Oatmeal Banana Pancakes

I have found yet another recipe that uses bananas and oats. I always have these two food items in my house so I constantly try to find new recipes that use bananas when mine are getting too ripe to eat. If you read my post "Banana Pancakes", this recipe is similar to that recipe, but ramped up! I don't typically eat pancakes for breakfast, or any other time really, but this recipe caught my eye-particularly because of the banana and oats part-and because it just sounded so good! These have peanut butter and chocolate chips in them, including oats and flour, but no added sugar! These pancakes get most their flavor from the banana and the peanut butter...YUM!! I cut this recipe in half, so this is based on making 5-6 pancakes in a batch. Please enjoy!

 

Oatmeal Banana Pancakes

Ingredients

• 1 ripe banana
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 egg
• pinch of salt
• approx. 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp peanut butter (I used my favorite, Better n Peanut Butter, from trader joe's)
• 1.5 tsp canola oil (I used vegetable oil)
• 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp milk of your choice (I used nonfat)
• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips, optional (I used 2 tbsp of mini chocolate chips)

Directions

1. Preheat a greased skillet over medium heat.
2. Mash banana with the baking powder first.
3. Then add the egg, salt, oil, vanilla, peanut butter, and milk, and stir/mix it all together.
4. Stir in the oats and flour until its just combined.
5. If using, stir in chocolate chips gently.
6. Drop small scoops onto your skillet, flip, serve, enjoy!

 

Nutritional Value for the entire batch:

• Calories: 738.5
• Fat: 16.7 grams
• Fiber: 7.9 grams
• Sugar: 19.2 grams
• Protein: 20.5 grams

*This is based on the ingredients I used. Adjust for different ingredients.

 

*One pancake comes out to be 123 calories*

 

 

 

I found these to be very good! I loved how much I could taste the peanut butter, which is one of my favorite things in the world! Play around with other ingredients to add to this pancake mix. Almonds, blueberries, craisins, coconut, pecans...  I hope you give this recipe a try if you're looking for something different to do with pancakes!  Have a wonderful day :)