How to make healthy flourless pancakes at home, with just 3 ingredients, no gluten, no dairy, and no refined sugar in the recipe.
3 Ingredient Flourless Pancakes
Although the idea for 3 ingredient flourless pancakes has been going around the internet for a few years, every recipe I’ve ever seen has always included an egg as one of the three ingredients.
In trying to think of something for the eggs, I listed all of my favorite egg substitutes.
Banana was especially intriguing to me because it not only could replace the egg as a binder but also would add potassium and give the pancakes some natural sweetness.
I didn’t know how it would turn out, but I was excited to experiment.
My favorite recipes are the ones where you look at the ingredients and think, “There is absolutely no way this could possibly work!”
Two examples on my blog of these types of recipes are the Avocado Smoothie Recipe or my chocolate Almond Butter Brownies.
You go into it expecting the recipe to be a big fat flop, then you’re completely shocked and thrilled when it actually turns out exactly the way the directions said it would!
These 3 ingredient flourless pancakes definitely fit into that category.
One banana, 1/2 cup oats, 3 1/2 tbsp milk of choice, and that’s all you need to make pancakes.
Who knew?!?!
Top the pancakes with maple syrup or fresh berries and Coconut Whipped Cream.
I’m sure someone will ask about a substitute for the banana: I haven’t tried anything and therefore really can’t tell you if something else will work here.
(Edit: sweet potato works!)
If anyone wants to experiment with applesauce or pumpkin or nondairy yogurt or anything else you can think of, I’d definitely love to hear the results of those experiments.
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Also be sure to try these Applesauce Muffins.
Flourless Pancakes – 3 Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup rolled oats (Or make these Keto Pancakes)
- 1 medium banana (90g peeled), or mashed sweet potato
- 3 1/2 tbsp milk of choice
- pinch salt, and sweetener of choice as desired
- cinnamon and chocolate chips if desired
Instructions
- *If using a liquid sweetener, cut back on the milk by the amount of sweetener you use. And if you don't have a hand blender, either double or triple the recipe for a regular blender OR use scant 1/2 cup oat flour instead of the rolled oats and mash the banana by hand.The Recipe: Grease a skillet VERY well so the pancakes won't start to stick before they're flip-able. Combine all ingredients with a hand blender, then pour ladles of batter onto the greased skillet. As soon as the pancakes are cooked enough that you can get a pancake flipper underneath without breaking the pancakes, flip and cook an additional minute. The recipe makes 6-7 small pancakes (size of the ones in the photos). If you make a larger batch, leftovers can be refrigerated or frozen.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
And the promised photos from my appearance on the Dr. Oz Show:
If interested in the recipes highlighted on the show, they can be found at the following links:
(For the chocolate spoons that were featured on the show, simply dip spoons in melted chocolate, sprinkle on desired toppings, and refrigerate or freeze until the chocolate sets.)
Apparently I really, really like talking with my hands.
Aaaaaaaaand… this is probably why I’m getting wrinkles.
#overexpressiveface😛
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Vegan Katie,
Shame on you for having Chick-Fil-A advertise on your site!!!!!
These are really good tossed into the waffle maker, too!
Just tried theseand they are delicious! !! I drizzled mine with honey and lemon 🙂
I love this recipe, best pancakes ever!!! Thank u very much!!! You make me so happy
I can’t stop making these for breakfast – they are so delicious! I have made them several times as pancakes, but I’ve also put the batter in my waffle iron and they turned out great.
I am so addicted to these! I use almond milk, and I add vanilla extract, almond extract, and cinnamon. I also put the batter in my waffle iron. When they’re done, I add berries! I love them so much! Thank you so much for this recipe!
These pancakes were amazing!!! We added some chocolate protein powder but followed the recipe exactly!! We love pancakes but stopped having then because we’re trying to go “healthier”.
Thank you for this! I shared it with my whole fan!!! Ahhh
I would like to try these with applesauce in place of the banana. What would the measurment for applesauce be? 1/4 cup or 1/2 cup maybe? Thank you!!
Made these with a vanilla almond milk, I like them sweeter- but that’s a me thing. Retrying to be vegetarian (ran into some serious roadblocks a few years ago, like becoming malnourished since I was just a teenager that didn’t have the time or skill to cook three meals for myself a day) and since I have low blood sugar, replacing flour with oats is great for me. I’ll probably be making a huge batch of these and freezing them for fast meals before school when I don’t have time for soup. Awesome recipe!
Just enjoyed these for breakfast! I’ve recently switched to vegan and used to make “protein” pancakes with eggs all the time. I as looking for the same nutritional benefit… so I slightly altered the recipe to include 1/2 scoop of Vega Nutritional Protein Powder and 2tsp of Chia/Flax. I added 1 and 1/2 banana, 3/4 cup oats and 4tbsp soy milk. Made 4 Medium sized thick pancakes. They turned out amazing! Very hearty as well. This will be my new go-to. Thank you Katie!!