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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Hi Katie,
I want to start making these as part of meal prep for breakfast, say around every 3 days or so. Do they reheat ok? Thanks!
You can probably freeze. Most pancakes freeze well.
I’m eating these right now, yum ?
hmmmm, I’m going to have to try this. I usually make them with a banana and an egg. All I have is vanilla flavored almond milk, hoping that works too! As to the other foolishness…ignore it, this is a blog with deliciousness and that is all we should focus on. Katie responded to the offender with class and we should all leave it there and stop shining a light on it.
Hi! In the nutritional facts, is the number of calories for the whole bunch of pancakes or just one pancake? Maybe I’ve missed something, but I couldn’t seen to find out 🙂
Thank you in advance!!
Would there be any way to make this without oats, or flour? My partner is following a strict elimination diet and can eat no starches, grains, legumes and so on… basically just fruit and veg and coconut milk!!
Jen, perhaps almond flour/meal? I haven’t tried it yet but will next time.
Hi , what can I use instead of milk?
Well it depends on why you are wanting to substitute the milk… If it’s because of a dairy allergy or you don’t want to use dairy milk, Katie’s site is actually vegan and “milk of choice” means whatever nondairy milk you wish to use, such as almond or soy or even coconutmilk.
I had to edit the recipe because I messed up the original. Yes I know three ingredients how could you possibly mess that up? Very easily, if you’re me! But to my surprise my modifications made them good. Someone suggested to blend the oats, so I blended 1/2 cup, other half left raw, addded 2 tbsp of PB, added 2/3 cup gf pancake mix, and some vegan protein powder and pecans. My first batch my husband said they were to wet in the middle. The second modified pancakes were perfect texture. They were very hearty! I love your recipes! Your recipes make up a lot of what’s in my recipe app.
Wow! This was amazing! I’ll definitely be making these again! So filling and tastes like a pancake. My son even loved it and was asking for more. Thank you for a delicious, healthy alternative pancake!
This recipe is nice but faults information on the servings it yealds. I just made this today, followed recipe to the letter & I would like for you to be honest in saying what size each of the 6-7 pancakes you squeeze out of this recipe? Your recipe only produced 3 pancakes smaller thn coasters. One has to dbl up on your recipe to get the 6-7 you state.
I rarely eat pancakes because it seems too much like eating dessert for breakfast. I wasn’t expecting much when I tried these but they were delightful! They only took a couple minutes to make and cook and had lovely crispy edges like I like my pancakes to have. Will make these again for sure!