Whole Grain Pancake Recipe

This Whole Grain Pancake Recipe is from scratch friends.  Pancakes can be made quickly and easily without a store bought mix and they can be 100% Whole Grain and scrumptious  too!
And… as long as I don’t add fruit this whole grain pancake recipe passes the hubby test too!  Either he’s getting used to my cooking or my cooking is getting better.  Either way it’s a good thing!

I use organic ingredients whenever I can – the recipe will work either way of course.

My children love it when I use this whole grain pancake recipe as a base to make  apple cinnamon pancakes.  We’ll  sprinkled with a little powdered sugar – chosen by the children instead of maple syrup, so it would be just like their favorite restaurant.

Whole Grain Pancake Recipe Ingredients

1 2/3 cup Sifted Whole Grain Organic Pastry Flour (sifting optional)
1/3 cup of Oat Bran
2 tsp Organic Sugar
1 tsp Salt
1 1/2 tsp of Baking Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
2 Organic Free Range Eggs
1 3/4 Cups of  Organic “Butter” Milk (Almost 1 3/4 cups of Milk with 2 tbs of Lemon Juice or Vinegar – total liquid 1 3/4 cups)
1/4 Cup of Grapeseed Oil
1 – 2 Tbs Ground Flax Meal

Whole Grain Pancake Recipe Instructions

Tip: Sift Flour before measuring for lighter pancakes – not essential

Add the remaining Dry Ingredients and combine well
Beat your eggs and add to the wet ingredients.

Add 90% of your wet ingredients to your dry and mix until still a little lumpy. Add remaining liquid until you get to your favored consistency. The thinner the mix, the thinner the pancakes and the thicker mix will give you a thicker pancake.

Heat your cooking surface and prepare with a small amount of oil (I’m trying to move past the spray oils), a splash of water that dances will tell you the surface is ready.

I use a 1/4 cup measuring scoop for pouring my batter onto the fry pan.

If you want to add fruit – this is when I do it. I sprinkle it right on top of the poured mix. When there are plenty of bubbles – it’s time to flip.
Added diced white nectarines – yum!
Apple Cinnamon – Dice apples, sprinkle with cinnamon add a few Tbs of water, cook in microwave until fruit is tender.

This whole grain pancake recipe will make about 20 smaller (4″) pancakes.

Making your own whole grain pancake recipe is SO easy, I don’t know why I kept thinking I needed a mix. It took all of 3 extra minutes to gather the extra ingredients. The first time I made it I didn’t add the flax, I knew hubby was eating them and didn’t want to scare him away. The next time, he wasn’t, so I threw it in. The truth is, once cooked you can’t tell it’s in there. The speckles blend in with the toasty color of the pancake tops.

Check out our  other 100% Whole Grain Pancake Recipe with Pumpkin – Yum!

Enjoy.