Oat Flour Pancakes

3 cooked pancakes placed on a round black plate.

These Oat Flour Pancakes are ultra soft and fluffy. It is a healthier pancake recipe that uses just 2 tablespoons of butter for the entire batch. For a gluten-free option, swap in gluten-free oats.

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Keyword healthy oat pancakes, healthy oatmeal pancakes, oat flour pancakes, pancakes with oat flour

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 15

Additional Time 5

Total Time 30

Servings Pancakes

Calories 98kcal

Author Maria Doss

Equipment

Blender

Ingredients

Dry ingredients

2 cups rolled oats use gluten free oats for GF pancakes
1 tablespoon sugar white, brown or coconut sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt

Wet ingredients

2 eggs large
1 ¼ cups buttermilk, more if needed
2 tablespoons melted butter, more to make pancakes

Instructions

Add rolled oats into a food processor or a high powdered blender and process until it becomes a very fine powder. 2 cups rolled oats yield 2 cups oat flour.
Tip: Ensure that your oat flour is finely ground. If it's too coarse, it can make the pancakes grainy and dense.
Add oat flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a large bowl and whisk to combine.
Into another smaller bowl, add eggs, buttermilk and melted butter. Whisk until combined well.
Pour into the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
Place a non-stick pan over medium-high heat and add some coconut oil or butter, when moderately hot. Ladle about ⅓ cup batter into the skillet.
Cook until golden brown on the bottom, flip and cook on the other side.
Tip: For the best rise, cook the pancakes over medium to high heat. Lower heat settings can result in pancakes that don't achieve the desired height.
Repeat process with remaining batter and serve pancakes hot with maple syrup.
Pro tip: Oats have a natural tendency to absorb moisture, causing the pancake batter to thicken slightly before each batch is cooked. To achieve the desired consistency, I prefer to stir in a dash of buttermilk into the batter just before cooking each pancake batch.

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Notes

Stir in a splash of buttermilk before cooking each batch of pancakes, to get the batter to the right consistency.

For the best rise, cook the pancakes over medium to high heat. Lower heat settings can result in pancakes that don't achieve the desired height.

Oat flour can be made in Nutri bullet, Vitamix or food processor.

2 cups rolled oats yields 2 cups flour.

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