I’ve discovered the holy grail of pancake recipes. And trust me, I would never call any recipe the holy grail of anything unless I absolutely, 100%, beyond any shadow of a doubt believed it to be true. And these, my friends, are the holy grail of pancakes: thick, fluffy, and unbelievably delicious.
Can you spot the secret ingredient?
Flour, an egg, baking soda, and a container of Greek yogurt are the only ingredients you’ll need to whip these up in 10 minutes flat.
That’s right— you only need 1 bowl, 4 ingredients, and 10 minutes to make the best pancakes ever.
I’ve made these Greek yogurt pancakes about a bajillion times and they’re virtually foolproof. I most often use 0% vanilla Chobani, but have also tried mango and strawberry banana flavored yogurt with fantastically delicious results as well.
Try these! You’ll love ‘em.
UPDATE 11/5/13:
I made a video demonstrating how to to make these Greek yogurt pancakes. Check it out below and be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel for more recipes – I’m planning to film quite a few in the coming months.
- 6 oz of your favorite Greek yogurt
- 1 egg
- scant ½ cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- Open the yogurt container and stir the yogurt until it’s smooth and creamy. Crack an egg over the yogurt and stir to combine leaving. The resulting mixture should be pale yellow in color and have a few lumps here and there.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the flour and baking soda.
- Pour yogurt/egg mixture into the bowl with the flour and baking soda. Stir to combine. The batter will be extremely thick.
- Spoon the batter onto a sprayed griddle or pan heated to medium-high. I usually make four big pancakes, but you could also make 8 smaller ones.
- Flip the pancakes when they start to bubble a bit on the surface. Cook until golden brown on both sides and serve with butter, syrup, fruit, Nutella….anything! Enjoy!
363 Comments
Hi Page, just having this delicious version! Thanks for sharing; the only change that I made was to add a pinch of salt, turn out really good.
I made these with egg whites and plain non-fat greek yogurt.
I added a little vanilla just for funsies, and they were great :)
Can’t wait to make them again!
I’ll add some fruit next time and see how it goes…
I made a double batch of these this morning with Strawberry-banana Chobani, and they were great! I wanted a little extra protein kick, so I also dropped in a scoop of vanilla protein powder. In order to compensate for the extra dry ingredient, I added 3 tbsp of 2% milk, and the batter was perfect. Spray the pan, turn down the heat, and voila, amazingly healthy pancakes!
What kind of protein powder do you suggest?
Found these on Pinterest and made them last night.
Used nonfat plain greek yogurt and eggwhites (3 Tbsp) Added a splash of pure vanilla extract. They were delicious! Next time I will add blueberries or raspberries for extra yum. I’m currently on a no sugar clean eating diet and it was so nice to find something to “indulge” in without the guilt! I can’t wait to make these again.
I tried these with almond flour, didn’t quite hold together but tasted pretty good, will experiment with ground flax seed and coconut flour as well. Thanks!
Would this recipe work for waffles too. Usually the only difference in the batter is that waffles add oil.
Our son thanks you! Our family diet has changed and traditional pancakes was removed from the list.
The tweak of your recipe so far is we added a teaspoon of cinnamon and went with a 1/4 c. ground flax and 1/4 c. unbleached flour.
Future tries- will test adding almond meal instead of flour. Perhaps a try at cooking them in a waffle iron.
Did you try the recipe with almond meal? I was wanting to try the recipe, but I would need to use the almond meal, but I’m not sure how to tweak the recipe to accommodate the change.
i was just reading all the comments to see if anyone tried it with almond meal or quinoa flour.
Made these this morning. I used nonfat greek yogurt, 1/4 c. egg beaters and a splash of almond milk to help thin out batter. Loved them. I also put some blueberries in my batter.
6 good size pancakes and yes, I ate them all. So yummy. Greek yogurt my new favorite ingredient . Thanks for the recipe!!
Just tried these. They are delicious and my son loved them!!!! Will be trying with different flavored yogurts. Thanks for the new recipe!
Paige you seem to have so many good ideas! Why did you stop posting?
I will definitely try these; they look absolutely delicious!
Wow these sound GREAT!!!!! can’t wait to try them :)
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These are ridonkulous! Do you the calorie content of your original recipe?
These are good, I have tried them with whole wheat flour and regular white flour.. I use one container (7oz) of Fage 2% greek yogurt, but the only issue I have is that I can NEVER get 4 pancakes out of one batch.. the most I get is 3 small/med pancakes. If I double the recipe I get 6. The batter is super thick and a bit hard to cook, but I like the added protein. :) Thanks for the recipe!