Orange Currant Pancakes

Good Morning Pancake Eaters–  Nothing says the weekend like a good stack of pancakes for breakfast.  But happily when you’re a teacher, you can pancake for breakfast any day all summer long!  Here’s a plain old Tuesday morning breakfast with the grand-girls.

And I’m happy to have discovered that when there’s yogurt in the recipe, the pancakes come out fluffier and so tender.  So these are kind of an “orange-currant scone” version of my favorite oatmeal pancakes– sweet with that friendly morning citrus flavor.  Hope you like them as much as we did!

ORANGE CURRANT PANCAKES
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup flour
4/3 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 cup unflavored yogurt
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup orange juice (from 1 orange)
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup canola oil
grated peel of one orange
1/2 cup currants

Stir together the oatmeal, flour, baking powder and salt.  Then mix in the yogurt, milk, orange juice, vanilla and oil.  Finally fold in the orange peel and currants.

Heat a pancake skillet to medium and spray it with cooking spray.  Pour batter by 1/2 cupfuls onto the skillet and cook until browned on both sides and cooked through.

Jobay, the assistant pancake stirrer and expert pancake eater…