As I was looking for new recipes to try and I really wanted something that would replace my high-carb breakfast tendencies. I absolutely love bananas, and eat at least one banana a day, and have been trying to use oats and healthier flours in my foods so when I came across this recipe I knew I wanted to try it.
I take absolutely no credit for this recipe at all but I am pretty proud of myself for making it and it turned out pretty well so I will definitely be making it again.
The recipe calls for milk or buttermilk, which I replaced with almond milk one because it was the only milk in my fridge and two because I like the simple taste of unsweetened almond milk and it's pretty healthy. Everything else I had in my kitchen so that was the only thing about the ingredients that I changed.
The recipe is also one for waffles, but being that I don't have a waffle maker, I decided to use the batter for making pancakes instead. I read online that it's fine to do this.
So I mixed the oats, whole wheat flour, banana, eggs, applesauce, almond milk and a few other ingredients together and it came out looking like this:
It was a pretty thick mixture and there was a lot of it, so I was pretty content because I knew if I burned any or screwed anything up I had a lot of chances.
The first one came out almost perfectly, so I was getting excited and a bit greedy, but all of the ones after that started to look more burned. I lowered the heat and thought this would help but they still came out darker than I expected. I was also worried because the inside didn't seem cooked, but after looking back on the recipe it said that they would be moist, which makes sense because the banana chunks don't really "cook" like regular pancake mix.
I thought the oil might have been the problem, so I cleaned the pan and tried again and they were still kind of burning so I gave up. They still tasted great though, even though they were darker, so I don't think it is actually as big a problem as I thought it was. I just like things to look pretty.
I topped them off with some blueberries, and this recipe made me 8 pretty decent sized pancakes. I shared them with my roomie and saved the rest so it does a good 4 servings. I also put the recipe into the app "My Fitness Pal" which I use religiously, and it said each serving of 2 pancakes was about 300 calories. Now, I don't know how accurate this is but I'm assuming it's close!
I'd say that's a good breakfast. It kept me full and satisfied and it was sooo tasty! I am definitely doing this one again. It's nice to know it's whole wheat and I know everything that I put into the mix. I'm feeling pretty happy about this recipe!
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