Apple pancakes with oats – healthy & simple breakfast

Simple And Healthy Apple Pancakes With Oats

Now these apple pancakes, they’re a reliable. Considering we hated apples for the longest time, and that we've said this for probably every pancake recipe we've ever made – this is a bold statement. And yet here we are.

We actually made these a long time ago, like beginning of summer, but with summer and all the fresh produce, we made so many other recipes, that we just let this one wait for its season…and now bam, here it is.

Just like fall is. No joke, 2 days ago we went to the beach for probably the last time this year and the weather, the water was solid. We were swimming, we were happy and didn’t have a single care! We're one of those people who love being in the water. Loves it. If our skin doesn’t get as wrinkly as a newborn Benjamin Button and our lips don’t turn as blue as an avatar, why did we even go to the beach in the first place? Not enough time in the water.

So now it’s like cold. Our lips can turn blue even without going into water. We're a little nostalgic that summer is gone, but also excited for the change and for more of these satisfying healthy pancakes with apples and oats!

How it comes together

As always, these pancakes are flourless and you’ll need to grind oats to get the benefits of all their cholesterol-lowering fiber and unique antioxidants called avenanthramides.

Then you add an egg, apple, coconut oil, honey, baking soda and spices – pulse everything in your food processor and add some chopped walnuts to the batter in the end.

Then you make the pancakes in an oiled pan, flip when they’re golden brown on one side and take out when they’re brown on the other side as well. We made smaller pancakes because we wanted to feel taller, but also because we're worried they might fall apart if they’re bigger – this happens to us with every single bigger pancake we make, so we stick to small(er) pancakes.

Top with fruit, honey, extra nuts and enjoy! We only had frozen berries at home, so this is what we used. Other than that we would imagine that whipped coconut cream would go well here. But hey, that’s just us food dreaming right now.

apple pancakes before

Update, Dec. 2019

So many of you loved these pancakes, we had to make them again. And so we did. We made these pancakes again a while after sharing the recipe and they are notable – sweet with just the right amount of spice. The only thing we didn’t quite like was the texture when using the food processor. Somehow the mixture never got smooth enough and the pancakes turned out chunky. So we experimented some more. We made the same recipe, added a Tbsp of yogurt and blended the whole thing with a hand blender.

OMG. So much fluffier! Same flavor, same taste, but the texture was solid. And we don’t know about you, but texture is important to us.

If you live dairy-free, feel free to not use yogurt in this recipe – it will make a minor difference, yet we like ours better with it.

So we updated the recipe with additional tips, we even made a video, because now we're kinda obsessed with making videos and added new photos. Not because the new photos are better, it’s like saying one of your children is better looking than the other one. You might think it, but you’d never say it.

We didn’t have fresh berries as we were making these, because hello – it’s December and berries don’t grow on bushes now. So we used some blueberries we froze back in July. Still alive even after eating those.

This recipe was originally published in September 2018 and updated with new images and tips in December 2019.

• Yield: 8 pancakes
• Prep: 5 minutes
• Cook: 10 minutes
• Total: 20 minutes

Ingredients

For The Pancakes

• 1 egg
• 1 apple
• 2 tbsp honey
• 1 Tbsp coconut oil, melted
• 1/2 cup oats, ground
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/3 tsp nutmeg (very little)
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 tbsp yogurt
• 1 tbsp chopped walnuts or almonds

Additionally

• coconut oil for cooking
• fruit for topping (optional)
• honey for topping (optional)
• nuts for topping (optional)
• yogurt or whipped cream (optional)

Method

1. Slice the apple and blend it with the rest of the wet ingredients (eggs, honey, melted coconut oil) using a hand blender or a blender (food processor will yield a chunkier mixture). You can probably also use apple sauce, around 1/3 cup - if it's 100% apples.
2. Add in all dry ingredients, except the chopped nuts - ground oats, spices, baking soda. Blend again until combined. Then mix in the nuts without blending.
3. Cover the surface of a non-stick pan with coconut oil. At medium to medium-high heat, using a spoon, pour the mixture forming palm-sized pancakes (we used a small pan, made 3-4 pancakes per batch).
4. Cook until bubbles come up on the surface and the mixture is not liquid (about a minute), then flip and cook for 30s-1min. Put on a plate and repeat for another batch.
5. Top with your favorite toppings and enjoy!

Notes

If you're living dairy-free, feel free to live out the yogurt like the original recipe suggested. We highly recommend blending the ingredients to get a fluffy and smooth texture for the pancakes.