Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Pancakes
Updated September 10, 2024
Quick Summary
Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Pancakes- light and fluffy pancakes bursting with lemon flavor and poppy seeds! The yogurt adds great flavor and protein too! The perfect breakfast!
Josh and I love making pancakes together on the weekends. Caleb is enjoying the tradition too. He plays with his whisk and measuring cups until it’s time to eat. He never passes up pancakes.
Josh always begs for Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes, but I rarely let him get his way:) Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE those pancakes. They are our favorite, but I like to keep life interesting by creating new pancake recipes. Josh would be fine with the same pancake recipe for the rest of his life.
I recently suggested that we make Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Pancakes. Josh loves lemon so I knew he would be on board. And our fridge was overflowing with citrus, so we needed to put some zest into our breakfast!
Every time we make pancakes Josh asks if they have to be whole wheat. I almost always say yes. I love whole wheat pancakes and they are good for us. Well, this time I said we can use white flour, but let me take care of the dry ingredients. While Josh wasn’t looking I got out our Gold Medal WHITE whole wheat flour. I am so sneaky:)
Gold Medal White Whole Wheat flour can be used in any recipe. It is 100% whole grain but has a lighter taste and color. So if someone in your family whines about eating whole wheat, you have to try this flour. They will never know they are eating whole wheat. It is amazing! And I love the packaging. SO pretty! Another reason to buy it:)
The pancakes are made with Greek yogurt, giving the pancakes a slight tang and fluffy texture. The pancakes are also bursting with lemon flavor. A little trick-rub the sugar and lemon zest together until fragrant. It brings out the essential oils from the zest and will make the pancakes extra lemony. The poppy seeds add a slight crunch and remind me of one of my favorite muffins.
Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Pancakes are the kind of pancakes that put a smile on your face and make you feel good about starting a new day. Make a big stack and start eating!
And just in case you are wondering… Josh never knew that he ate whole wheat Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Pancakes for breakfast. He loved them and said we should make these pancakes again! I just grinned and said, if you insist my dear:)
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Lemon Poppy Seed Yogurt Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups white whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 3 teaspoons lemon zest
- 1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1 cup skim milk
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. In a small bowl, combine the sugar and lemon zest. Rub together with your fingers until fragrant. Whisk into the dry ingredients.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the yogurt, milk, lemon juice, eggs, oil, and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ones, mixing only until combined. Stir in the poppy seeds.
- Heat a griddle pan or non-stick skillet over medium heat. Spray with cooking spray. Pour about ¼ of a cup of pancake batter onto the hot griddle pan, spacing out the pancakes a few inches from each other. When the pancakes start to bubble up, flip and cook until pancakes are slightly golden brown. Serve warm with butter, maple syrup, fresh fruit, or jam-if desired.
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I think it’s cute that you still experiment even though Josh would be content with the cinn streusel pancakes for life 🙂 These look wonderful. Love baking with Chobani!
The cut is so beautiful 😉
I get stuck in a pancake rut, of just plain whole wheat pancakes. I should definitely bump up the flavor and make these! 😀
Awesome recipe! I am such a huge pancake fan with yogurt in it!! Yum!!
Haha. I love it that you “hid” the whole wheat flour. There are so many ingredients that my kids (or hubby) just “think” they do not like….but they really do! I’ve been doing a lot of my own hiding ingredients. After making the same recipe a few times and getting them hooked on it and they say how much they love it, that is when I drop them bombshell and tell them what they are eating.
Looks delicious! I tried making orange vanilla pancakes recently with Greek yogurt, but they turned out heavy and weirdly greasy. Any tips?
yum, those look and sound really good.
Oh my goodness!!! WOW, I am totally bookmarking this. Lemon poppy seed is one of my favorite things ever. These look fantastic!
These look like the perfect pancakes to get us out of our usual pancake rut! Love that you used white whole wheat flour, that is basically the only way my husband will eat wheat flour in pancakes!
Lemon Poppy Seed is one of my favorites…so in pancakes, I can’t even imagine!
So good!
