These Cottage Cheese Pancakes are made healthier with whole wheat flour, cottage cheese & the sweetener of your choice! Fluffy & delicious – impressive!
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Cottage Cheese in Pancakes!? Yes!
Stop, don’t go! These pancakes are totally delicious – you’d never suspect they were a “better for you” pancake made with cottage cheese & whole wheat flour!
I know cottage cheese doesn’t sound like a usual pancake ingredient – but it works, and it works well. Using straight whole wheat flour in pancakes can be tricky. The cottage cheese not only helps make these pancakes moist, but it also helps give them a fluffy, spongey texture.
Looking for a few more “better for you” pancake recipes? Check out these Flaxseed Pancakes & Banana Oat Pancakes
Ingredients & Instructions
No one ever guesses that cottage cheese is one of the main ingredients in this recipe!
You’ll make these Cottage Cheese Pancakes like you would any other pancake recipe. Whisk together ingredients & pour portions onto a hot griddle.
Although you may see traces of cottage cheese in the pancakes – you’ll taste no curds. They seem to magically melt into the pancake : )
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 Swerve 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 ♥
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 Swerve or 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 🙂