My friend Jessica’s new book is here, and I’m so excited for her! The Pretty Dish is bursting with 150 colorful, flavor-packed recipes in Jessica’s true How Sweet Eats style, and all of them can be made in under 60 minutes. Well, slow cooker recipes excluded. Plus, she included 50 beauty DIY recipes. Homemade bath melts? I’m into that.
Jessica is as bubbly, witty and adorably self-deprecating in person as she is in writing. Her enthusiasm is infectious, and the book’s cover is the most perfect representation of her colorful personality and the vibrant recipes inside.
I was drawn to this chickpea recipe because it’s so simple and reminds me of some of my favorite deli salads. These marinated chickpeas with feta and basil are spicy and garlicky.
They’re a little sweet, too, thanks to the roasted red peppers and a touch of honey. They strike an irresistible balance between the two, and I could not stop going back for more.
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Making pancakes has never been easier with these banana oat blender pancakes. Learn how to use a blender to make these easy blender pancakes. This post is sponsored by Horizon Organic.
The other day, I was in the kitchen with Jordan, my 8 year old, and I said I felt like having pancakes.
She quickly ran to the pantry and sadly announced we don’t have any pancake mix.
I realized this was a teaching moment to show her how you don’t need pancake mix to make pancakes. Heck, you don’t even need flour!
So I grabbed some rolled oats, Horizon Organic whole milk, a banana, and a few other super simple ingredients, and my blender.
Jordan was super confused. Why did I need a blender for pancakes? Then, I added the ingredients into the blender, blended it, and started making BLENDER PANCAKES.
“Wow,” she said. Yep: Wow!
And then we enjoyed some tasty banana oat blender pancakes.
How To Make Blender Pancakes
Using a blender to make pancakes is awesome. Not only are they super easy, but you can add all sorts of flavors you might not have originally tried because you can purée it all together. If you don’t have a kitchen blender, you could also use a food processor. And, shoot, if you don’t have a food processor or a blender, you could just mash everything together and just have non blended pancakes — they’ll be pretty lumpy, but the flavors will be tasty.
To make blender pancakes, you just need a liquid, a binder, and whatever flavors you’d like to add. In these banana oat blender pancakes, I use Horizon Organic whole milk and whole fat Greek yogurt for the liquid, an egg, rolled oats, and a banana for a binder, and some cinnamon and vanilla extract for flavor. It’s so easy.
In other words: All real ingredients, nothing processed.
Also: Easy.
One of the absolute coolest things about these easy pancakes is that they use oat flour…by blending oats!
This means we can use whole rolled oats for the base which adds fiber, protein, and other nutrients. The oat flour replaces any need for regular flour which, especially in most store bought pancake mixes, is just bleached, highly refined all purpose flour.
If you’d like to make these blender pancakes gluten free, you would just need to use gluten free rolled oats instead of regular oats. Otherwise, all the other ingredients in these pancakes are gluten free.
Making pancakes has never been easier with these banana oat blender pancakes. Learn how to use a blender to make these easy blender pancakes.
This post contains affiliate links for products I use regularly and highly recommend. This post is sponsored by Horizon Organic.
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