Healthy Banana Oat Pancakes

Healthy pancakes with oats, bananas, and spelt flour. Easily and quickly prepared, and oh so delicious!

What better way to kickstart your day than with a wonderfully delightful and healthy breakfast?

This breakfast is a hit for both young and old, super versatile, and tastes sublimely delectable.

(Please scroll further down to find additional tips and more detailed information.)

Ingredients

A few everyday items readily available at most stores (or already at home in your pantry) will suffice to make these scrumptious banana and oat pancakes:

Here are a few more tips on specific ingredients:

• Bananas: The bananas should be well-ripened. The browner the peel, the sweeter the results. In terms of quantity, you’ll need 1 ripe banana per 6 pancakes, and as far as produce size is concerned, it really doesn’t matter much.

• Rolled oats: Use whichever oats you have on hand, whether it’s quick oats or steel-cut oats. In the case of steel-cut oats, you might have to grind them a bit longer.

• Spelt flour: Alternatively, you may also use pastry flour instead of spelt flour. The flour used in this recipe is white spelt flour. If you are having a hard time finding white spelt flour, just go with regular spelt flour instead.

• Milk: Use whichever milkfat percentage you prefer.

Detailed Instructions

Not enough details for you to whip up the sugar-free banana oat pancakes? Find below a step-by-step guide to follow, including lots of helpful tips and pictures to help you along the way.

Let’s start by separating our egg.

Beat the egg white with a hand mixer until stiff, then set it aside or store in the fridge.

Set the egg yolk aside as well, but have it ready to grab, since you’ll need it in our very next step.

Peel the banana and mash it thoroughly with a fork.

Place the banana in a separate bowl, then combine it with the egg yolk and incorporate everything well.

Feel free to use a hand mixer. That’ll create a lovely, smooth batter. However, a whisk or fork will work just as well.

Place the oats in a food processor or something similar and grind them. I sometimes use a coffee grinder if I only have smaller amounts to process.

(If none of the above are available, and you only have an immersion blender on hand, go ahead and use it. While it won’t give the best result, it will still break down the oats to some extent.)

Keep in mind that we are not necessarily aiming for a flour-like texture. It’s perfectly fine to have some coarser pieces in there, too.  The final product should, however, be much finer than what we started with.

Please refer to the following picture for a more accurate representation of what we are looking for:

Now, let’s combine all the above ingredients.

Add the oat flour to the banana and egg yolk mixture along with the spelt flour, baking powder, milk, cinnamon, and salt.

Incorporate everything well.

Carefully fold in the egg white using a spatula. You can speed things up a bit by using a whisk or hand mixer (lowest setting). Only mix until everything is well incorporated.

Let’s start cooking.

To avoid ending up with burned pancakes, don’t skimp on the oil. Nobody likes “scorched” pancakes ;). But we also don’t want our pancakes drowning in oil. Just make sure the pan is fully and evenly coated with oil, which is best accomplished using a basting brush.

I recommend using olive oil or rapeseed oil. Coconut oil would be, in terms of taste, most fitting, however, you’d require larger amounts to make sure nothing burns. Hence, my above recommendations ;).

Scoop out the batter using a larger spoon or smaller ladle and pour it into the heated pan. Cook until it starts to set on the bottom and bubbles are visible on the top. Carefully flip the banana egg oat pancakes and continue to cook until both sides are golden brown.

You may chow down on those delicious, healthy banana and oat pancakes while they are still warm!

The pancakes may be garnished with anything you like, such as fresh fruit, nuts, nut butter, maple syrup, etc.

They can also be enjoyed as a little snacky snack once cooled down. The ideal snack to grab and go, or to have on hand whenever hunger strikes!

Also, perfect for after-school munchies when kids are being picked up from school. You know, when they hop in the car and instead of saying, “Hey mom, how was your day? I missed you,” it goes more like, “I’m starving. Got any food in here?”

FAQ

I’ve tried and tested the Healthy Banana Oat Pancakes recipe more than 10 times before I finally nailed the perfect mix of ingredients.

Here’s to a successful recipe re-creation, and I hope this blog post provides you with genuinely helpful tips.

Your feedback on these pancakes would be greatly appreciated.

Yours,

Lisa

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