I decided to make an old recipe last night: an oatmeal pancake!! I used to eat these probably every third day or so. What happened!? (If you click the recipe page above, you’ll find the video too – me almost 2 years ago!)
There are two reasons why I never make them anymore:
1) I only buy old fashioned rolled oats now and I used to always make them with quick oats. I used rolled oats today and it turned out fine [although I did soak them overnight]
2) I stopped buying egg whites in a carton when we started watching our budget much more closely. The pancakes do work with a whole egg but they are not as easy to make and light tasting. And I find it annoying to use real egg whites and have yolks that have to be either used somehow or thrown away, which is wasteful. Just makes me less likely to want to make one. [See this post for a time I used real egg and how the cakes just weren’t as pretty and were much more dense]
But since I had carton whites from my frosting, I assembled one last night:
- 1/3 cup oats
- 1/3 cup whites
- Cinnamon
- Vanilla
I added 1/3 tsp of baking powder this morning along with half a mashed banana and poured it onto a medium high skillet. It’s very liquidy at first, but the beauty of whites-only is that it forms a perfectly cooked edge in a few minutes….
Almost ready to flip! It’s all puffed up and bubbling. You know it’s time to flip when you can shake it in the pan and it moves
Flipped!
Served.
With the other half of my mashed banana, flax, some toasted walnuts, a drizzle of maple and NUTTZO!!! CRUNCH!
Plus spiced coffee going as Pacman for Halloween ("Bowl of cherries and ghost meat")
I was hoping this pancake would be a little less filling than oatmeal before YOGA but I was wrong – totally filling as a bowl of oats!!!
Amanda + Emily + I are off to Y2Yoga for a little hot flow!!! I’m SO excited.
Then it’s study study all.day.long. for metabolism. Proteins galore!
Food Makes Fun Fuel says
Yummy breakfast! I was in an apple crisp mood myself 🙂
Leianna says
I love your new/old creation of breakfast! Have a relaxing yoga session and study hard!
Megan (The Runner's Kitchen) says
Mmm, I am craving pancakes! Since it’s the day after Halloween I might have to put some white and dark chocolate chips in mine 🙂
brandi says
have fun at yoga!
I love those oatmeal pancakes with pb on top.
Allie (Live Laugh Eat) says
Haha I love how you always see images in your coffee–like clouds!! Good luck studying!
Diana says
That pancake looks so good! We don’t have cartons of egg whites here though and I really don’t wanna waste a yolk. :/ I’ll find a way, cause this sounds awesome.
Have a great day!
Jessica @ How Sweet It Is says
I also find it annoying to just ‘throw away’ the yolk. People always tell me it is only worth a couple cents, but I just can’t bring myself to do it!
maria says
Every time I’ve tried making pancakes, using oatmeal, it’s been a bad experience. Something always seems to happen leaving me with a permanently stuck pancake. No good.
Susan says
That looks so good! I usually make oatmeal/cottage cheese pancakes, but should try this one. I love the concept of making just one pancake and loading it up with toppings 🙂 Have fun at yoga!
Estela @ Weekly Bite says
I love oatmeal pancakes!! I used to eat them all the time!!
christie @ honoring health says
Yum, I haven’t had an oatmeal pancake in so long. I actually found your blog by searching for oatmeal pancakes almost two years ago!
Tou Tou's Little Creation Cafe says
I really that like that plate – and of cause the oat meal pancake too! I love that softness and tenderness when oats are soaked and cooked throughly:) so excited to find lots lots of oats recipes from your blog!! thanks!
eliza says
Delicious oatmeal pancake! i must try your recipe, looks great and super easy 🙂 love the toppings that nutzo nut butter looks and sounds amazing,
have a great Sunday Kath
xx
Eliza
kay (eating machine) says
oh pancakes sound so good right now…. too bad we still haven’t bought a fridge for our house so i’m lacking in things like eggs…
ciely says
Loved the video1
Have some oatmeal with your cinnamon. LOL
Katy @ These Beautiful Feet says
Mmmm those are some hearty pancakes..they look awesome! I will have to try that sometime! 🙂 Enjoy yoga, as I know you will! 🙂
Kat (Kat's Daily Plate) says
These looks great and its good to know they are as filling and hearty as oatmeal. I will have to try them one day this week!
