Healthy Sweet Potato Pancakes
Published 11/24/2020 • Updated 10/23/2023
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Start your morning out right with these Sweet Potato Pancakes! This healthy pancake recipe is made with sweet potato puree and is naturally sweetened.
Sweet Potato Recipes
It is no secret that we love sweet potatoes here on Fit Foodie Finds. We have so many delicious sweet potato recipes where sweet potatoes are the main dish and recipes that use sweet potato puree to create delicious flavorful recipes. You just can’t go wrong.
Why sweet potatoes? Let us tell you why!
How to Cook with Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes can be prepared a few different ways. How you prepare your sweet potatoes depends on what recipe you are making!
- Roasted Sweet Potatoes are great for a side dish or if you are preparing a recipe like a buddha bowl or a breakfast hash!
- Baked Sweet Potatoes are also great as a side dish or a main dish if you make them loaded sweet potatoes! We also like to turn our left over baked sweet potatoes into potato puree to use later!
- Sweet Potato Puree is a great ingredient for baked goods like these sweet potato brownies and these healthy sweet potato pancakes!
Why Should I Make Sweet Potato Pancakes?
They are easy.
The fact that you can mix eggs, flour, and sweet potato puree together to make delicious and healthy pancake recipe, still blows my mind sometimes.
You can puree your own sweet potato (learn how to HERE) or you can buy pureed sweet potatoes at the store, they will both work just fine!
They are healthy.
These sweet potato pancakes are my favorite healthy pancakes so far on FFF. We all know I’ve had quite a few pancakes in my day. They are perfect for a lazy Sunday morning or for a meal prep breakfast for the week.
You can meal prep them.
If you’ve never meal-prepped pancakes, it’s amazing. All you do is make a batch or two of pancakes, let them cool, then throw them in a freezer safe bag for later.
When you’re feeling like pancakes on a weekday morning, all you have to do is throw them in a toaster and BAM. Pancakes.
You can top them.
I love to serve these sweet potato pancakes with a little bit of almond butter and maple syrup, but if you’re craving savory breakfast, try serving them with a fried egg. YUM.
here’s a tip
Do you have left over sweet potatoes or sweet potato puree? Feel free to freeze it for later! All you have to do is let the sweet potatoes cool completely before purring them in a freezer safe container and then placing them in the freezer.
They will last up to 3 months in the freezer!
Healthy Sweet Potato Pancakes
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1.5 cups white whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 cup unsweetened, plain almond milk
- 1 cup sweet potato puree, Make your own HERE.
- 2 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, mix together dry ingredients. Set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together wet ingredients.
- Then, slowly add wet ingredients to dry and mix until there are no lumps.
- Heat a skillet to medium heat and spray with coconut oil cooking spray. Use around a 1/3 cup scoop and pour batter onto skillet. Cook for around 2-3 minutes per side.
- Serve with almond butter and maple syrup!
Tips & Notes
- This recipe was updated on September 23, 2020.
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Nutrition
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These didn’t work for me. The batter was far too thick (like cookie dough) and the pancakes wouldn’t cook through (think a burnt layer of crispy pancake on the outside with the consistency of soggy mashed potatoes in between). I tried saving them by baking them in the oven for 10 min, but they still came out raw in the middle. I make pancakes every week, so I feel like I know what I’m doing, but these ended up in the garbage.
I’m sure this is tasty, but not as healthy as they could be. For one, coconut oil is pure saturated fat…. It’s just as bad for the heart as butter. For another, eggs may have some beneficial nutrients, but they are little bombs of pure saturated fat and cholesterol and are certainly not healthy. I’d love to see a “fit foods” website make a saturated fat and cholesterol free version.
I looove this recipe!! It tastes extremely good (I didn’t expect it to taste so darn good). Plus with the cinnamon and the spices it is perfect for Christmas and Holiday season, the taste reminds me a bit of gingerbread man. I also adore the fact that it is healthy. In conclusion, really recommend it, it’s delicious!!!!
(As I’m intolerant to oats, I swapped the oat flour with a bit of rice flour and a bit of almond flour)
So good! As a dietitian and a mama, I’m always looking for ways to increase the nutrients in my son’s food, and these pancakes are a fab way to do so! So yummy, and healthy, too!
Dietitian approved!!
What can I sub flax seeds with?!
You can just omit!
I absolutely LOVE this recipe! I replace maple syrup with applesauce (and sometimes add a banana too) and then I can feed them to my 9 mo. old. These are amazingly delicious and nutritious. Great food for the whole family!
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HOW TO MAKES PUREE OF SWEET POTATOES PLEASE.
Just curious, did you use liquid measure or dry measure for the sweet potatoes? Mine turned out way too mushy. Had to add more flour and it still didn’t have a firm consistency.
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Full of healthy, hearty, goodness. I used pumpkin pie spices, and more liquid, but loved these!!
Delish!
I recently tried sweet potato pancakes at a local restaurant and was pleasantly surprised by how yummy they were! (I’m not usually a fan of sweet potatoes.) So I came online in search of a recipe…these look delish!
All restaurants should have sweet potato pancakes 🙂