Pancakes with just 3, 2 or even 1 ingredient

Foodie or not, sometimes a trip to the (super)market feels like the biggest task ever. You could call it laziness, but it also makes you creative: because what can you often still make with the ingredients you do have at home? Pancakes!

With a little improvisation, you can often get quite far. From fitgirl-worthy vegan pancakes to the most delicious savoury pancakes of your life, here’s how to do it:

Three ingredients

Anyone who has ever ended up in Pinterest’s fitgirl section has probably seen them before: banana-oatmeal pancakes. Sometimes vegan with almond milk, sometimes non-vegan with egg. But always made with ground oatmeal and mashed (ripe) banana. Okay, and a little oil for the pan.

Two ingredients

A little less sweet and fluffy, but wonderfully creamy and dense, are these cream cheese pancakes. The only things you need: eggs and—as you might have guessed—cream cheese.
Or how about sweet potato-based pancakes? Bake the potato first, let it cool, mix it with some eggs and voilà: there’s your batter.

One ingredient

Yes, you read that right: you can make pancakes (even stacks of them) with just one ingredient. What is it? Chickpea flour. Okay, before you enthusiastically throw it into the pan: mix it with water first. You can consider that two ingredients, but hey: you have water at home anyway, so it doesn’t really count. Add plenty of water for thin crêpes, or a little less if you prefer thicker ones (don’t make them too thick, as they’ll become quite dry). Also delicious with some pepper, salt and coriander. Or go for this recipe from Toscanini.