Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Begin by grinding your soft white wheat berries (3 cups, 320 g). I highly recommend weighing the berries out before putting them through your grain mill as relying on volume measurements can be inconsistent.
- While the grain is grinding add to the bowl with the milled flour salt (1/2 tsp), baking powder (2 tsp), baking soda (1 tsp) and sugar (2 tbsp, 25 g).
- Whisk together milk (2 cups, 480 g), 2 eggs, melted butter or avocado oil (1/3 cup, 75 g) and vanilla (1 tbsp).
- Combine wet and dry ingredients and whisk just until the lumps are dissolved in the batter, making sure to get the flour in the very bottom of the bowl. Cover your waffle batter and allow it to rest for about 15 minutes. This allows the freshly milled flour to absorb the liquids.
- While the batter is resting turn on your waffle maker and allow it to heat up. Set to medium-high heat.
- Grease your waffle maker if needed and add about 1/2 cup of batter (or whatever amount fills most of your waffle mold) to the hot waffle maker. Close and allow the waffle to cook for about 3 minutes. Flip the waffle maker after adding the batter if yours has this ability.
- Removed the cooked waffle and place on a cooling rack if you have one. Repeat the process until all of the batter has been used. This recipe will make approximately 12 standard sized waffles.
- Enjoy your warm, nutritious waffled smothered in butter, fruit, maple syrup or all of it! I won’t tell!
Notes
Recipe tips
Make sure you allow the waffle batter to rest before cooking the waffles for the best texture.
Double this recipe every time you make them for extra freezer waffles. All you have to do is pop them in the toaster from frozen and they taste super fresh!
Freezer instructions
Allow the waffles to cool after baking. Then break up the waffle sections (this allows them to fit more easily into a standard toaster). Then place in a freezer safe ziplock and store in the freezer for 3-6 months.
The waffles may stick together a little which is no big deal (they pop apart just fine), but if you're taking these to a friend and would prefer they didn't you can freeze the individual pieces flat on a parchment lined cookie sheet and then place them in the ziplock bag.
Substitutions
Soft white wheat – you can use spelt or another soft wheat variety in these fresh milled waffles. I would avoid using hard wheat varieties.
Milk – you can sub equal amounts of buttermilk for the milk in this recipe
Butter – avocado oil or coconut oil also work well for the oil component
Sugar – maple syrup, honey or coconut sugar are great substitutions if you want to avoid refined sugar. I would recommend adding about 1/4 cup if substituting with any of these instead of the 2 tbsp of sugar called for in the recipe.
Milk – you can sub equal amounts of buttermilk for the milk in this recipe
Butter – avocado oil or coconut oil also work well for the oil component
Sugar – maple syrup, honey or coconut sugar are great substitutions if you want to avoid refined sugar. I would recommend adding about 1/4 cup if substituting with any of these instead of the 2 tbsp of sugar called for in the recipe.