We love eating pancakes on the weekends too. I’ve never made them with greek yogurt before but I’m going to give it a try soon. Your pancakes look incredibly moist and the lemon and poppy seed combination is, I’m sure, delicious.
Great flavor combo! Love pancakes 🙂
These are beautiful, Maria! I love that you were able to sneak in the whole wheat flour. I do that quite often with WW white!
We are so making these this weekend for Sunday Brunch! I’m currently 38 weeks pregnant and craving all things lemon!
I craved pancakes my entire pregnancy. I am not pregnant, but I still love pancakes:)
I keep seeing these amazing looking lemon and poppy seed recipes and I have yet to try baking with poppy seeds; I need to fix that! 🙂
mmmm….with 100% maple syrup. how well do these pancakes freeze? can I just put them on the toaster to warm up? thanks!
love your blog and come often for recipes 🙂
Oh, sounds so fresh and yummy! Not to mention, looks amazing!
Yum! My husband and I love whole-wheat pancakes! They taste so much heartier than regular pancakes. Lemon poppy seed sound delicious. These are a must try. 🙂 Thanks for the recipe!
We did pancake breakfasts for a long long time, but I didn’t like feeding my family white flour for breakfast every week. So we switched to french toast (whole wheat – haha). This is the perfect solution! Thanks Maria.
We love.love.love lemon and I am so excited to make lemon poppyseed (whole wheat) pancakes. YUM!
These look great, I need to try the white wheat flower. Where do you buy your poppy seeds?????
I have looked at multiple stores and have not found them. Love the site
I bought the poppy seeds at Whole Foods in the bulk section. Most grocery stores have them in the spice aisle too.
I can’t even get over how gorgeous this post is.
Love baking with white whole wheat flour! Loving the fresh lemon juice too. 😉
These are totally lovely. I can only imagine how well they’d go over here. And I LOVE using white whole wheat…perfect recipe for it!
These pancakes look perfect with the lemon and poppy seeds.
I adore anything lemon. And I’m with you on the white whole wheat flour. It’s light and still healthy. I can’t wait to try these for my sunday breakfast. I think these would make a perfect addition to Easter brunch also. Thanks! 🙂
I usually don’t like pancakes because they get soggy from all of the maple syrup but these pancake sound like they have enough flavor on their own! I’m gonna give it a try!
These look wonderful! We are all about the lemon pancakes. We have a meyer lemon greek yogurt pancake that is one of our absolute favoites. Gosh, I’m suddenly starving again. Cannot wait to try your version!
Great idea for pancakes! They look so pretty and so delicious!
These look so, so perfect Maria! Love!
Ah, my favorite meal and my favorite breakfast dish – I’m coming over. 🙂
These pancakes sound so refreshing!
Such a delish looking stack ‘o pancakes!
What a great change from the traditional lemon poppy seed muffin! I love using white whole wheat flour too, because my fiance gets mopey about all the whole wheat goodies that show up in the kitchen. He, too, could live on just “plain” pancakes (specifically he requests “no secret ingredients or surprises”) and I can’t help but beg to slip a little something special in them. Every so often, he agrees. 🙂
oh Maria, these look SO fresh and SO pretty!! I would love a stack of these for breakfast 🙂
Oh those look simply scrumptious. You know I’ve never seen poppy seeds in the grocery store … where do you find those?
I bought them at Whole Foods in the bulk section. Most grocery stores have them by the spices.
I’ve never baked with poppy seeds but have always wanted to try it out! Love these pancakes – they look delicious!
They look amazing! I may have to make these for my kids this weekend. YUM!
I always use Gold Medal flour, and the white whole wheat is a life saver in getting more whole wheat without the family knowing. What a great idea for pancakes, they sound do light and perfect for spring!
These are just so pretty!! I love lemon poppyseed, these are brilliant 🙂
These are so pretty!! I love lemon pancakes, and especially love the yogurt in these!
