Ahualoa Family Farms Macadamia Nut Recipe: Chef Renee's Mac Nut Pancakes

Aloha, welcome to a Hualoa family farm mini kitchen series. I'm Chef Renee and I'm here to teach you how to make our macadamia nut pancakes. So we're gonna take our macadamia nut mix here that you can find on our shop and online. So we already have it open and we're gonna put it inside of the bowl here. Instructions are on the back, so if you wanna follow along, they'll be right there posted with some information. And then you can always add some extra things at the end like we do. So we have our pancake mix in the bowl and what we're gonna do is take a cup and a third of cold water. And we're just gonna go ahead and mix that. You want this semi-lumpy, that way it can still sit at temperature and then it's not too flat when you go ahead and pour it into the pan. So we're just gonna go ahead and keep whisking. Now if you're like me, I like to add a little vanilla. I add some cinnamon to it. We also have a banana chocolate one that I like as well and I like to add a little bit vanilla to that one too. And sometimes some fresh mashed banana. So you can actually adapt this and make it any way that you like. So look at that nice and thick consistency. This is what you're looking for. And it's gonna be lumpy, so it doesn't have to be all smooth. And remember we have our signature small piece macadamia nuts in there as well. So we're gonna let this sit for just about a minute and when it's ready, we'll go ahead and go ahead and put it in the pan. All right, now that we've let that batter sit for a minute, what we're gonna go ahead and do and scoop it right into our pan. So I have a half a cup here. You're welcome to use a third or any size that you really want your pancake. And I'm just gonna go ahead and fill it up. Some people like to use measuring cups. Others like to use like a measuring spoon or something that is just easy for it to spread in the pan. And what you're gonna notice is it's quite lumpy. That's because we have our small piece style macadamia nuts that are 100% Hawaiian and local. So we purchase our macadamia nuts from the local farmers. We dice and process them at our factory and they're brought here into our kitchen to make products like you see here today. So what we're waiting for is the bubbles to reach the middle of the pancake before we flip it. And then it will have a nice crusty edge. This is a nonstick pan, but you're welcome to put like our macadamia nut oil on the inside or a little bit of butter just to prevent it from sticking. So our pancake's ready to be flipped. And here we go, we got a nice golden brown. All right, so we're gonna go ahead and plate this. So we have our three stack pancake. I'm gonna put this guy right on the top. Well, what we have here is our macadamia nut pancake. And we're gonna go ahead and top it off with some of our other macadamia nut products that we love. We have our mac butter that we make in-house. Again, locally sourced. We are just gonna put a little tab of that right on top of the pancake in place of your butter. So again, we locally sourced the honey. We get it from Hilo on the island, a big island here. That's actually what we use inside of the spread as well. Let me do a nice little drizzle of honey. And then we're gonna top it off with just a bit more of our macadamia nut. Thanks for joining us, folks. I'm Chef Renée. Make sure you stay tuned at Ahuoloa Family Farms for more mini kitchen series. Mahalo. And here we go, Matt. Our macadamia nut pancakes. Get it ready. You look so aware. The butter is so good.