You guys know me by now. I'm all about getting as many good things into my kids as I can. It makes me feel good to know that I'm not only feeding them nutritious meals but setting a foundation that hopefully will set the stage for their food choices in the future, although allowing The Almost-9-Year-Old to make his own lunch decisions is eye opening.
Let's save that for another post.
Anyway … back to these pancakes. They came out really yummy! Both kids agreed although they compliment my cooking the same way their Daddy does…
…by simply eating.
I swear, one day I'll be surrounded my people who actually get excited about food the way I do! Until then I will take their silence as approval because Lord knows they are vocal enough when they DON'T like something I make.
For these pancakes I decided to pull out all the good stuff I had in the pantry.
I love that things like chia, flax and oat flour are getting more and more popular. I'm seeing them everywhere now and it's makes cooking things up like this much more convenient. Before I found oat and almond flour at my local store I was grinding my own. It still works -- click here to see my almond oat pancake recipe -- but having things already ground is a lot faster and the pancakes come out fluffier. The kids like that.
I use a banana as the sweetener and find it absolutely perfect. Plus the 3-Year-Old refuses to eat them so I like knowing he still has some kind of banana in his diet. He and I eat the pancakes straight up, too, no syrup or anything. The Almost-9-Year-Old like syrup or applesauce to dip.
Here's what I do…
Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana, mashed
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ ground nutmeg
- â…” cup (6 fl. oz) milk (Any milk will work; I used 2% and almond with success.)
- â…” cup oat flour (80g)
- 2 tablespoon ground flaxseed meal (13g)
- ½ cup almond flour (25g)
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds (13g)
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
Whisk the mashed banana with the egg, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Whisk in the milk and then add all the dry ingredients except the baking powder and soda.
Once everything is well combined, gently stir in the baking soda and baking powder.
Heat non-stick griddle over medium heat and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
Use about â…› cup of batter to make each cake.
Flip once edges just start to become solid and the bottoms are nice and golden.
Pile up and serve!
Makes 12-13 pancakes.
Anyone else sneak healthy things into pancakes? I'd love a few more ideas!
Here's the nutritional info using unsweetened almond milk…
📖 Recipe
The How Many Healthy Things Can I Get Into a Pancake Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana mashed
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ ground nutmeg
- â…” cup 6 fl. oz milk (Any milk will work; I used 2% and almond with success.)
- â…” cup oat flour 80g
- 2 tablespoon ground flaxseed meal 13g
- ½ cup almond flour 25g
- 1 tablespoon chia seeds 13g
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- Whisk the mashed banana with the egg, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg.1 large egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, ½ ground nutmeg
- Whisk in the milk and then add all the dry ingredients except the baking powder and soda.1 ripe banana, ⅔ cup 6 fl. oz milk (Any milk will work; I used 2% and almond with success.), ⅔ cup oat flour, 2 tablespoon ground flaxseed meal, ½ cup almond flour, 1 tablespoon chia seeds, ½ teaspoon baking soda
- Once everything is well combined, gently stir in the baking soda and baking powder.½ teaspoon baking powder
- Heat non-stick griddle over medium heat and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
- Use about â…› cup of batter to make each cake.
- Flip once edges just start to become solid and the bottoms are nice and golden.
- Pile up and serve!
Stephanie
No new ideas, but I have been making your whole wheat banana panacakes for about 3 years now and we love them! In fact, they are on our menu tonight for dinner. So easy and my 4.5 yo doesnt seem to know the difference between these and the ones as big as her head you get at a restaurant (and thats a good thing for me!)
Sharita
Hi . . .these look delicious!! As I scan thru the pictorial it looks like there's 5 dry ingredients (?) in the bowl . . . or am I just seeing shadows . . . anyway, they look yummy!!! Thanks for sharing . . . . you inspired me to add chia seeds & milled flax to my oatmeal this morning . . . 🙂
roni
Yes, I think it's a shadow on the oat flour. You're right though, it does look like five!
Rhiannon
Looks yum! I don't think I have all of that built up yet but when I do a pantry clear out next weekend I'll see how much of this I can pull together.
On the banana - I dislike them too, so much so that if I pick up a piece of banana bread/cake without realising (usually from a provided lunch or work nibbles) I can taste the banana and don't like it. Would applesauce or something similar work in it's place?
roni
These are not very banana-y but yes applesauce should work, I even used pumpkin but you need to add some honey to sweeten them then.
heather
Is almond meal the same as almond flour?
roni
Yup! I don't know why I called it that.
Thea @ It's Me Vs. Me
Oooooh. I kind of like that they are GF, too. I'm definitely going to add these to our pancake rotation.
Paula
These look wonderful! I've bought some chia seeds but have not figured how to incorporate them other than smoothies.