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Oat Flour Pancakes

May 11, 2022 Breakfast, Gluten-Free/Dairy-Free, Recipes, Vegetarian

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These gluten-free oat flour pancakes are a delicious alternative to traditional pancakes. This is healthy, frugal breakfast recipe.

These dairy-free, gluten-free oat flour pancakes are a delicious alternative to traditional pancakes. This is such a healthy, frugal breakfast recipe!

Oat flour pancakes with syrup and strawberries

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.

These oat flour pancakes are one of my favorite versions. Oats are a nutritious option for breakfast, so it’s natural to enjoy them in pancake form on the weekends. The flavor is delicious, and it’s great to have another way to incorporate oats into my family’s diet.

Step By Step Instructions to Make These Oat Flour Pancakes

Oats in the blender before processing
Oat flour in the blender after processing

Step One: Prepare the Oats

Place 2 cups of rolled oats in a high-powered blender or food processor. Process on high for 20 to 30 seconds, or until you have 2 cups of fine oat flour. (Skip this step if you’re using pre-packaged oat flour.)

Dry ingredients in a bowl

Step Two: Prepare the Dry Ingredients

In a medium bowl, whisk together the oat flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.

Oat flour pancake batter in a bowl

Step Three: Prepare the Wet Ingredients & Combine with Dry Ingredients

In a large bowl, mix the eggs, coconut milk, coconut oil, and vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredients and stir to combine.

Pancake on the griddle

Step Four: Cook the Oat Flour Pancakes

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. Flip when the surface of the pancakes are dotted with small bubbles. Serve with fruit and maple syrup.

Tips and Frequently Asked Questions

How Do You Make Oat Flour?

You can buy pre-packaged oat flour, or you can make your own by grinding oats in a high powered blender. Blend old fashioned oats for about 20 to 30 seconds to get a fairly smooth flour.

How Much Does Oat Flour Cost?

It takes about a cup of rolled oats to make a 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 about $.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 when you’re making these oat flour pancakes.

Does the Pancake Batter Need to Sit Before Cooking?

It’s best to cook these pancakes immediately after making the pancake 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 non-dairy milk to the thickened batter. This should return it to a pourable consistency to make the pancakes.

What Substitutions Can Be Made?

If the oat flavor is too strong for your family in these oat flour pancakes, try substituting gluten-free flour or white whole wheat flour for up to half the oat flour in this recipe. 

You can also use oat milk, almond milk, or any other type of milk in these pancakes.

Chocolate chips or fresh berries (blueberries, strawberries, or raspberries) can be added for an extra special flavor.

How Should Leftovers Be Stored?

I like to cook all the pancakes, and then store the leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for a few days. They can be heated briefly in the microwave or toaster oven before serving.

Try my oat flour waffles, oat flour cookies, chocolate oat pudding, steel cut oats cookies, and oat flour banana bread for other sneaky oatmeal recipes your family will love.

Oat flour pancakes with maple syrup

Oat Flour Pancakes

These oat flour pancakes are a healthy, gluten-free breakfast recipe.
$.42 per serving
4.96 from 25 votes
Print Pin Rate
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Pancakes
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4
Calories: 412kcal
Author: Annemarie Rossi

Ingredients

  • 2 cups oat flour (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 cups of 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

Calories: 412kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 82mg | Sodium: 480mg | Potassium: 406mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 120IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 144mg | Iron: 3mg
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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.

Note: This post was originally published in 2019, and it was updated in 2022.

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  1. Brigitte says

    March 15, 2022 at 9:06 am

    5 stars
    Can I use soy milk instead of coconut milk ?

    Reply
    • Annemarie says

      March 15, 2022 at 9:08 am

      Yes, any milk will work for this recipe. Enjoy!

      Reply
  2. Diane L says

    November 6, 2021 at 9:11 pm

    Can I replace the coconut oil with a different type of oil? Which oil would you recommend as a good substitute?

    Reply
    • Annemarie says

      November 6, 2021 at 9:26 pm

      You can replace the coconut oil with avocado oil or melted butter.

