Fluffy and delicious Whole Grain Pancakes served with sweet almond butter sauce makes any morning extra special.
It's Monday and it's time to start a new week of non-stop blogging. This week I am going to 'Explore the flavors' of Whole Grains. So to start off, I have some fluffy whole grain pancakes that are hearty yet light and delicious. These are served with creamy and sweet almond butter sauce making them extra special.
My kids love pancakes and can have them every day single da, if I let them. No wonder, I have about pancake posts on the blog. But I always end up looking for new and improved pancake recipes. So when I saw this fluffy pancakes recipe in Cooking Light magazine, I knew I had to give it a try.
Old fashioned rolled oats and whole wheat flour are used to make these whole grain pancakes. Oats are soaked in buttermilk for a few minutes to soften them which helps to create a creamy interior texture. These pancakes are hearty with the addition of whole wheat flour and oats. But they are also fluffy and light.
Also these pancakes are served with creamy and nutty almond butter sauce instead of dousing them with regular syrup.This cuts about 78% of added sugars from the typical pancake breakfast making it a much smarter choice. This almond sauce is great to serve with fruits too.
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Fluffy Whole Grain Pancakes
Ingredients
For the Pancakes:
- ⅔ cup Rolled Oats
- 11/3 cups Buttermilk (nonfat is fine)
- ¾ cup Wholewheat flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 Large Egg, lightly beaten (sub with 1tbsp egg replacer whisked in 3tbsp water)
For the Almond butter Sauce:
- ¼ cup almond butter
- ¼ cup Warm Water
- 1½ tbsp maple syrup
Instructions
Make Almond-maple Syrup:
- Combine almond butter, maple syrup and warm water in a small bowl. Whisk until a smooth sauce forms.
Make Pancakes:
- Combine oats and buttermilk in a large bowl and set aside for 10 minutes.
- Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl.
- Stir maple syrup, vanilla extract, egg into the oat mixture. Stir in the flour mixture and mix until until just combined.
- Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium flame; spoon ¼cup of batter per pancake onto the skillet. Cook until the tops are covered with bubbles and edges look dry and cooked, about 2~3 minutes; flip and cook for another 1~2 minutes. Serve with almond butter sauce and fruit.
Priya Suresh
Fluffy pancakes with nutty almond butter sauce, watelse we need to kick start a day. That stack of pancakes is definitely a real torture for pancake lovers like me. Simply irresistible.
Sandhiya
Wow, Such a healthy pancakes with whole grains !!! It looks so soft and fluffy. Love the sauce too. Great start to the whole grain recipes !!!
Srividhya Gopalakrishnan
Pancakes with almond butter sauce sound delicious. It's amazing how much percent it cuts on the sugar. Very nice. Bookmarked to try the almond butter sauce.
Vaishali
Wow these pancakes look amazing..specially with that butter. I wish there were kids in my house, with all grown ups, I hardly get a chance to cook these pancakes..or things which are kid friendly. Excellent pancakes, with flavorful butter and those berries. Picture perfect..healthy morning breakfast !
Gayathri Kumar
These whole grain pancakes look so soft and fluffy. The almond butter sauce sounds so good. I won't mind having this for my breakfast..
Harini
OMG! that is such a brilliant idea to add buttermilk soaked oats. I am so going to try this version.
Sharmila - The Happie Friends Potpourri Corner
Perfect breakfast pancakes ,buttermilk always does the magic in the pancakes and i can clearly see it!!
Priya Srinivasan
Wow pavani , fluffy pancakes, and that sauce looks interesting!!! softening oats with buttermilk is another fab idea!! perfect breakfast !
kalyani
uff ! too much goodness in a plate ! Oats soaked in buttermilk is a lovely tip 🙂 thanks !
Srivalli
Wow yet another pancake! I have so many of your pancakes bookmarked and you still go on making new versions..these pancakes look so fluffy!
Mayuri Patel
I often make wholewheat and oat pancakes for my daughter whenever I go to visit her as she loves them. I love the creamy almond butter. Makes me want to grab the pancakes.
Manjula Bharath
Omg gorgeous captures !! those pancakes with oats and buttermilk look so fluffy and spongy, almond butter to top these sounds like a scrumptious combo 🙂 As this has just one egg I would love to skip and try them ..
Sandhya Ramakrishnan
Pavani, I am with you. My kids would eat pancake every single day as well. This is a great whole grain pancake to make and that almond butter sauce is just delicious. I am going to grind my own almond butter next time I go my local grocery and try the sauce.
Suma Gandlur
Those whole grain pancakes are really fluffy and that almond butter sauce sounds really fantastic.
Padmajha PJ
The first thing that caught my attention was those berries in the bowl. Really wish we could get these here. And these pancakes are something my kids will love to have. My lil one might want a chocolate flavored one though 🙂
preeti garg
Very healthy pancakes. looks so fluffy and moist
preeti garg
Very healthy pancakes. looks so fluffy and moist.. love it