Zero Waste Oat Milk Pancakes | Pukka Herbs

Zero Waste Oat Milk Pancakes

  • 2 Persons
  • 15 min

Reducing your food waste is one small, positive change you can make for our planet. Zero waste chef, Max La Manna, shares his recipe for zero-waste oat milk and pancakes, showing you how you can save your food scraps from going to waste.

Pukka Herbs and the Soil Association Charity are campaigning together to inspire more of us to take small positive steps to support nature every day. We share a common belief that human health and wellbeing is dependent on the health of our soil and planet, and both want a world where our food, farming and land use restores nature, promotes health and creates a safe climate. Organic is designed to respect nature and to enhance the health of soils, water and air, of plants and animals.

Learn more about organic by visiting the Soil Association website.

What you need:

For the oat milk

  • 250 grams organic oats

  • maple syrup

  • 1 litre water

For the pancakes

  • Strained oat pulp from oat milk

  • 260 grams organic self raising wholemeal flour

  • 310 ml organic oat milk

  • coconut yoghurt (optional)

  • fresh organic blueberries (optional)

What you do

  1. Add your oat milk ingredients to a blender and blend it for 15 seconds

  2. Place cheese cloth, nut bag or old t-shirt over a large mixing bowl

  3. In batches, strain the oat milk through your cloth into the bowl

  4. Once your milk is strained, it's ready to drink! Use what you'd like now or store in the fridge for later

  5. Add the leftover oat pulp, flour, some oat milk to a mixing bowl and mix together to make a batter

  6. In small batches, add the batter to a frying pan over a medium-high heat

  7. Cook the pancakes to your liking and serve with your preferred toppings. Max recommends coconut yoghurt, blueberries and maple syrup