      Reply
  3. Isabella says

    June 15, 2021 at 10:22 am

    5 stars
    This recipe was AMAZING! I made it because I had to eat a healthy breakfast with no white sugar or white flour and it worked. The batter acted just like normal batter and it was so good. This will be my recipe to make whenever I need a healthy easy recipe for breakfast. Thank you 😊

    Reply
  4. Donna W. says

    May 30, 2021 at 1:33 pm

    5 stars
    Thanks for the delicious GF recipe! I halved the recipe, used oat milk, used 1/2 refined-1/2 unrefined coconut oil (no real reason, just experimenting), made organic sprouted oats flour in the Blendtec. Then after mixing my dry ingredients in a separate bowl I decided to mix everything in the Blendtec–wet ingredients first then added the dry. Batter was thick so I then decided to make WAFFLES. They were perfect!

    Reply
    • Tabitha S. says

      June 5, 2021 at 10:54 am

      5 stars
      Thank you for the GF recipe. It made a wonderful breakfast for my family of 4. I had 2 boxes of oatmeal baby cereal left over from the baby. So I used 1 cup oatmeal baby cereal and 1 cup regular oat flour. It worked! I also used apple sauce in place of the oil and used pumpkin spice in place of the cinnamon. It was a big hit with everyone!

      Reply
  5. Joan says

    April 26, 2021 at 6:27 pm

    4 stars
    Very good pancakes. I plan to make this recipe again.

    Reply
  6. Tabitha says

    April 17, 2021 at 4:31 pm

    Looks like a great recipe… wondering if you could use normal milk instead of coconut milk…? Trying it out tomorrow though!

    Reply
    • Annemarie says

      April 17, 2021 at 6:37 pm

      Yes, any milk will be fine. Enjoy!

      Reply
  7. ModChef says

    April 4, 2021 at 8:47 am

    You don’t add eggs and milk to an otherwise healthy pancake recipe! Baking powder easily replaces eggs, and almond milk or better option for creamier batter, soy milk will be superior to cows milk or coconut milk!

    Reply
    • Annemarie says

      April 4, 2021 at 8:56 am

      Feel free to modify the recipe as desired.

      Reply
      • Mike says

        April 11, 2021 at 9:02 am

        5 stars
        Excellent recipe! Thank you for posting! My 4 year old and 18 year old loved it!

  8. Paula says

    March 24, 2021 at 5:30 pm

    5 stars
    These were SO good! I was out of vanilla extract so swapped for almond extract. This will be my go to for pancakes!

    Reply
  9. Coriander says

    March 1, 2021 at 7:16 pm

    5 stars
    This recipe made great pancakes, thanks! I thinned the batter slightly with extra coconut milk.

    Reply
  10. Audrey says

    August 23, 2020 at 9:45 am

    Making these today. Will alter a bit to make them waffles as we are a waffle family. I am a mother of 5 and grandmother of 14 and we have several members with different types of autoimmune issues. I’m always searching for new recipes that I can use or tweak to work for us. Thanks for the recipe

    Reply
    • Annemarie says

      August 23, 2020 at 10:23 am

      Great idea! Let me know how it turns out in waffle form.

      Reply
  11. Sandy says

    July 3, 2020 at 12:45 pm

    5 stars
    I love the hint of coconut!! De-lish!

    Reply
  12. Caroline Lafferty Smith says

    May 3, 2020 at 7:46 am

    5 stars
    I have been using alternative flours and thought it would be fun to make my own oat flours and this recipe fit the bill. I cut it in half because there are just two of us and it was a little runny (due to my haphazard calculations) and I didn’t feel like milling more pay flour, so added a wee bit of coconut flour to help absorb the liquid. Added some Greek yogurt and homemade blueberry syrup on top ❤️

    Reply
  13. donald meyer says

    May 1, 2020 at 6:06 am

    Thank you for posting this I just learned I could make oat flour and been on a Beng cooking with it since but this is by far my second best recipe I’ve used. My first was replaced the flour with oat flour in my favorite banana bread I used a little more baking powder and baking soda and took 1 egg and fluffed the white before combined and baked but that and this is now my two most favs for breakfast or snack. I also use a little piggy in a blanket silicone mold and place a little bacon or sausage in the piggy and top with a little more batter and they are amazing and easy on the go breakfast.

