Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? I know it’s true, but my kids can wake me up so early that I just want to curl up with a cup of coffee and feed them cereal until I’m fully awake. If only my kids would let me. I am NOT a morning person! But alas, they are awake and hungry early in the morning. During the school year, my son wants a bowl of cereal or oatmeal. However, in the summer, when we can enjoy the mornings with nowhere to be, we like to have a real breakfast and my kids love pancakes!
My mother has been using her basic pancake recipe for as long as I can remember and it is a great recipe, but I wanted something I could feel a bit better about serving my family regularly. So I tweaked it until I found a recipe that we love! I use whole wheat flour, less sugar and oil, and use some high protein Greek yogurt in place of some of the milk. My kids and hubby can’t get enough when I make these pancakes. If everyone is hungry, we need a batch and a half (and my kids are 3 and 6, yeah, they can eat a lot)!
This recipe is so easy to make too. It takes the same amount of time as a pancake mix, but tastes so much better. And the ingredients are real!
To mix them up, start by adding 1 cup whole wheat flour, 1/4 cup white flour (I find the little bit of white flour helps make them extra fluffy, but you can use all whole wheat if you want), 1 Tbsp baking powder, 2 Tbsp sugar, and 1/2 tsp salt in a medium bowl. Whisk together.
In a 2 cup liquid measuring cup, mix together 3/4 cup milk, 1/2 cup Greek yogurt, 1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla extract and 2 Tbsp oil. Whisk together and pour it into the dry ingredients.
Give it all a quick whisk and you are ready to cook!
Pour the batter onto a hot griddle. My mom always told me you would know your pancakes are ready to flip when there are lots of bubbles that come to the top of the pancakes and pop. This means the batter is cooking enough on the inside so you don’t have soggy, uncooked centers! And it works, I always have beautifully cooked pancakes, thanks mom 🙂
When they are all done, serve your pancakes up hot with butter and syrup… with a side of eggs… or with whipped cream and fresh fruit. That has always been my favorite way to enjoy breakfast.
So now I can at least get the kids in front of a hot, healthy breakfast before I curl up in my chair with a cup of coffee until I can wake up!
Healthy Everyday Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup white flour
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 Tbsp oil
Instructions
- Whisk together the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
- In a liquid measuring cup, whisk together the wet ingredients.
- Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients and mix together.
- Pour dollops of the batter onto a hot griddle and cook a couple minutes on each side until the center is cooked.
- Serve hot with your favorite pancake toppings.
- Enjoy!
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Thanks for your kind words 🙂
Thanks for sharing with us at Funtastic Friday. These look fabulous. Pancakes are our favs.
We’ve been doing “Pancakes Saturdays” for a couple of months now and my almost-4-year-old is catching on quick. Today he woke up and said, “Mom! It is Saturday! That means it is pancake Saturday!” I’ve been collecting different pancake recipes so myself and my husband don’t get bored with having the same thing each week. These look fantastic and I don’t have too feel too guilty over serving them to the kiddo!
Pancake Saturday’s sound like fun, but I think my kids would get mad cause I usually make them a couple times a week, at least in the summer 🙂 Do you want to share some fun recipes you have tried and love? I am also always looking for new recipes so I don’t get too bored even though the kids will eat the same thing all the time!
Yum! This looks delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe with us at the Merry Monday link party. I hope you’ll join us again next week! Sharing your post on Twitter!
Thank you Ashley 🙂
Love the addition of greek yogurt to your recipe! I’ll have to try these!
Thanks Cristina! I love the way they taste with the Greek yogurt. I hope you get a chance to try them.
These look awesome! I’m wondering how my ultra picky teenage kids who seriously need to eat healthier would react.
My sister has ultra-picky kids and she said they ate them all the other day when she usually has to fight them to eat. They give the pancakes a nice texture and flavor. If you need to, start by using 3/4 cup white flour and 1/2 cup wheat flour. Then slowly start using more wheat flour until you have them use to it! I’d love to know if they like them 🙂
We would need to add some mini chocolate chips to these for the grandchildren. Pancakes in our house has to include these. I love the yogurt added to them. A must try! From Making Memories Monday.
I add chocolate chips to them for my kids on occasion too! It’s funny how a small handful of chocolate chips on the pancakes makes their day. And I’ll just sprinkle a few on the top of the pancakes after I put the batter on the griddle so they are nice and even and then I choose how many pancakes I add chocolate too (my husband prefers to have his healthy).