{"slug":"spelt-waffles","collection":"recipes","is_recipe":true,"visibility":"public","title":"Spelt Waffles","description":"Light everyday spelt waffles made with oat milk and olive oil. A short batter rest hydrates the whole-grain flour so they bake up tender instead of grainy; a spoonful of sugar helps browning.","body_md":"Plain, simple everyday waffles that go with most traditional toppings.\n\n## Ingredients\n\n-   270g (2¼ cups) spelt flour\n-   1 tablespoon sugar\n-   1 tablespoon baking powder\n-   3g (1 tsp) kosher salt\n-   2 eggs\n-   420ml (1¾ cups) oat milk, divided\n-   60ml (¼ cup) olive oil\n\n## Preparation\n\n1. Preheat the waffle iron per the manufacturer's directions; oil the iron if needed.\n\n2. **Dry:** In a large bowl, whisk together the spelt flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.\n\n3. **Wet:** In another bowl, whisk together the eggs, 300ml (1¼ cups) of the oat milk, and the olive oil.\n\n4. **Combine:** Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and stir just until combined — lumps are fine. Spelt's gluten is more fragile than wheat's; mixing until smooth makes gummy, flat waffles.\n\n5. **Rest:** Let the batter stand 10–15 minutes while the iron finishes heating. It will thicken as the flour absorbs the liquid — the rest is what takes the raw taste and grainy texture out of whole spelt.\n\n6. **Thin:** Stir in the remaining 120ml (½ cup) oat milk, more or less as needed, until the batter pours easily.\n\n7. Bake in the waffle iron per the manufacturer's instructions.\n\n## Notes\n\n- **Label correction (2026-07-30):** the Vegan theme was contradicted by the base recipe, which contains 2 eggs and offers melted butter. Vegetarian is retained and is accurate. No dietary issue for this household — eggs and dairy are fine — but the label was wrong.\n- **Quantity repair (2026-07-30):** the fat line read '¼ olive oil, melted butter, or one mashed ripe banana' — a quarter of no stated unit. Resolved to 60ml (¼ cup).\n- **Revision (2026-08-09):** butter and mashed-banana fat alternatives removed — never actually cooked here; olive oil is the tested fat. Salt raised from ¼ tsp to 3g (1 tsp Diamond Crystal kosher, 3g/tsp; ~1.1% of flour — the old amount was ~0.3%). 1 tablespoon sugar added for browning. Oat milk consolidated to one 420ml line, divided 300ml/120ml (was 240ml + 180ml on two lines; total unchanged) — the reserve is added *after* the rest so the hydrated batter gets minimal extra agitation. 10–15 minute rest added: without it the waffles tasted raw and grainy; the rest lets the whole-grain flour absorb the liquid, and double-acting baking powder keeps the lift cost small. Mixing target changed from \"just until smooth\" to \"just until combined\" for spelt's fragile gluten. Flour parenthetical corrected — 270g is 2¼ cups (the old \"10oz\" was a rounding error; 270g = 9.5oz). Method retagged Griddle → Waffle Iron. \"Base/original version\" and \"deviations per version\" framing removed — no variant versions exist in the collection.\n","draft":false,"servings":"4","prep_time":"10 minutes","cook_time":"20 minutes","total_time":"45 minutes (includes 10–15 minute batter rest)","source_name":"Original","created_at":"2021-08-02T21:11:36Z","updated_at":"2026-08-09T15:14:19.856806Z","categories":["Breakfast"],"tags":["Spelt"],"methods":["Waffle Iron"],"themes":["Vegetarian"],"ingredients":[{"section":"","items":["-   270g (2¼ cups) spelt flour","-   1 tablespoon sugar","-   1 tablespoon baking powder","-   3g (1 tsp) kosher salt","-   2 eggs","-   420ml (1¾ cups) oat milk, divided","-   60ml (¼ cup) olive oil"],"parsed":[{"raw":"-   270g (2¼ cups) spelt flour","qty":270,"unit":"g","item":"spelt flour"},{"raw":"-   1 tablespoon sugar","qty":1,"unit":"tbsp","item":"sugar"},{"raw":"-   1 tablespoon baking powder","qty":1,"unit":"tbsp","item":"baking powder"},{"raw":"-   3g (1 tsp) kosher salt","qty":3,"unit":"g","item":"kosher salt"},{"raw":"-   2 eggs","qty":2,"item":"eggs"},{"raw":"-   420ml (1¾ cups) oat milk, divided","qty":420,"unit":"ml","item":"oat milk","prep":"divided"},{"raw":"-   60ml (¼ cup) olive oil","qty":60,"unit":"ml","item":"olive oil"}]}],"servings_int":4,"qc":{"status":"passed","last_checked_at":"2026-08-09T15:14:58.558377Z","checked_by":"robert@sigler.io","standard_version":"2026-07-30","findings_count":0,"stale":false}}