    Thanks again, and happy baking ?

    Reply
  14. Carol says

    July 10, 2019 at 11:56 am

    I’m allergic to coconut anything. What can I substitute?

    Reply
    • Annemarie says

      July 10, 2019 at 2:40 pm

      Carol, any kind of milk will do, and you could use melted butter or avocado oil in place of the coconut oil.

      Reply
  15. Taylor M. says

    July 7, 2019 at 4:48 pm

    What is one serving? Like how many pancakes is one serving? How big are the pancakes?

    Reply
    • Annemarie says

      July 7, 2019 at 4:57 pm

      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.

      Reply
  16. Kim says

    June 28, 2019 at 3:39 am

    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?

    Reply
    • Annemarie says

      June 28, 2019 at 8:35 am

      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!

      Reply
  17. Bridget says

    May 6, 2019 at 8:05 pm

    5 stars
    These pancakes turned out really great^^, thank you for sharing this.

    Reply
  18. Laura Duffy says

    February 24, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    5 stars
    What a delicious way to use oat flour! I bet it makes fantastic pancakes ?

    Reply
  19. Anne Lawton says

    February 24, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    5 stars
    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!

    Reply
    • Kerly says

      October 22, 2019 at 11:21 am

      Can I use something other than baking powder or ommit it all together ?

      Reply
      • Annemarie says

        October 22, 2019 at 11:42 am

        You could try it without the baking powder, but the pancakes will be a bit more dense. You may want to add an extra egg to improve the rise of the batter.

  20. STACEY CRAWFORD says

    February 24, 2019 at 11:32 am

    5 stars
    Wow, these are so fluffy and delicious! I love the flavor or oat flour with cinnamon!

    Reply
  21. Kari - Get Inspired Everyday! says

    February 23, 2019 at 5:57 pm

    5 stars
    These are what I call weekend perfection, nothing like a stack of fluffy pancakes on Saturday morning!

    Reply
  22. ChihYu says

    February 22, 2019 at 10:12 pm

    5 stars
    They are so fluffy delicious! Totally love it!

    Reply
  23. Hope says

    February 20, 2019 at 6:17 pm

    5 stars
    These look like a great way to start the day!

    Reply
  24. Raia Todd says

    February 20, 2019 at 1:47 pm

    5 stars
    Love easy recipes like this. I might have to double it and try it out on my family. 🙂

    Reply
  25. Sara says

    February 19, 2019 at 5:35 pm

    Love the use of oat flour and love making your own oat flour even more!

    Reply
  26. Leslie says

    February 19, 2019 at 2:29 pm

    5 stars
    Awesome recipe! I often use oat flour for gluten-free pancakes for my kiddos! I’ll have to try your recipe this weekend!

    Reply
  27. jennifer says

    February 19, 2019 at 8:43 am

    5 stars
    Always looking for a new pancake recipe and especially one I can share with gluten-free family members! these look so yummy

    Reply
  28. paleoglutenfreeguy says

    February 18, 2019 at 10:40 pm

    5 stars
    Those look so toasty and fluffy! I want that whole stack right now. 😉

    Reply
  29. Tessa Simpson says

    February 18, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    5 stars
    I love the touch of cinnamon!! So simple and straight forward, a perfect way to a hearty start!

    Reply
  30. Joni Gomes says

    February 18, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    5 stars
    Oat pancakes are my favorite kind! Will try out your recipe!

    Reply
  31. Zuzana says

    February 18, 2019 at 12:34 pm

    5 stars
    This looks really easy to make

    Reply
  32. Cheryl Malik says

    February 18, 2019 at 11:00 am

    5 stars
    These look SO fluffy!

    Reply

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