My friend, Karen Momany, posted this recipe in the comments section so I thought I’d share it. Her daughter, McKenzie, sent it to her from Peru. McKenzie spent 3 months in Peru doing service projects. She is now traveling in Ecuador for three months. She is spending her college years very wisely and I’m sure will remember these experiences for her whole life! But back to the pancakes. Karen split the 2 tablespoons of flax seed and put them into her own pan cakes, so she would get her full dose of the miracle grain!
Here’s the recipe:
1 1/2 C Millers thick cut oats (organic)
1/4 C ww flour
1/4 C white flour
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 t cinnamon
~1 T brown sugar-with the addition of flax I would add a little more sugar
~ 1 t salt or less
~buttermilk – enough buttermilk (or soy milk) to make it the consistency that you like your pancakes. You may need to add a little ?milk as it sits. I let this batter sit and absorb for about 10 min before I start baking. Batter stores well in fridge for the next days too! !
I topped the pancakes with strawberry butter…
My Eyes Are Up Here 
Elizabeth..thanks for sharing this on your blog…I am flattered…I love this recipe with the whole oats…I am trying to get my cholesterol down and am not a fan of the usual pancake recipe so this one is perfect.
There is no added fat in this recipe. I added 2 T of ground flax seed to my portion of the pancake mix to make 3 small pancakes to ensure that I received the total amount. Plus these are dense pancakes so small is better and cooks quicker…It does change the flavor so I wanted to test this first before serving to the masses at my house. We make~ 3 inch pancakes here so each person gets 3 for breakfast. Kids get chocolate chips in theirs plus the fruit topping. This is a moist wholesome pancake!!
FYI….We have too many daughters to keep track of….McKenzie is a junior at Whitman college…..currently in Ecuador for 3 mos and spent 3 mos in Peru this summer….. will be coming home at Christmas. Haley the youngest is a junior in high school…My older daughter Chelsea (whom you have not met yet) is at UW Dental school starting as a freshman…and feeling the workload! The upside of her being in Seattle is that I hope to meet up with you on one of my visits so we can say hello and have green tea!!
Oops about your daughters and oops about the flax seed instructions. I revised the post accordingly. I was wondering how McKenzie was going to be able to start dental school late given that she’s going to be down south for awhile. Now it makes sense!
Karen, I would love to see you when you visit Seattle!
I may revamp this recipe again. I am thinking 2 T of ground flax to my own pancakes is overwhelming. Must have been my zeal to get started that took over my brain…so I may try substituting the 1/4 C whole wheat flour with the 2 T ground flax to see how that affects the taste of these pancakes. The plain oats pancakes have a really nice flavor that I still want to try and maintain.
2 tablespoons is a lot, isn’t it! I had good luck modifying a couple of muffin recipes, including the one that’s on the back of the Bob’s Red Mill ground flax seed package. There’s no oil and butter. The eggs, shredded carrot, and apple keep them moist. I also made some molasses date muffins, substituting flax seed for a portion of the grains. They are a somewhat unappetizing color but very tasty. I’ve also made some peanut butter fruit/nut bars with flax seed. They are tasty to me but I don’t think my family would agree. I’ve got a few more recipes to try and maybe I will post the muffin and fruit nut bar recipes later today.
Yum to all the above…love dates too!! That would help with the flavor. I do believe the flax will start wearing on my taste buds a bit. Kind of like papaya did when I was trying to dissolve a kidney stone and had to puree all the papaya and drink it every day…seeds and all…Ugh! Cannot look at one to this day and not get a disgusting taste in my mouth..! it didn’t work on the nagging stone either.
I have decided that I am not messing with this recipe, it is great just the way it is…..ground flax seed is best left out of it. Putting the flax over yogurt or over granola is probably the easiest…
Yep, that’s the easiest way. I still need to post the molasses flax muffin recipe. It is really good.