Breakfast · Pancakes & waffles

Banana pancakes

Name: Banana pancakes
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 2 bananas; 3 egg; 1 cup oatmeal; 1 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon; a pinch salt; for the pan butter

The three-ingredient pancake that lives forever on the internet: banana, eggs and oats, blended into batter. No flour, no added sugar — the banana is the sugar.

Time: 15 min (5 prep + 10 cook)
Servings: 2
Per serving: 399 kcal
Protein: 15 g

Ingredients

2 bananas200 g
3 egg150 g
1 cup oatmeal80 g
1 tsp baking powder4 g
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon1 g
a pinch salt1 g
for the pan butter10 g

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Steps

Blend everything until smooth, then let the batter sit 5 minutes — the oats need it to thicken.
Cook small pancakes (small flip easier; these are more delicate than flour ones) in a buttered nonstick over medium-low.
Flip when bubbles set at the edges, about 2 minutes, then 1 minute more.
Eat as they come — banana pancakes are best 30 seconds old.

Why do mine fall apart?

Size and heat. Keep them under 10 cm (4 inches) across and the flip survives; go dinner-plate size and there's no flour holding it together. Medium-low heat gives the middle time to set before the outside darkens.

Alternative

Protein pancakesMore protein per calorie39

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

15% of kcal

60% water

15 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 798 kcal goes into the pot, 446 g of ingredients comes out as ~420 g of food → 190 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 190
Protein: (15%); 7 g
Fat: (33%); 7 g
Carbohydrates: (52%); 25 g
of which sugar: 8 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sodium: 309 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.