I echo all the sentiments above — and am going to try this recipe. But what really tugged at my heart was the image of little Caleb playing with his whisk and measuring cups while you guys cook. When my oldest daughter was 18 months old I fixed up one of the bottom drawers in the kitchen with some hot pads, a muffin tin, a pot with a lid, and some wooden spoons. She would madly empty all this out onto the floor and play with everything. I have a picture of her in her nightie, one sock off and one sock on, her ringlets going wild, throwing stuff out of that drawer. You really made me smile. Thanks, Maria.
Hi Terry-thanks for sharing your story. We are so glad Caleb likes to be in the kitchen with us.
Lemon poppy seed muffins have always been a serious favorite of mine…but to have them in pancake form sounds even better!
ohmygoodness. Those Cinnamon Struesal pancakes? Where have they been all my life! I need them. And now those lemon pancakes….two things I didn’t know my life was missing.
You are such a good wife. 🙂 Looks yummy!
i just need a lemon and i am making these, asap! so delicious, i love anything lemon/poppyseed!
My husband will LOVE these! I’ll be giving them a go this weekend I think 🙂
Love the refreshing lemon flavor in these pancakes! And poppy seeds make a lovely texture! Never heard of white whole wheat flour! I always use whole wheat too and to be honest, I sometimes miss the white color! Hope we can have a similar product in Turkey too!
I’m not a big pancake person but I love this twist!
These look positively mouthwatering! I had to share them on Pinterest and FB. Thanks for posting, I am going to make these SOON!
Those sound heavenly–perfect with fresh berries!
These look and sound amazing!!!
We love lemon poppyseed muffins, so I know we’re going to enjoy these! I already have them on my to-do list for the weekend.
Do you think this recipe would need to be altered to convert to waffles and put in a waffle maker?
One of my favorite flavor combinations, Maria! And my three kids love pancakes…Hmmm, guess we’ve got Saturday morning all wrapped up!
I would be all about these one fine early morning. (Or maybe for a late snack?)
Lemon Poppyseed Muffins are my husband’s favorite, I don’t know why I’ve never thought of trying them as pancakes before! Thanks for the inspiration! I made these for breakfast this morning (literally five minutes after I saw the recipe) and they were great! Our favorite combo is lemon + raspberry so I made a quick raspberry sauce to go on top of them (just some frozen raspberries + 100% fruit raspberry jam heated up and mashed together). So refreshing and delicious, it made it seem like a little bit of spring (even with the 20 degree weather)!
Glad you liked the recipe! The raspberry sauce sounds amazing!
I’m with Josh — I could eat Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes every day!! But these look yummy too 🙂
looks delicious!!
I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve never tried a flavored pancake. I guess because I’m slightly obsessed with the good ol’ buttermilk kind. But I LOVE lemon poppy seed muffins so this has me intrigued; think I might give it a try this weekend. 🙂
these look delicious I LOVE lemon!
Super excited to try this recipe. I love lemon anything!
I really like lemon poppy seed muffins so can’t wait to try these!
These pancakes sound fantastic! Just like the classic muffin, but in pancake form so you can pour syrup over them… 🙂
I love how everyone is cranking up lemon recipes! I can’t wait for the temperatures to warm a little more. But that wouldn’t stop me from enjoying a few stacks of this deliciousness!
ps: I don’t usually let Tarun have his way! Or else, we’ll be having oatmeal for the rest of our lives 😉
These look seriously delicious!! Thanks so much for sharing :).
Love this! I definitely need these pancakes in my life. Plus, I always have Greek yogurt lingering around the fridge so this here is just perfect.
These look amazing! I make almond poppy seed pancakes a lot but I’ve not yet tried lemon poppy seed. I love that these have yogurt in them. I’m sure they are so moist and delicious. Need to pin and try these, thanks!
I made these for breakfast this morning and got rave reviews! I only had white flour on hand, so that’s what I used. They were soooo good. Definitely adding into my breakfast rotation!
oooh, I’m headed to the store today, I’m looking for this flour! thanks Maria, and those pancakes are dreamy sounding!
These pancakes look scrumptious! Haha I totally love that you snuck the whole wheat flour in these too, I do the same withy hubby and my toddler. They will thank us down the road for keeping them healthy for as long as we can:) Thanks for the great recipe :))
We both make yogurt pancakes! 🙂 I love lemon poppyseed anything; it was always my favorite growing up.
