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Coconut banana buckwheat pancakes are naturally gluten free, sweet and so delicious! If you’ve never used buckwheat flour, today is the day. It’s soft, slightly nutty and the perfect pair with banana and coconut.
Coconut Banana Buckwheat Pancakes
The banana in these coconut banana buckwheat pancakes offer up sweetness + moisture. No dry pancakes here! They are fluffy, sweet and filled with a tiny bit of crunch from the coconut.
Top with your favorite nut butter + extra shredded coconut!
How to make buckwheat flour
Buckwheat flour is made the same way as homemade oat flour – simply blend it up until smooth. When making buckwheat flour look for RAW buckwheat groats – not toasted buckwheat. Buckwheat flour is also typically toasted so I really recommend grinding your own for the lighter flavor profile.
What you’ll need for coconut banana buckwheat pancakes
- banana
- egg white
- vanilla extract
- raw buckwheat flour
- unsweetened shredded coconut
- cinnamon
- baking powder
How to make coconut banana buckwheat pancakes
- Mash the banana in a bowl. Add the egg white and vanilla extract and mix fully.
- Add in the remaining ingredients and stir until combined.
- Heat a large skillet to medium hight heat (or heat an electric griddle to 325 degrees F). Pour 3 pancakes onto the griddle. Cook for 2-3 minutes until slightly browned and flip. Cook another 2 minutes to finish cooking.
- Top with your favorite nut butter and extra shredded coconut for more crunch!
Substitution ideas
- Don’t have buckwheat flour around? Use oat flour instead
- Not a banana fan? Try canned pumpkin
- Double or triple the recipe and freeze extra (see below on how to freeze + defrost)
How to freeze pancakes
Pancakes freeze wonderfully! Here’s how to freeze them individually.
Here’s how to freeze pancakes and defrost them
Cool pancakes fully before freezing. Place a sheet of parchment paper on a baking sheet. Lay pancakes on parchment, without stacking. Once fully frozen, transfer pancakes to a freeze bag, label and date and store in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Here’s how to defrost pancakes to eat
Either remove the number of pancakes you want to eat, and place in the fridge to defrost overnight. Then simply warm in a pan.
Or, if defrosting from frozen here’s what to do. Place pancakes on a baking sheet and in a 300 degree oven until warmed.
Looking for more recipes? Try these:
- Chocolate peanut butter buckwheat granola
- Buckwheat oat pancakes mix
- Banana zucchini buckwheat pancakes
- Banana egg oat pancakes
- Buckwheat crepe recipe
Coconut Banana Buckwheat Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana
- 1 egg white
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ cup buckwheat flour
- 1 tbsp unsweetened shredded coconut
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Mash the banana in a bowl. Add the egg white and vanilla extract and mix fully.
- Add in the remaining ingredients and stir until combined.
- Heat a large skillet to medium hight heat (or heat an electric griddle to 325 degrees F). Pour 3 pancakes onto the griddle. Cook for 2-3 minutes until slightly browned and flip. Cook another 2 minutes to finish cooking.
- Top with your favorite nut butter and extra shredded coconut for more crunch!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
If you try this recipe, I’d love it if you left a star rating and comment below letting me know how it turned out!
XO
Heather
*Originally published in January 2011. Updated November 2020.*
Sounds good, I bought some gluten free flour today but perhaps buckwheat is the healthier way to go! I love that you’ve set it up so we can print the recipes! Thanks
Those buckwheat pancakes look great! It has been so long since I have had buckwheat pancakes, I need to make them again here soon 🙂 Good luck with the study sounds exciting. You know we are big plant based believers!!!! We will be here cheering you on!
Thanks girls! I’m sure I’ll be looking through your recipes for meal ideas… starting off with your sweet potato, lentil and brussel sprout burgers – those sound so good!
Oh man, I love buckwheat!!! I’ve only had the buckwheat groats, but once I get my hands on some buckwheat flour, I know what’s on the top of my list!!!! 🙂 (in the meantime, do you think this will work with whole wheat flour?)
Good Luck! 🙂
It’ll definitely work with ww flour… you may just have to adjust the liquid a bit. You could also try grinding the groat into a fine flour… that may work as well Kathleen.
Thanks. Will do! 🙂
I love buckwheat flour.. it is by far my favorite flour. I’ve been debating going vegan myself and decided to take the plunge for a month. So far so good! Good luck with your plan!
Way to take the plunge! I’m excited to read how it goes for you. Maybe we can do some recipe and tip swapping as we go along?
Thanks, Heather! I’m pretty excited about trying all the new recipes and ways of cooking. I would be happy to recipe swap and share tips! =)
Good luck with your veganism! When I ate the right things as a vegan, I felt great. Unfortunately, I got lazy with it and fell into the trap of ‘eating anything because it’s vegan.’ Now I’m a vegetarian and feeling good 🙂
It’ll be work but I’m hoping it makes me feel great. We’ll see 🙂
What a great recipe! being in a study like that is the ultimate way to get yourself on board to a more plant based diet…love it! Keep us posted!
ow! I want to pickup some buckwheat flour and try these babies out! I’ve never used buckwheat flour. Good luck with the experiment- I’ll be excited to read your updates.
Wowza-this looks AWESOME!
That’s wonderful! I would love to be a part of some sort of diet research at some point. Be sure to blog about it, especially the results!
These pancakes look incredible!! I have everything on hand to make your date balls, too…just need to do it!!
I’ll be sure to share how it goes. I’m excited for it!
I was soo in the mood for pancakes yeterday that I ended making some with my niece. Have I known that you’re posting today about this delicious recipe, I would have waited. I agree with you.. a man needs his meat. I don’t think Jacob or Mike can survive without meat! Lol
Have a great week ahead sweetie.
xoxo