Oat Flour Pancakes

3 cooked pancakes placed on a round black plate.

These Oat Flour Pancakes are thick, soft, and fluffy, but made healthier with no refined flour. Blend rolled oats into flour at home and make these easy, wholesome buttermilk pancakes for a breakfast you’ll love!

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 (224 gms)
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 (150 ml) more if needed
2 tablespoons melted butter (28 gms) 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.
👉 Aim for a thick yet pourable batter—one that flows slowly off a spoon or ladle, not one that’s stiff or clumpy. If it feels too thick, simply stir in a splash of buttermilk until you reach the right consistency.
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 your pancakes over medium to high heat. If the heat’s too low, they might turn out flat instead of nice and fluffy.
Repeat process with remaining batter and serve pancakes hot with maple syrup.
👉 Pro tip: Before each batch, check the batter consistency and stir in a splash of buttermilk if needed to keep it pourable. Oats absorb moisture, so the batter can thicken as it sits.

Video

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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