These pancakes are super easy to make and syn free if you’re using the oats as part of your healthy extra B choice. If you’re using your healthy extra for something else, you will need to syn these at 7 syns. This mixture makes 8 fluffy pancakes. The key to this is to use baking powder, but you don’t need a lot of it. Using too much baking powder can affect the taste of the pancakes and you’ll need to syn it at 0.5 syn per 1 tsp if you choose to use more than stated in the recipe! If you like your pancakes quite sweet, then you may need to increase the amount of sweetener used. But remember that if you’re using more than 1tbsp of sweetener, you’ll have to count it as 0.5 syn per tablespoon!
Stick to the recipe below and it will be syn free.
If you’d like to enjoy these on a SP day, you can replace the yogurt with plain natural quark. 2 or 3 tablespoons of quark should be enough.
Oat Pancakes
Serves: 1
Syns: FREE (using oats as healthy extra B choice)
Time Taken: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
- 40g porridge oats
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 pot of Activia 0% vanilla yogurt (or similar)
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 1tsp sweetner
- 1/4tsp baking powder
Method
Blitz all ingredients together with a hand blender and let it rest for at least 30 minutes (very important to let it rest so that the mixture can thicken up).
Spray a frying pan with syn free cooking spray of your choice and add a dollop of the mixture to the pan. If you want, you can use a metal ring to make all your pancakes the same size but I don’t bother with that. As long as you’re adding roughly the same amount of mixture to the pan each time, you’ll get similar sized pancakes!
Cook the pancakes for a couple of minutes on one side before turning them and cooking them for another couple of minutes on the other side.
You can serve them with fresh chopped fruit and yogurt.
