Easy Banana Oat Pancakes

Gluten free, refined sugar free, dairy free if you use plant milk.

Recipe makes approximately 4 fluffy pancakes.

The recipe is easily adjustable and customisable. Add in a dash of cinnamon, or a teaspoon or two of cocoa and some orange zest.

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Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

1/4 cup Rolled Oats

1/4 tsp Baking Soda

1/4 tsp Salt

1 scoop Protein Powder (optional)

Wet Ingredients

1 Banana

1 Egg

1/4 cup Plant Milk

1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract (optional)

Coconut Oil for frying

Toppings of your choice

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Method

These can be made all in one blender/food processor/nutri-bullet or if you don’t have one of these you can make them by hand. By hand mix the wet and dry separately before combining them.

1. If you are using a blender. Add all the ingredients except the plant milk and whiz up until combined. You may need to scrape down the sides once or twice to avoid any clumps.

2. Leave the batter for a couple of minutes to allow the oats to absorb the liquid. Then make a judgement call as to whether you need any add any milk to loosen up the batter or more oats to thicken it. The batter should be American pancake style thickness not crepe batter thinness.

3. Starting heating up your non-stick frying pan on a medium low heat. Add 1/2 tbsp coconut oil (depending on how large your frying pan is, you want a very thin coating). Leave to heat up for a few seconds.

4. Ideally using a 1/4 or 1/3 cup measurer pour a dollop of batter into the middle of the pan. The batter should naturally flow and form a circle. You shouldn’t need to encourage it, neither should it flow all the way to the sides of the pan. If either of these happen, you will need to adjust the thickness of your batter.

5. Cook until little bubbles start to appear on your pancake, then carefully flip. Fry from another minute or two until both sides are golden brown. Repeat with the rest of your batter.

6. Stack em up and add your toppings of desire!

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Notes

As for most baking, ripe bananas are best, but this is a very versatile recipe, so you can use any banana you have, it may just vary the volume of plant milk required.

All eggs are different sizes, so depending if you use a large or a small egg, you may need to add a little more or little less plant milk, or even add a sprinkle more oats.

You don’t have to use plant milk, you can use cows milk.

Protein Powder is optional, I occasionally add a scoop of vegan pea protein powder to mine, but just be aware that the pancakes will take on the flavour of the protein powder.