Easy Oatmeal Pancakes in the Blender

Easy Oatmeal Pancakes in a Blender

#LifeIsNOYOKE has a pretty good oatmeal pancake recipe.    This is just one of many good recipes Lenny and Shalva have on their channel.

Put all ingredients in a blender jar and blend them up.

1 1/2 cups oatmeal (I used old-fashioned)
1 ripe banana
1/2 cup almond milk
1/4 cup aquafaba (this is the liquid you get when you drain a can of chick peas.  It has lots of interesting uses so don't throw it away.  Just put it in a glass jar in the refrigerator.)
1 pitted date
1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Heat a heavy skillet over medium heat. I used our cast iron skillet.  When the pan is hot, give it a quick spray of vegetable oil.  Did I say to make sure the pan is HOT?  You just do not have a good result with pancakes unless the pan in hot when you put in the batter. At least, that is my experience.

When hot, and lightly misted with oil, put pancake batter on the pan in 1/4 cup blobs.   Spread it out a bit with a spoon and let it cook until there are little bubbles and the bottom seems to be browning.

Flip over and let cook another minute or two.  The next flip is onto your plate.

Serve with your favorite topping.  We used maple syrup one day but raspberry syrup the first time because we did not at that point have maple syrup. Pancakes are really better with actual from-maple-trees maple syrup.

We will make these again.  Especially until we get some more sourdough made. 

We had an accident with a glass that shattered on the counter and (apparently!) some of the dust got into the lightly covered sourdough container.  When I made another batch of this time REALLY GOOD sourdough bread/rolls (I let them rise 7 1/2 hours), we each found a little bit of grit in them.  That made me think it was glass shards so we dumped the sourdough and the remaining rolls just in case.  The thought of chewing glass rather turned my stomach.  If such a thing is possible.

Probably we will start more sourdough in a day or two.  The rolls seemed to have a good effect on blood sugar.  Maybe there really is something to the suggestion that sprouted wheat flour bread is better for us.  And not that hard to do.

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