Heather @ Health, Happiness, and Hope says
Perfect Sunday morning breakfast and a great tutorial! Enjoy your yoga session this morning! 🙂
Heather says
I have a carton of egg whites open in the fridge – I think I see an oatmeal pancake in my future!
Jenna says
oatmeal pancake! such a great idea 🙂
jenna
Maggie says
I did a cost analysis of buying the carton of egg whites vs. just using the whites from a dozen of eggs, and it was way way cheaper for me to just toss the yolks from real eggs. Not sure what prices are like where you are though 😛 I can get a dozen cage free eggs for about $3 or less (~1.5 cups of egg whites), but I have to pay $7 for a 2-cup container of cage free egg whites. I could probably get non-cage-free egg whites for relatively cheap (or at least the same as buying normal eggs and tossing yolks) but I like cage free 🙂
Anyway, yay for pancakes!
Deva (Voracious Vorilee) says
Love the cake! It looks fantastic! How was your halloween night? 🙂 I decided on a cinnamon sticky bun and yogurt with wheat and barley cereal stirred in 🙂
Kyla says
That looks delicious! I sympathize with you on the metabolism as I’m also studying to be a R.D. Good luck with the krebs cycle and all the Acetyl CoA’s and ATP.
Joelle (The Pancake Girl) says
Pancakes are ALWAYS good, in any form! Happy Sunday!
Hallie (Healthy Twists) says
I agree with Maggie (although I didn’t do the math). I know it’s kind of sad on one level to throw out the yolks, but it’s really so much cheaper than carton whites, and I guess it feels more “natural” to me to buy whole eggs and discard the yolk. The fact that for some reason they affect the consistency of the pancakes though, is kind of a bummer. Nice to see you bring back an old fave!
Jewel says
That looks great! We tried whole wheat pancakes this morning with banana and walnuts, but I think I would rather the oatmeal pancake.
In our house my son would just make unhealthy key lime pie with those yolks!
I wonder how they would do with a flax egg substituted for the egg whites..have you tried this?
Kath says
I have not tried a flax method, but my guess would be that it wouldn’t work all that well. There’s something magical about egg whites that keeps them from sticking.
K
Tay says
Mmmm love oatmeal pancakes! I used to make those all the time too. I especially like them with yogurt or pumpkin mixed in 🙂
lynn (The Actors Diet) says
my hubby and i love your oatmeal pancakes – we only have rolled oats in our home too so that’s what we’ve been using….it did turn out super watery (still delish though) so i will try your soaking overnight method next time.
Tricia says
you can cook up the yolks and toss them in your salads? that’s still a lot of yolk..
the pancake looks amazing, I may have to try that
Susana says
I love pancakes, and will have to try this recipe!! SO LIGHT!
Anyway, I was reading few days ago about ‘How to store leftover egg yolks and leftover egg whites’. We can actually freeze them and just put them to defrost on room temperature before using them. Here is the link on how to do it.
http://bakingbites.com/2008/03/how-to-store-leftover-egg-yolks-and-leftover-egg-whites/
Julia says
Hi Kath!
I found your website recently (google reader suggested it!) and love reading through all your recipes. This morning, in fact, I tried out the oatmeal pancakes and LOVED them. Anything with a mashed-up banana sounds good to me. I also threw in some pecans and a little pumpkin butter to make it festive for fall! Anyway, as a fellow grad student who is trying to live healthfully in addition to staying on top of ever increasing course loads, I love reading your blog and getting new food ideas.
Thanks so much for such a refreshing point of view!!
Julia
Kath says
Welcome Julia!
Kath