Healthy Pancakes

Pancakes topped with peanut butter, banana and blueberries on the side

Pancakes are one of the best clean eating healthy treats in existence. They make an amazing breakfast, and can be made using basically the same ingredients you would use to make a bowl of porridge, so therefore you need not worry about the calorie content! You can whip them up in around 10 minutes, and you can go wild with toppings or extra ingredients. I have seen hundreds of different recipes and ways of making the pancakes, but I will share with you the most basic recipe I have used which works well.

Ingredients

To make 1 serving (roughly makes 6 small round pancakes)

40g oat flour (blend oats in a blender)

1 whole egg & 1 egg white, whisked

3 tbsp of liquid of your choice (almond milk, soya milk, milk, water)

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

3 tsp stevia

Instructions

1. Mix together the oat flour, whisked egg and liquid until smooth. The mixture needs to be thick but runny, judge this yourself and just add more liquid if it is too thick.

2. Stir in the baking powder, cinnamon and stevia.

3. Heat a small amount of butter/oil/cooking spray in a frying pan on a low temperature.

4. Spoon in the mixture into circles on the frying pan, to whatever size you want your pancakes to be. Remember that they will rise.

5. Leave to cook for about 3/4 minutes until they are nicely browned, then flip.

6. The second side will only need about 1 minute of cooking.

7. Serve, and top with peanut butter and chopped banana, or whatever you fancy!

Done!

I initially struggled when cooking the pancakes, as the mixture always seemed to burn and stick to my frying pan, almost ruining my pan every time I tried to cook them! So I have found that cooking them on quite a low heat solves this issue, I need to learn to be a bit more patient when cooking... 

Variation: 

Chocolate pancakes topped with banana, peanut butter & honey. For chocolate pancakes, just add  1 tsp of unsweetened cocoa powder to the pancake mixture

Keep an eye out, as I am going to try some new ingredients & recipe ideas I have soon, there are so many to try. I think it is going to be pancakes for breakfast everyday for me for the foreseeable future. Nom nom nom!

Lucy x