These Strawberry Oat Chocolate Chip Pancakes are made in the blender with creamy Greek yogurt, sweet strawberries and savory oats with chunks of dark chocolate nestled in the batter. Top with fresh berries for a perfectly sweet and healthy weight loss friendly breakfast. Gluten Free + Low Calorie
I am so excited to share these delectable Strawberry Oat Chocolate Chip Pancakes today with you today. They are RI.DIC.U.LOUS.L.Y. good!
For starters, they have dark chunks of chocolate nestled in them. Need I say more? Second, they’re extra creamy thanks to two magical ingredients, Greek yogurt and oats. Anytime you combine them, you get a nice fluffy batter. Perfect for pancake making. Last but not least, they’re made with have fresh, sweet strawberries.
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I’m just convinced dark chocolate and strawberries belong together. Actually, any berry and dark chocolate are a great match in my opinion, but strawberries and dark are a combo to lust over. In fact, lately it’s not uncommon that I’ll have a bowl of strawberries with a few dark chocolate chips after dinner. The two together are the perfect balance of sweet and tart flavors!
This recipe is similar to those Apple cinnamon Greek yogurt pancakes I made last fall. I love that batter because it’s so versatile. For the Strawberry Oat Chocolate Chip Pancakes, I simply swapped the apples for strawberries and added dark chocolate.
The difference with this recipe is that I blended fresh strawberries into the batter. By the way, frozen would work well in this too. Just be sure to thaw the berries first! I do want you to beware that when you blend the strawberries into the batter, it turns it into a pretty pink color.
Well, at least I think it’s pretty. “Pink is my signature color” (<–name that movie)! Come to think of it, I should have named these pretty in pink pancakes. The color does fade a little after you cook the pancakes so if you’re adverse to pink don’t worry. They are left with a light tint. They really are adorable and delicious too!
I’ve been waiting all week for the weekend to get here so I could make another batch of these Strawberry Oat Chocolate Chip Pancakes! Being away last weekend, meant I didn’t get my usual pancakes made for the week so I’ve been feeling a little deprived.
All I could think about all week was sinking my teeth into the rich dark chocolate and sweet strawberries in these pancakes. I mean who wouldn’t want chocolate for breakfast?
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Strawberry Oat Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup Gluten Free rolled oats
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt plain nonfat
- 1/2 cup applesauce unsweetened
- 2 egg whites room temperature
- 1 tbsp almond milk unsweetened
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- pinch sea salt
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1 cup strawberries frozen & thawed
- 2 tbsp dark chocolate chips
Instructions
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Heat a skillet to medium-high heat and spray with nonstick cooking spray. To a blender or food processor, add all ingredients and process until batter is smooth. It should be slightly runny.
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To the skillet, add 1/4 cup of batter at a time to form a pancake. Cook 3-4 minutes until pancake begins to bubble then flip with a spatula and cook another 2-3 minutes on the other side.
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Place pancakes on a cooling rack as you cook remainder of the batter. Serve and top with more fresh berries and dark chocolate.
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Keep pancakes in an air tight container for up to a week.
Recipe Notes
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Sweet holy whatevers these look amazing. Why couldn’t we have had a breakfast making session at NOW and then we could have made these??
I would have been OK with that!
Hmmm, these look lovely. Think there is any way to make these lactose free as well? Maybe by using coconut milk yogurt?
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Greek yogurt is actually lactose friendly. It has very little lactose in it due to how it is strained and people who are lactose intolerant can generally tolerate it. I am lactose intolerant and have no problems with it. Alternatively, there are lactose free Greek yogurts you can use. I do not recommend coconut yogurt. The ones I’ve inspected have 15-18 grams of sugar which is way too much. They are heavily loaded with additives like evaporated cane syrup in them. Totally unhealthy.
Yes, please!!!! You have the best pancake recipes, and these sound perfect! Can’t go wrong with the chocolate-strawberry-oat combination. Tis the season!
I really do love a good pancake. Thanks Blair!
These look amazing!!!!!! It’s funny I don’t really like regular pancakes = soggy not my thing but I usually love pancakes made from oats! Scale of 1-10 how weird is that?
YES! I make most of mine with oats or coconut flour to give them more fluff. Not weird at all!
All you food people are so creative. I’m just good at eating it.
Haha…come on over!
I love blending up oats, banana, and eggs for easy pancakes!
Pancakes are yummy!
I have everything I need to make these today. Looks too good not to.
You will love! So easy making them in the blender.
Strawberry chocolate is totally my favorite!
I knew you’d be on board!
Mmmmm… chocolate dipped strawberries, chocolate with my strawberry pancakes… I’ll take it all! One of the best combos. And I love how fluffy Greek makes them!
Now you have me craving chocolate covered strawberries!
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Good Morning, I followed the recipe and even used strawberries from the farmer’s market and put everything into the vitamix. The batter was not runny and the pancakes were gummy, not flufyy pancakes. What did I do wrong?
I’m not sure. Did you measure everything correctly? Did you add applesauce? What type of oats did you use? Was the Greek yogurt plain or was it flavored? Any yogurt with added sugar is possible to cause gummy. Were the strawberries really ripe to the point where they were mushy or were they hard? If they were hard, then it’s possible they were not ripe enough. They need to be ripe to create the liquid effect.