Sometimes you just need a big pile of fluffy pancakes and these healthy wild blueberry cottage cheese pancakes will fill your belly but not your waistline.
Growing up I was pretty die hard french toast. My Uncle Richard taught me to do maple syrup, homemade of course, and then a dusting of powdered sugar which is probably why I ended up with a few cavities but I forgive him. 😉 Once Cade and I got married we started experimenting with breakfast recipes and ended up with our Saturday morning hot breakfast tradition.
Most often it’s crepes, Cade’s nutella crepes to be exact but we also love our melt in your mouth buttermilk pancakes recipe that you’ll see by the comments, it’s the best in the entire world. Seriously.
The problem is, I don’t want to always be packing in the calories with heavier breakfasts so with all of this cottage cheese pancake craze I set out to make a healthier pancake. I can’t even describe sinking your teeth into these pancakes and finding little pockets of fresh blueberries. It’s a taste that can’t be beat!
Ingredients for Cottage Cheese Pancakes
I know when you hear the word “pancakes” you don’t think healthy breakfast, but these pancakes use a couple of different ingredients to make them a healthier choice that traditional pancakes. One pancake is only 16 carbohydrates and 3g of fat with 7g of protein (see the recipe card for the complete nutrition facts). Here is what you will need:
- Old Fashioned Oats: We will blend this up to make oat flour which is higher in fiber, vitamins and mineral than all purpose flour.
- Cottage Cheese: We chose to use the low fat cottage cheese and don’t notice any difference in flavor at all. It’s got great protein!
- Vanilla Extract: adds flavor
- Sugar: adds some sweetness
- Eggs : gives the pancakes structure and rise and using more egg whites keeps the protein high while calories are lower
- Baking Powder: gives the pancakes their fluffiness
- Salt: enhances all the flavors
- Wild Blueberries: Depending on the season, you can use fresh or frozen blueberries. Obviously fresh is preferred but sometimes it’s just not feasible. Wild berries take it from delicious to farm-to-table fresh deliciousness!
The measurements for all the ingredients can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.
How to Make Blueberry Cottage Cheese Pancakes
This pancake recipe is easy and we make most of the recipe in a blender. Here are steps:
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