regularly at Flametree Bali retreats, such as shown further up this page… in the stack of pancakes.
It’s also delicious, and offers you a range of fresh fruit options to put with it.
In short, leave out the blueberries, and make a more conventional pancake mix, using black rice flour, mixed with about one third to one half of white rice flour.
Otherwise, you can use most of the “how to” directions above.
But, mix it with a mixing spoon, rather than a blender (for both versions). For this version, have the pre-cooked paste be pourable, so it ends up as thin as what you see in each of the pictures below.
Another pancakes with black rice recipes vegetarian pancake option.
My version of the black rice pancakes without blueberries. Also delicious.
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Please let me know if you also like this vegetarian breakfast or dessert. You can comment below.
Plus, please contact me with any other dishes you’d like to share with me, or with others in our Flametree Yoga Studio community.
Meanwhile, enjoy another black rice coconut milk recipe with blueberries, or your favourite fruit.
Plus, it’s good to know that it’s relatively low sugar, depending mainly on the fruit you add, and nearly 9% protein.
My final version of the pancakes, made with a mix of black and white rice flour, is pictured below.
Alternative, with a black & white flour mix
Why is black rice recipes healthy? Because it’s 9% protein, low sugar (depending on fruit added mainly), & has many other nutrients. Best of all, both this version, and the first version shown above, are totally moreish! So, add it to your vegan recipes with black rice.
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My yummy black rice pancake dessert roll for whatever you fancy.
A black rice pancake rolled up, with fruit & coconut yoghurt inside, after I did a 50:50 mix of black rice flour and white rice flour.
Thanks Chris! Will try. I usually make pancakes for the kids by grinding up unstablised oats. We sometimes blend a banana and an egg to the mix. I wonder if mixing a banana into a black rice based pancake would be an option too. Cheers Lisa
Hi Lisa. Thanks for your comments. We find banana cooked into things like this, is usually good. Would be worth experimenting with the size of the chunks of banana. Let’s know how you go. Stuart
Thanks Chris! Will try. I usually make pancakes for the kids by grinding up unstablised oats. We sometimes blend a banana and an egg to the mix. I wonder if mixing a banana into a black rice based pancake would be an option too. Cheers Lisa
Hi Lisa. Thanks for your comments. We find banana cooked into things like this, is usually good. Would be worth experimenting with the size of the chunks of banana. Let’s know how you go. Stuart