Pancakes made healthy with whole wheat flour, cottage cheese & the sweetener of your choice! Fluffy & delicious – impressive!
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Stop, don’t go! These pancakes are totally delicious – you’d never suspect they were a healthy pancake made with cottage cheese & whole wheat flour!
Recently I’ve been working on recipes for a diabetic in my family. Pancakes were definitely something they missed, so I set out to make some good low-carb pancakes.
I made these Flax Pancakes (click for recipe) and they have been a HUGE hit from all that have tried them. I must say, they’re pretty darn impressive for being just about carb-free.
I make a few savory style pancakes with cottage cheese and decided to try them out as a more sweet breakfast pancake.
Success! The pancake lovers were in love ♥
Ingredients
No one ever guesses that cottage cheese is one of the main ingredients in this recipe.
Although you may see traces of cottage cheese in the pancakes – you’ll taste no curds. They seem to magically melt into the pancake : )
Oh, and no one guesses that there is no all-purpose flour nor any sugar.
Sweetener Options
That leads us into the discussion of alternative & artificial sweeteners.
I’ve (personally) never cared for artificial sweeteners and I don’t use them for myself.
Now that I find myself cooking for a diabetic I’ve been experimenting with every artificial & alternative sweetener under the sun. I just can’t get thru them all – and every time I go to the store I find a new one. The selection is awesome but exhausting!
All that blabbing leads to this – use whatever sweetener you’d like. I’ve been using Sweet Leaf sweetener, so that’s what I used here. So far this has been one of my preferred low calorie & low carb sweeteners. It doesn’t have much of a funky taste and a little goes a long way. I actually use less than what the bag recommends.
If you have no dietary restrictions than go ahead and use good old granulated sugar. I’d suggest 1 -2 tablespoon depending on taste.
Pancakes for everyone! Enjoy!
Amanda ♥
Have some left over cottage cheese? Check out these Herbed Cottage Cheese Biscuits from Tastes of Homemade.
Healthy Whole Wheat Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs beaten
- 1/4 cup whole milk/4% cottage cheese
- 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon SweetLeaf Sugar Leaf sweetener or preferred artificial sweetener or 1-2 tablespoons sugar
- butter about 1 tablespoon
Instructions
- Beat eggs.
- Whisk in cottage cheese and remaining ingredients.
- Add butter to griddle or frying pan and heat to medium heat.
- Pour out pancakes in about ¼ cup portions – I use a ladle.
- Cook for 3 minutes or until set and golden brown, flip and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy. I serve with butter and an assortment of syrups & jams. Sugar free syrup, real maple syrup, chocolate syrup….
- Makes about 4 pancakes – 1 generous serving or 2 light servings.
Using cottage cheese in pancakes is a great idea, Amanda! They look wonderfully moist, and I like the white specks. I play around with unconventional ways to use cottage cheese too. It’s such an underused ingredient.
Thanks so much Thao!
I love using cottage cheese in all kinds of foods…but only the 4% kind. I can’t stand the skim varieties 🙂
I would love to try your pancakes. Never thought of putting cottage cheese in pancakes, it looks like it made the pancakes really nice and moist. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Dawn! Hope you enjoy them 🙂