I used to eat porridge for breakfast every day but I got really, really bored with it. My mum says it’s very healthy, so instead of just ordinary porridge we now make lots of oat-based cakes, cereal-bars, cookies, muffins and bread-rolls. I like makingbanana and oat cookieswhich are really easy but need to be baked in the oven. So I thought, why don’t we fry the batter like a pancake or drop-scone instead?

My oaty banana pancakes turned out to be very successful and really tasty! They’re super easy to make – just mix a banana with some oats & egg and that’s it really. These flourless pancakes are dairy-free,  gluten-free and sugar-free too! So they are very, very healthy actually. And yummy!

You’ll need:

• 1 ripe banana
•  About half a cup of oats (gluten-free)
• ¼ tsp cinnamon powder (optional)
• ¼ tsp baking powder
• 1 large egg

How to make the oaty banana pancakes:

1. Mash the banana with a fork in a medium sized bowl.
2. In another, smallish, bowl gently whisk the egg then add the cinnamon and baking powder.
3. Stir the egg mixture in with the banana. Add enough oats to have a thick batter –  it should be thicker than normal pancake batter.
4. Heat a little oil in a pancake pan. When it’s hot, ask an adult to wipe away any excess oil with a paper towel. Turn down the heat and add large dollops of the batter (one per pancake) and spread them out with the spoon, making  flat circular cookie shapes – 3 or 4 pancakes should fit in the frying pan.
5. When the surface of the pancakes has set, flip them over and cook for another minute.
6. Make another batch. You should get about 6-8 pancakes from the mixture.
7. Eat them warm or luke-warm.

Tips

• These pancakes are perfect for breakfast or snacks during the day.
• You can serve them with maple syrup, honey, jam or fruit  purée.  I like mine dusted with cinnamon and served with mango or more sliced banana.
• You can add some chopped nuts &/or dried fruits to the pancake batter if you like – next time I’ll try making them with cocoa powder and chocolate chips!

If you’d also like to try some yummy oaty cakes and cookies here are my favorite recipes:

• Oat and banana slice
• Banana and oat muffins
• Carrot and oat cake
• Healthy banana and oat cookies
• Oaty banana bread (gluten-free)
• Oaty apricot cookies
• Oaty ginger cake
• Carrot and oat muffins