Great pancakes! We love them. The best lemon poppy seed pancake’s recipe ever!!!
I just made these using a lemon from the backyard! They were wonderful. Thanks for a great recipe.
I have individual greek blueberry yogurts do u think that will work? Blueberry and lemon go together but its extra liquid
I made these today! I didn’t have whole wheat flour so used All Purpose, didn’t have yoghourt so used homemade buttermilk and they turned out fantastic! Thank you for another wonderful & delicious recipe! PS-They are gorgeous with blueberry jam!
I finally made these. Although they tasted good, they were heavy. What is the secret to making them light and fluffy?
Thank you.
I just made these for Sunday morning breakfast and they were absolutely delish! Fabulous recipe. Your beautiful photo inspired me.
Hi Maria & Josh,
I just discovered your blog and let me tell you, I am loving the recipes that you have guys have posted here. I am a food enthusiast and love to experiment new recipes. This wk’end we have organized a brunch and I am going to try to make the lemon poppy seed yogurt pancakes. However, being a vegetarian, what would you suggest we use instead of eggs? Would love to hear from you.
Thanks,
Dhaval.
just made these for breakfast for the 2nd time! i used flax seed as an egg substitute and they’re a little gummy, but still good. what really took the 2nd batch too the next level was some added fresh blueberries – omg delicious!
I accidentally left out the Canola oil… these were still tender, fluffy and delicious!
Yummy recipe! Lemon poppyseed is a favorite combination of the hubs and mine, so this is a refreshing take on regular pancakes. I can’t eat much wheat, but I made a batch for the hubs so he has ready-to-go breakfasts for the next few days. I left out any sweetener and used only buttermilk for the liquid. He likes his pancakes on the less-sweet side but stacked with plenty of butter and maple syrup. I imagine these would be super tasty with a blueberry sauce.
Is regular whole wheat flour okay??
I made these pancakes the other day! SO yummy even though I left out the poppyseeds because I am a poor college kid. Here’s the link in case you’d like to read! http://thecuppycakes.tumblr.com/post/67328018403/lemon-pancakes-minus-the-poppyseeds
this recipe produces my favorite of all time pancakes, thank you so much. My daughter is a huge fan of poppy seeds so she’s very happy.
Is there any way to substitute oat flour for the whole wheat flour???
I am NOT often found in the kitchen, but have recently started trying to cook more. This was a wonderfully simple recipe and tasted DELICIOUS – thank you! I actually made them with ‘real’ whole wheat (not white whole wheat) flour because I had it in the house (no idea why I had it…), and my husband didn’t even notice. My 2-yr old loved them as well. Bonus – zesting the lemon is a little bit of an arm workout (if you’re like me and don’t do any real workouts!)
I’m going to make these soon. But, here’s what I’ll do differently: Plain yogurt & vanilla yogurt are the same price at the store. I’ll use vanilla instead of plain & reduce sugar added to just 1 tablespoon along with just a half teaspoon of vanilla.
Thank you for the White Whole Wheat flour tip. I offered to make pancakes last weekend and my husband (Captain picky-pants) said, “Whole wheat, no thanks,” and got out the Frosted Flakes. I am so going to try the switch. He also loves lemon poppy seed, so this could really make his morning.
Used chia seeds instead of poppy seeds. You can’t tell the difference and you get the added benefit chia seeds bring to your life. Pancakes are really delicious!
I love using chia seeds too! Glad you liked the pancakes!
What is the serving size for this recipe?
Hi
I made your lemon poppyseed pancakes this morning. Im very disappointed in how they came out, not enough of the lemon taste, even after I added some lemon extract (I know, it’s not in the recipe) and two more tsp of lemon zest. I did everything as stated, idk why but I’m tasting like a flour or powder taste after eating them. Any advice on how to make these come out better?
Just made this recipe to get rid of the last Meyer lemons! It was pretty good! I can’t wait to try it with real lemons, not the Meyer ones I discovered I really don’t like!
These are amazing tasting pancakes with a really delightfully light texture!!