Apple Pie Style Pancakes

Serves: 2

Ready in: 20 minutes (the oats can be done overnight)

I'm not sure that adding cooked apple is enough for me to be able to label this 'apple pie style' but porridge pancakes and apples didn't sound jazzy enough so this is what we're going with. 

Ingredients
Pancakes

• 1 cup porridge oats
• 1.5 cups almond milk
• 1 tbsp apple sauce
• 1/2 tsp of cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp vanilla paste
• 1 tbsp coconut oil

Topping

• 2 medium sized apples 
• 2 tsp coconut oil
• 2 tbsp oats
• 1 tbsp maple syrup

Method

1. Soak the oats, milk, vanilla paste and cinnamon overnight.
2. Add the apple sauce to the porridge and mix thoroughly. 
3. Spoon the porridge mixture into a large frying pan with 1 tbsp coconut oil and fry until golden brown on both sides (about 15 minutes with a flip half way through).
4. In another pan add chopped apples and oats to the coconut oil and fry until everything is golden brown (another 15 minutes).
5. Plate up and drizzle the maple syrup over the top

Substitutions

• Almond milk- you can use water. I've not had milk before and water worked just as well. Any other dairy free substitute is fine too (except maybe coconut milk, just because it changes the flavour).
• Apple sauce - this acts as a binder so if you don't have apple sauce you can use any other egg substitute e.g. mashed banana or a flax egg.
• Cinnamon- If you don't like cinnamon just use whatever other flavourings you usually use in your apple pies. My nan uses nutmeg. Cool story, bro.