A normal pancake recipe consists of all purpose flour, some baking soda, eggs, milk, and butter. Because of the ingredients regular pancakes are not thought of as being necessarily healthy, but you can make them that way. Instead of making carbohydrate laden, no nutrient pancakes consider making an oatmeal pancake recipe. This gives your body a boost of fiber making the pancakes much more nutritious and there is an added bonus. They taste good too.

The Swedish people had it right when they started to make oatmeal pancakes ions ago. They keep it healthy by topping their oatmeal pancakes with either fruit or jelly. Applesauce is another really good idea to try as a topping especially if there is some cinnamon in it. You can put syrup on but be careful how much you use.

Never use microwave oatmeal when you try to make Oatmeal pancakes. Do not use Quick Oats either. The kind you want to purchase for use in pancakes is the old fashion slow cooking oats or you can purchase organic oatmeal which works fine too.

Easy oatmeal pancakes can be made by combining one and one half cup of rolled oats with two cups of milk in a large bowl. Let this sit for about 10 minutes and continue. In a separate bowl combine one half cup whole wheat flour, one half cup all purpose flour, one tablespoon baking powder, one tablespoon brown sugar, one fourth teaspoon salt, and one half teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Mix this well with a whisk but be careful not to whisk so hard it flies out of the bowl.

In a small bowl you want to whisk 2 eggs until they are beaten and throw them in with the milk and oatmeal mixture that has been set aside. Also add to this mixture one fourth of a cup of melted butter. Add one teaspoon vanilla as the last ingredient. Mix that all together and add the flour mixture gradually so that everything is all incorporated and it looks like pancake batter.

Place a skillet on the stove and get it hot or use an electric griddle making sure it is hot. Add just a little bit of vegetable oil or butter and scoop out about 1 fourth cup of the batter placing it on the hot surface. Bubbles will start to form around the edge of the pancake and once there is a steady circle of bubbles you can flip your pancake over. The one side should be brown and once the other side gets that way and the inside looks nice and fluffy you can remove the pancake to a plate. You can put a pat of butter on top and syrup or just put the jam, fresh fruit, or some applesauce on top.

A homemade syrup can be made to go along with your oatmeal pancakes and that is an orange syrup. This is really easy to make and will taste divine with the pancakes. In a medium saucepan place one half cup of sugar, one fourth cup orange juice, one fourth cup butter, and one fourth cup light corn syrup. Whisk this all together and heat until it starts to boil. Remove from heat and let cool about 5 minutes and serve over the pancakes. This is not the healthiest topping in the world for an oatmeal pancake recipe but if you want to splurge just once give it a try.

Ben loves pancakes and this oatmeal pancake recipe is just one of the many recipes that you will find on his website. If you like eating healthy you can also try this low calorie pancake recipe, then again – there are plenty of other recipes to choose from!

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