What can replace milk, for vegan pancakes without eggs?

Question

Please see the question in the title. My goal is to make vegan pancakes without:

1. eggs,

2. milk,

3. any milk alternative that uses Natural Flavours, like soy or coconut milk.

I live in Ontario, Canada and visited these 6 stores, yet all their soy and coconut milks contain Natural Flavours: Loblaws, Longo's, Metro, Noah's Natural Foods, Whole Foods Market, Your Good Health.

Answer 1

It sounds like you may wanna give oat milk a shot. Since you seem particular about what contents you want in it as well as what general location you wanna buy it in, I will suggest making it yourself, as it is quick, easy, and cheap to do so. Not to mention, you will end up with a product consisting entirely of water and oats (+whatever optional sweetener you may wanna add).

It takes mere minutes of effort:

Ingredients

1. 1 cup rolled oats (100 g)
2. 3-4 cups water (750 ml – 1 l), depending on how thick you like your milk

Instructions

1. Soak the oats in water for at least 30 minutes. We usually soak them overnight, but it’s not necessary.
2. Drain the oats and wash them (discard the soaking water).
3. Blend the oats with 3 to 4 cups of clean water (750 ml to 1 liter).
4. Strain the milk using a cheesecloth, a strainer, a napkin or a nut milk bag.
5. Store in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 5 days.

The above guide is taken from the first result on Google for "How to make oat milk". The article contains a few more tips worth reading. Substitute with any other recipe if you'd like, this is merely a suggestion.

Answer 2

I have been told by more kitchen-savvy friends that aqua-faba is an effective replacement for egg in baking.

Aqua faba is essentially the runoff from tinned chickpeas and you can easily just use that directly, or there are suppliers that sell a more refined version.

I can't speak for it myself, but having tried cakes baked using it, they've been consistently fluffy and delicious without any hint of chickpea in the flavour.

Answer 3

Simple recipe for vegan pancakes (I’m from UK where pancakes are similar to crepes which may be different to the kind of pancakes you want to make):

Ingredients:

• Unflavoured soy milk;
• White flour
• Vegetable oil (for frying)

Method:

1. Mix into a smooth batter
2. Let it stand for ten minutes
3. Use like you would use egg-based pancake mix (frying pan, small amount of oil hot, flip half way through)

After a few tries you’ll get the hang of how thick/thin to make the batter mix. It thickens a little during the standing phase.

I usually have these with sugar/lemon juice, or with maple syrup. Sometimes ice cream and/or chocolate sauce.