These 4-ingredient chickpea flour pancakes are easy, fluffy, and high in protein pancakes made with only four ingredients. Bonus, these pancakes are made with no milk, oil-free, grain-free, and gluten-free!
Chickpea flour pancakes are egg-free fluffy vegan pancakes made of chickpea flour, also known as besan flour. Bonus, this is a 4-ingredient protein pancake recipe with 3 grams of plant-based protein per pancake. It’s such a healthy alternative to my classic Vegan Pancakes, Vegan Banana Pancakes, or Vegan Almond Flour Pancakes.
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Chickpea Flour Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup Chickpea Flour - known as garbanzo bean flour (NOT besan or gram flour)
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder - or 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 tablespoons Unrefined Cane Sugar - coconut sugar or sugar-free erythritol/Monk fruit
- ½ cup + 2 tablespoons Almond Milk - vanilla, unsweetened or plant milk of your choice
Optional
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, whisk the chickpea flour, baking powder, sugar until well combined, and no lumps show.
- Whisk in unsweetened almond milk until smooth. Note that chickpea flour makes lumps easily. To avoid that, whisk vigorously until no more is left. It's OK to have a few lumps, but the less, the better it tastes! You can also blend the batter in a blender for an ultra-smooth texture.
- Warm a non-stick crepe pan or non-stick pancake griddle under medium heat. Slightly grease the pan with vegetable oil, about 1/2 teaspoon. I suggest rubbing a piece of oiled absorbent paper on the pan to avoid too much oil. Adding too much oil will fry your pancakes, and it is not what you want.
- Spoon 2-3 tablespoons of batter per pancake, depending on the size you like.
- Cook 2-3 minutes on one side or until the sides are half set, bubbles form in the center, and it is easy to flip without breaking.
- Slide a spatula under the pancake and flip over. Cook 1 more minute on the other side or until the center is set and the pancake is fluffy.
- Cool on a rack and repeat until no more batter left. You should be able to make 8 medium size pancakes from this batter.
- Serve immediately with maple syrup, banana slices, and fresh blueberries.
Notes
- You can add 1/3 cup vegan dark chocolate chips or fresh blueberries to the batter before cooking.
- You can freeze the cooked pancakes in a zip bag or airtight container. Make sure they don’t overlap. It makes it easier to defrost one-by-one. Defrost 3-4 hours or overnight at room temperature. Rewarm in a pancake griddle or toast for a few minutes in a toaster.
- You can make the batter ahead and cook your pancakes the day in the morning
Nutrition
Ingredients and Substitutions
All you need to make this recipe for chickpea flour pancakes are 4 ingredients. Let’s see what you need.
- Chickpea Flour, also is known as garbanzo bean flour – I love to use Bob’s Red Mill’s flour for this recipe. Before you start using your flour, make sure it has no lumps; if so, break them with a fork before measuring the flour for full precision. Chickpea flour can be reused in many other recipes like my Chickpea Flour Tortillas, Chickpea Flour Banana Bread, or Chickpea Peanut Butter Cookies.
- Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk – it’s great to use vanilla almond milk to add a delicious vanilla flavor to your pancakes. Chickpea flour can be slightly bitter, and vanilla is a great way to cover the flour’s bitterness. You can also use other dairy-free milk, but I believe almond milk is the best milk substitute for pancakes. It makes fluffy vegan pancakes!
- Baking Soda or baking powder if you don’t like the flavor of baking soda.
- Unrefined Sugar – there are many options. I love coconut sugar or sugar-free erythritol. You must add a sweetener to your batter to balance the natural bitterness of chickpea flour.
Some people don’t appreciate the light, earthy flavor of chickpea flour. Below are some add-ins you can add to your pancake batter to increase its sweet delicious flavor.
- Vanilla extract – add 1 teaspoon.
- Ground cinnamon – add 1/2 teaspoon.
- Blueberries – fresh or frozen add 1/2 cup.
- Vegan chocolate chips – add 1/3 cup.
How To Make Chickpea Flour Pancakes (in Pictures)
Pancake Topping Ideas
These are the most fluffy vegan, gluten-free pancakes you’ll find, with a delicious sweet flavor. They are delicious warm with a few of the following vegan pancakes toppings for your pancakes are:
- Liquid sweeteners like maple syrup, brown rice, agave syrup, apple syrup, or coconut syrup.
- Fruits – chopped bananas, blueberries, strawberries, fresh apricot, and apple slices.
- Nut butter – drizzle peanut butter or almond butter on top.
- Sliced almonds
- Vegan Whipped Cream
- Shredded coconut
- Vegan chocolate chips
- Date Caramel (Only 2 Ingredients!)
- Peanut Butter Caramel
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Can I freeze these?
I used baking soda and the pancakes turned out to be extremely bitter, just not edible.
Hi Anna.. I put raspberries, bananas and brown sugar in my mix. It tasted sweet..hope this helps.
I am sorry to hear that. Chickpea flour is not for everyone it is naturally slightly bitter and using baking osda instead of baking powder will enhance that bitterness.
Wow! These might just be the fluffiest vegan and gluten free pancakes i’ve ever had! They were absolutely delicious with mixed berries, coconut yogurt and maple syrup.
Thank YOU for trying my pancakes recipe and that lovely comment. I LOVE your toppings, coconut yoghurt is the best. Talk to you soon, XOXO Carine
I have had these pancakes two days in a row and I absolutely love them. They are scrumptious, and have the perfect consistency. Thank you so much for sharing your gift of baking <3
OMG! Thank you so much for making my recipes again and again. I am so glad you found my blog and enjoy the simple vegan recipes you see here. Talk to you soon, Carine.
Hi Carine, my first attempt at these was an epic failure. I blame my chick pea flour but it doesn’t give any info besides that its chick pea flour? It does say its “precooked” could that be why my first attempt was a doughy disaster?
Your batter should resemble a regular pancake batter, not too runny or thick. All my answer on how to pick chickpea flour are up in the post, I hope it could help you more to identify which flour you need. I understand it’s overwhelming when the package doesn’t tell us if it’s besan flour or chana flour because it matters so much in term of water absorption in the recipe. I hope you find a way to make them perfect very soon, Carine
Hi Carine: why cant we use Besan?
Unfortunately, no you can’t Besan flour or gram flour are made from Chana dal or split brown chickpeas. This is NOT the same as chickpea flour and it needs way more liquid to work with these flours. Don’t use besan or gram flour for chickpea flour pancakes or it will mess up your recipe.