Banana oatmeal pancakes, vegan

Vegan Banana Oatmeal Pancakes, aka a healthy breakfast in pancake form…

Last week we decided to play scientist again, much like those glorious days when we were actually contaminating cell cultures in the lab and ruining the results for everyone. This time instead of pretending to know how to properly use a pipette, we decided to make oatmeal banana pancakes.

Now, we already have quite a few oatmeal pancake recipes on the blog, like these banana strawberry pancakes, these notable apple pancakes or these chocolate chip pancakes. But we never, ever have made vegan pancakes.

Oh, we said that wrong. We made vegan pancakes, but they were never actually successful. We always tried adding flax or chia seeds and just wasn’t loving them at all.

Since we started doing the 7-day vegan challenge on Friday, on Saturday we decided to make vegan pancakes with oatmeal and no flour. Well, good luck!

We used no flax egg, no chia egg and instead decided to make banana play two roles here: the role of banana and an egg to bind the whole thing together.

Not gonna lie to you, these pancakes are a little softer and moister on the inside than our other recipes that actually use an egg, but they taste good nonetheless.

So if you’re doing the challenge, are plant-based or just want to eat pancakes with no egg in them – these might be your thing.

Banana Oatmeal Pancake Ingredients

So we’re not using an egg, we’re not using flour…What are we using? Air? Close. Here’s what’s in these oatmeal pancakes:

Banana. Any type of banana. Small, big, ripe, old and disgusting, one that smells like a shot of vodka – anything will do in this recipe.

Oats. You need no flour in these pancakes, we’re using oats (as always). That’s regular oats.

Vanilla or Cinnamon to add more flavor. Or both.

Nuts. Use almonds or walnuts in the batter for some crunch!

Almond milk and coconut oil. You can basically use any non-dairy milk in this batter.

How it comes together

• Use a food processor or a hand blender to blend the banana, oats and almond milk into something that looks like a batter
• Add some chopped nuts to that batter
• Cook in a non-stick pan until golden-brown on each side.
• Top with your favorite toppings and enjoy!

Now this is the way you make them if you’re in a hurry and don’t want to impress too much. If you want to impress everyone, including yourself do this: When the pancakes are cooking in the pan on the one side, top the other one with a slice or two of banana. Then flip them and cook on the other side as well.

We don’t know why we thought this was exciting, but at least now you know we're simple to impress, so surprise us.

Toppings

These pancakes are good on their own, but adding some healthy toppings can make them even more enjoyable. Here are some options:

• almond or peanut butter
• fresh fruit
• whipped coconut cream
• maple syrup (if not sweet enough)

Our choice was almond butter and some frozen raspberries. We love the combination of berries and nuts, so this was pretty much solid.