These Oatmeal Pancakes are loaded with whole grains and they bake up fluffy and soft. A delicious and hearty way to start your day!
My favorite way to consume oats? In pancake form! Stacked high, slathered with salted butter, and dripping with syrup. Best. Breakfast. Ever.
We’re talking about whole grain oatmeal goodness meets fluffy and tender pancakes. A nutritious breakfast that will stick with you until lunch time.
Recipe overview: Oatmeal Pancakes
Here’s what makes these pancakes the best:
- Oats: Oats make these pancakes hearty and filling. Although you might think the oats would make these pancakes dense, they are surprisingly fluffy and tender.
- Buttermilk: Buttermilk softens and tenderizes the oats and it makes the pancakes moist.
- Flour: Oats are our primary dry ingredient, but there is all purpose flour in here, too. The flour helps hold everything together and it lightens the heaviness from the oats.
- Butter: Melted butter in the batter and plenty of melted butter for greasing your griddle.
Recipe tips:
- Allow yourself enough time. The oats and buttermilk need to soak for 15 minutes before proceeding with the pancake batter.
- Don’t have buttermilk? In a pinch you can use one of my Buttermilk Substitutes, but I recommend using actual buttermilk if you can. If you use a substitute (or regular milk) you might need to add a couple extra tablespoons of flour since the liquid will likely be a bit thinner than buttermilk.
- Grease your griddle liberally (butter is best)! This helps to give the pancakes a golden color and slightly crisp edges.
- Leftovers can be stored in the refrigerator and reheated in the microwave as needed.
- Leftover oats? Make a batch of Breakfast Bars.
Oatmeal Pancake Flavors:
This recipe is a blank canvas that you can play around with. Here are several other flavors to try:
Blueberry Oatmeal Pancakes: Drop a few blueberries onto the pancake batter as you place it on the griddle.
Banana Oatmeal Pancakes: Stir ⅓ cup chopped walnuts or pecans into the batter and serve the pancakes with sliced bananas.
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Pancakes: Stir ⅓ cup chocolate chips into the batter.
Oatmeal Raisin Pancakes: Add ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ¼ cup chopped walnuts, and ¼ cup raisins to the batter.
Berry Oatmeal Pancakes: Top the pancakes with fresh berries and berry preserves (heat it and use it in place of syrup) and fresh berries.
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Recipe
Oatmeal Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1 ¼ cups buttermilk*
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- ¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅔ cup all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- butter, for serving and greasing griddle
- maple syrup, for serving
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine oats and buttermilk. Allow to sit at room temperature for 15 minutes for the oats to soften.
- Add sugar, egg, melted butter, and vanilla to the oat mixture. Whisk until combined. Sprinkle the flour, baking powder, and salt over the top and mix with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon until combined. Be careful not to over mix. Set aside while you preheat your griddle.
- Place a nonstick griddle over medium-low heat. Generously grease the griddle with butter. Using a ⅓ cup measuring cup (or an ice cream scoop), drop/pour the batter onto the griddle, slightly spreading it as you pour it**. Cook until golden brown, then flip and continue cooking until cooked through.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional Information is an estimate based on third-party calculations and may vary based on products used and serving sizes.
Tried this recipe?Leave a comment and rating below!
Bernie
Excellent. Have made oatmeal pancakes but not with buttermilk. Much better with buttermilk
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed them!
GJ
Made these this morning and really like em. More texture than regular pancakes and I really liked that. Will use this Patmeal recipe from now on. Used GF Old Fashioned Nature’s Path Organic from SPROUTS – our fav😻
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂
Dee
Question? So it’s 294 calories for 4 pancakes? Or per pancake?
They were delicious! My hubby just ate 4….
One batch of above ingredients made 6 pancakes…..
Allison
It’s per serving. So, for this recipe it would be 1/4 of the total amount.
Janet
Made these pancakes for breakfast and loved it.
I’m not a fan of oatmeal but these were so delicious.
I’ll definitely will be making them again, thanks for posting.
Allison
You’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed them. 🙂
Pam
These were delicious. I added an extra egg for protein and used brown sugar instead of white.
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed them!
Erica
Thank you for this yummy recipe. Used gluten free flour, non dairy milk with apple cider vinegar, and coconut sugar.
Allison
You’re welcome! Thanks for sharing your modifications. 🙂
Lyn
Best pancakes ever! ❤️❤️
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed them!
Kathy
We enjoyed this recipe this morning. Definitely recommend!
Allison
I’m so glad! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Lynn Shedrick
Delicious! Great recipe! Taste and texture are perfect! Served w/ maple syrup and blueberries! Will make them again for sure! Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Allison
You’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed them. 🙂
Carol
OMG! What a fantastic recipe. I made these for the first time this morning. It’s the perfect pancake, flavorful, chewy and crispy crunchy. This is now our favorite pancake. It’s also one of the easiest pancakes to make. Like I said it’s the perfect pancake recipe.
Thank you so much.❤️
Allison
You’re welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed them. 🙂
Cynthia Wandel
Hi Allison,
I just tried your recipe today. The pancakes were delicious and turned out great. I was just wondering what the serving size is though. Is it one or two pancakes? I’m on WW so that’s the reason I’m asking. Thanks again for a great recipe!
Best,
Cynthia W.
Allison
Hi! The nutrition facts are for 1/4 of the recipe. Depending on how large you made your pancakes it is likely 2-3 pancakes.