These gluten-free oat flour pancakes are a delicious alternative to traditional pancakes. This is healthy, frugal breakfast recipe.
Pancakes happen just about every weekend in my house.
Depending on the mood of the person who’s making them, they take many different forms. We make them with wheat flour, white flour, gluten-free flour, or a combination.
I recently decided to give another flour a try. Oats are so healthy for breakfast, so I thought, “Why not oat flour pancakes?”
After a few tries, I worked out this easy recipe for making pancakes with oat flour. The flavor is delicious, and it’s great to have another way to incorporate oats into my family’s diet.
Oat Flour Pancakes Tips
Oat Flour: You can buy pre-packaged oat flour, or you can make your own by grinding oats in a high powered blender.
It takes about 1 1/4 cups of rolled oats to make 1 cup of oat flour. This quantity of oats from Costco costs $.10. This is actually more affordable than any other flour I’ve used to make pancakes.
A cup of pre-packaged Bob’s Red Mill oat flour costs $.76 per cup. While it’s much more frugal to grind your own oat flour, you may want to grab a bag of already ground flour to save time in the morning.
Batter Texture: It’s best to cook these pancakes immediately after making the batter. If you leave it sitting for a while (or refrigerate overnight), the batter will thicken due to the oats. If this happens, just add an additional ¼ cup of coconut milk or so to the thickened batter. This should return it to a pourable consistency to make the pancakes.
Substitutions: If the oat flavor is too strong for your family, try substituting gluten-free flour or white whole wheat flour for up to half the oat flour in this recipe.
Here’s a video showing the easy process behind this recipe:
Try my chocolate oat pudding and steel cut oats cookies for other sneaky oatmeal recipes your family will love.
Oat Flour Pancakes
Ingredients
- 2 cups oat flour 2 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups coconut milk
- 1/4 cup melted coconut oil
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Place 2 1/2 cups rolled oats in a high-powered blender or food processor. Process until you have 2 cups of fine oat flour. (Skip this step if you’re using pre-packaged oat flour.)
- In a medium bowl, stir together the oat flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
- In a large bowl, mix the eggs, coconut milk, coconut oil, and vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
- Heat a griddle pan over medium high heat. Lower the heat to medium low, then pour circles of batter onto the griddle. Use about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake to get 12 pancakes. Cook for one to two minutes on each side, flipping when the surface of the pancakes are dotted with small bubbles.
- Serve with fruit and maple syrup.
Nutrition Estimate
Gluten-Free Oat Pancakes Price Breakdown
This recipe costs a total of $1.69 to make, or $.42 per serving (3 pancakes). Try these easy oat flour pancakes for a healthier version of this classic weekend breakfast.
Carol says
I’m allergic to coconut anything. What can I substitute?
Annemarie says
Carol, any kind of milk will do, and you could use melted butter or avocado oil in place of the coconut oil.
Taylor M. says
What is one serving? Like how many pancakes is one serving? How big are the pancakes?
Annemarie says
Taylor, there are 3 pancakes in one serving, and each pancake uses 1/4 cup of batter (see #4 in the instructions). Each pancake is 3 to 4 inches wide.
Kim says
Can I prep the dry ingredients and keep them it stored til I make a batch by adding liquids? Like making my own pancake mix?
Annemarie says
I haven’t tried this, but it should work. Because of the oat flour, I recommend storing it in the refrigerator. Let me know if you try it!
Bridget says
These pancakes turned out really great^^, thank you for sharing this.
Laura Duffy says
What a delicious way to use oat flour! I bet it makes fantastic pancakes ?
Anne Lawton says
I make my own oat flour a lot from oats and I love the way pancakes turn out when I use it. These pancakes look delicious too!
STACEY CRAWFORD says
Wow, these are so fluffy and delicious! I love the flavor or oat flour with cinnamon!
Kari - Get Inspired Everyday! says
These are what I call weekend perfection, nothing like a stack of fluffy pancakes on Saturday morning!
ChihYu says
They are so fluffy delicious! Totally love it!
Hope says
These look like a great way to start the day!
Raia Todd says
Love easy recipes like this. I might have to double it and try it out on my family. 🙂
Sara says
Love the use of oat flour and love making your own oat flour even more!
Leslie says
Awesome recipe! I often use oat flour for gluten-free pancakes for my kiddos! I’ll have to try your recipe this weekend!
jennifer says
Always looking for a new pancake recipe and especially one I can share with gluten-free family members! these look so yummy
paleoglutenfreeguy says
Those look so toasty and fluffy! I want that whole stack right now. 😉
Tessa Simpson says
I love the touch of cinnamon!! So simple and straight forward, a perfect way to a hearty start!
Joni Gomes says
Oat pancakes are my favorite kind! Will try out your recipe!
Zuzana says
This looks really easy to make
Cheryl Malik says
These look SO fluffy!