Oat Flour Pancakes
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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 when you’re making these oat flour pancakes.
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 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 any type of milk in these pancakes.
Try my chocolate oat pudding, steel cut oats cookies, and oat flour banana bread for other sneaky oatmeal recipes your family will love.
Oat Flour Pancakes
These oat flour pancakes are a healthy, gluten-free breakfast recipe.
$.42 per serving
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Servings: 4
Calories: 417kcal
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
Calories: 417kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Cholesterol: 82mg | Sodium: 480mg | Potassium: 442mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 119IU | Calcium: 160mg | 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 2020.
Isabella says
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 😊
Donna W. says
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!
Tabitha S. says
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!
Joan says
Very good pancakes. I plan to make this recipe again.
Tabitha says
Looks like a great recipe… wondering if you could use normal milk instead of coconut milk…? Trying it out tomorrow though!
Annemarie says
Yes, any milk will be fine. Enjoy!
ModChef says
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!
Annemarie says
Feel free to modify the recipe as desired.
Mike says
Excellent recipe! Thank you for posting! My 4 year old and 18 year old loved it!
Paula says
These were SO good! I was out of vanilla extract so swapped for almond extract. This will be my go to for pancakes!
Coriander says
This recipe made great pancakes, thanks! I thinned the batter slightly with extra coconut milk.
Audrey says
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
Annemarie says
Great idea! Let me know how it turns out in waffle form.
Sandy says
I love the hint of coconut!! De-lish!
Caroline Lafferty Smith says
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 ❤️