These look delicious.
I've been making pancakes with oatmeal in them lately, although I often use yoghurt (we never seem to have buttermilk) and grind up the oatmeal to smuggle it into the pancakes. When my daughter was 2 1/2, she ate a bunch of my pancakes with relish, then suddenly discovered there were lumps in them, and refused to eat the rest. Now that I grind the oatmeal, she has no complaints. I even sneak in some whole-wheat flour to help soothe my conscience that I'm serving something nutritious. The whole family loves them.
Perhaps soaking the oatmeal overnight makes them less lumpy? I'll have to try it your way, as your recipe seems to pack more oatmeal in than mine. Thank you for sharing.

On behalf of anaphylactics everywhere, unless you know none of your intended eaters are allergic, sub in vegetable or canola oil for the peanut oil.

Looks great sounds healthy :)
I've been making Oatmeal cookies lately and it's always a big hit to my family and co-workers (they even offered to buy it!).. this could be another great idea although i have a few questions:

What can be used as a substitute for Buttermilk? and can i Use the instant pancake Mixes with this?

marion Cunningham has an oatmeal pancake recipe in her amazing Breakfast Book that i have been making for years. Oats can be so sweet, in that not sugar kinda way.

also-- how wide is your griddle? where'd you get it?

But how many calories would one of these pancakes have? Could you let me know?

Elise, when soaking the oats & buttermilk, do you refrigerate the mixture?

I added some blueberries and they turned out wonderfully. As for the buttermilk mixture, I covered and placed in the refrigerator overnight -- still turned out great. Thanks for all your amazing recipes!

I made these Sunday, and they are now my favorite pancake. They really fill you up and I don't feel any guilt eating them, no sugar! I also refrigerated the oats and buttermilk overnight. Thanks for another great recipe.

I wanted to short-cut this recipe so I served it with a 5 hour soak in butter milk... WRONG the pancakes were so bad my guests could not eat them... the next morning I thought I would cook some up for the chickens, while cooking the pancakes I noticed they looked so good.I gave them a try and WOW that was the best cake ever so be sure and follow the recipe. Thank-you

I made these today - yum! - but they were kind of mushy in the middle (sort of oatmeal consistency, actually)not cakey like most pancakes. Is that how they are supposed to be or did I do something wrong?

Thanks.

Hi Lonnie, sounds like perhaps you could cook them longer? They will be a bit more oatmeal-ish and less cake-ish than a normal pancake, but they shouldn't be mushy,.

If you would prefer to avoid purchasing fresh buttermilk, Saco Buttermilk Mix is a great substitute.

After having decided to make these months ago, I finally got around to doing it. They are so good. I can't believe I waited so long. I decided to make them at the last minute, so I nuked the buttermilk and oatmeal for a couple of minutes and let it set while I was getting the strawberries ready. I am sure an overnight soak would be better but in a pinch the microwave worked well. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

Awesome recipe. I used the coddled milk for this recipe, and it turned out great! :)

They look so yummy ..i will try them. I have a question..has anyone ever substituded oat flour for either regular flour or bread flour? I was told that it can be done...any information would be appreciated

We made these this morning and enjoyed them very much. I sliced a banana and mixed it with the few fresh strawberries that I had. Very tasty!

Hi Elise,

I tried this last night and it was so yummy ! The idea of soaked oats is amazing. I tweaked the recipe a bit though - Added chopped onions , tomatoes , grated carrots , cumin powder, with a bit of salt and paprika to the pancake batter along with soaked oats . Thank you ! :)

I made these for my granddaughter, who can't eat dairy or wheat. I used rice milk with lemon juice in place of the buttermilk, added an extra egg and used 1 cup of spelt flour instead of the 1/2 cup of flour. She loved them!

I made these overnight, but used plain yogurt instead of buttermilk. I added 1/2 Tbsp cinnamon as well. My daughter loved them with apple sauce and Greek yogurt on top, though my husband thought them too tangy with maple syrup. Funny reversal of rolls!

I want to try them again with real buttermilk. Lowfat buttermilk has only 98 calories per cup, despite the name.

I didn't have enough buttermilk so I used half skim milk and was only able to soak the oatmeal for about 6 hours so I did a microwave bit and soaked. They were good but not exceptional. From other comments I think this is a recipe that needs to be followed exactly - I particularly loved the chicken story. Cutting this down to 1/3 the recipe makes a nice amount for two servings as I ended up with just over a dozen 3 inch pancakes. I can easily buy one little carton of buttermilk just for this recipe and think using all buttermilk will help. I really like the use of such healthy ingredients as the buttermilk and large amount of oatmeal making something that is a treat actually pretty good for you.

I made these on Sunday- absolutely wonderful! I froze about half the batch and have been enjoying them every day for breakfast since.