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Cottage Cheese Pancakes

March 7, 2023 by Gina +

Cottage cheese is really having a moment and I am here for it! I love finding new ways to enjoy it and these cottage cheese pancakes are one of my favorites. I mean who doesn’t love pancakes?

I’m usually a savory person but sometimes I crave something sweet. These protein cottage cheese pancakes are the perfect sweeter way to start the day. Packed with protein and delicious flavor, these pancakes will satisfy your cravings. Plus, they’re super easy to make! They also make a great snack. One of my favorites for the kids. Can’t beat a protein snack for little ones, or adults.

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These cottage cheese pancakes are light and fluffy, but still have enough protein to keep you full until lunch. Plus, theyโ€™re super easy to make and can be topped with any of your favorite toppings. Simple ingredients, eggs, flour, cottage cheese, baking powder, and a little maple syrup make these a breeze to whip up.

If I still haven’t sold you on adding cottage cheese to your pancakes, I can assure you it doesn’t taste like a plate of cottage cheese.

INGREDIENTS


  • Cottage cheese
  • Eggs
  • Flour
  • Maple syrup
  • Baking powder
  • Pinch of salt

HOW TO MAKE COTTAGE CHEESE PANCAKES


  • Add the cottage cheese, eggs, vanilla, monk fruit sweetener (or maple syrup) to a blender. Blend until completely smooth. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt. Pulse a few times just until combined. Do not overblend.
  • OR pour the blended cottage cheese in a bowl and stir in the dry ingredients.
  • Let the batter rest for 5 minutes while you heat a lightly greased skillet or griddle over medium-low heat. Scoop about 1/4 cup batter for each pancake onto the hot skillet. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, or until bubbles form on top and the edges look set. Flip carefully and cook another 1 to 2 minutes until golden and cooked through.

TIPS AND COMMON QUESTIONS FOR PANCAKES


  • Use a small curd, creamier cottage cheese. This will give the best results.
  • Also good to use a non-stick pan and make sure it’s buttered well.
  • How do I store leftovers? Keep them in refrigerator and warm them to serve again. My kids actually like them cold for a snack.

MORE RECIPES LIKE THIS


  • Almond flour banana pancakes
  • Healthier Baked French Toast
  • Pumpkin Coffee Cake

Cottage Cheese Pancakes

Creamy, protein packed cottage cheese pancakes
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Prep Time 5 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Servings: 10 small/medium pancakes
Course: Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup small curd cottage cheese full-fat or low-fat
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons granulated monk fruit sweetener or 2 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 1 tablespoon milk only if using monk fruit instead of syrup
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • Pinch of sal

Method
 

  1. Add the cottage cheese, eggs, vanilla, monk fruit sweetener (or maple syrup), and milk if using to a blender. Blend until completely smooth.
  2. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt. Pulse a few times just until combined. Do not overblend.
  3. OR pour blended cottage cheese into a bowl and stir in dry ingredients.
  4. Let the batter rest for 5 minutes while you heat a lightly greased skillet or griddle over medium-low heat.
  5. Scoop about 1/4 cup batter for each pancake onto the hot skillet.
  6. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, or until bubbles form on top and the edges look set.
  7. Flip carefully and cook another 1 to 2 minutes until golden and cooked through.
  8. Serve warm with fruit, butter, syrup, nut butter, or yogurt
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

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Comments

  1. Carole says

    March 22, 2023 at 8:54 am

    How many eggs?

    • Gina says

      March 22, 2023 at 11:18 am

      3 eggs ๐Ÿ™‚ updated the recipe, thanks

      • Carole says

        March 22, 2023 at 4:01 pm

        Thanks! The recipe seems to be for meatloaf now. The “jump to recipe link” goes to a sausage pasta recipe.

        • Gina says

          April 10, 2023 at 7:20 pm

          All fixed now Carol! Thanks for pointing that out

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Theyโ€™re packed with protein from eggs, sausage, cottage cheese, and cheese. 

Ingredients:
1 lb breakfast sausage
4 eggs (scrambled)
1 egg (mixed in)
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup low-fat shredded cheese
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Salt + pepper

Cook the breakfast sausage in a skillet until browned. Push to one side and scramble 4 eggs.

Add sausage + eggs to a bowl with 1 more egg, cottage cheese, shredded cheese, flour, baking powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Mix until combined.

Scoop with a 2 tbsp scoop onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Bake at 375ยฐF for about 18 minutes, or until golden. Makes about 15 biscuits.

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Ingredients:
2 slices bacon
1 small chicken breast, pounded thin
All-purpose chicken seasoning
Freshly grated mozzarella cheese
Sandwich roll
Mayonnaise
1/2 avocado, mashed with salt
Lettuce
Tomato

Directions:
Cook the bacon in a skillet until crispy, then remove and set aside. Remove some of the grease from the pan.

Season a thinly pounded chicken breast generously with chicken seasoning and cook in the same pan until golden and cooked through. Once flipped, top with freshly grated mozzarella and let melt.

Spread mayonnaise onto one side of a sandwich roll and mashed salted avocado onto the other side.

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Follow along for easy, family-friendly dinners ๐Ÿค

These healthy chicken Caesar smashburger tacos are one of my favorite easy high-protein dinners lately. Crispy seasoned chicken pressed onto tortillas, topped with Caesar salad and Parmesan. Theyโ€™re quick, flavorful, and so good for busy nights.

Ingredients:
1 lb ground chicken
8 mini tortillas
Salt Pepper Garlic powder
chopped Romaine lettuce
Caesar dressing
Freshly grated Parmesan cheese

Directions:
Press a thin layer of ground chicken onto each tortilla and season generously with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Place chicken side down onto a hot skillet and cook for about 4 minutes until golden and cooked through. Flip and cook the tortilla side for another 2 to 3 minutes until slightly crispy.
Great and Parmesan on top of the chicken. Honey.

Toss chopped romaine with Caesar dressing. Top each taco with the Caesar salad mixture and more parm.

These are crispy, high protein, and so easy to make.

Save this easy dinner recipe for later and follow for more quick meal ideas.
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All the cozy stuffed pepper flavors but turned into a creamy cheesy skillet pasta thatโ€™s so easy for weeknights

Ingredients

12 oz pasta 
1 lb ground Italian chicken sausage or sausage of choice 
1 tbsp olive oil
1 yellow onion diced
3 bell peppers diced
3 cloves garlic minced
2 tsp Italian seasoning
ยฝ tsp salt
ยผ tsp pepper
1ยฝ cups marinara sauce
1 cup blended 
ยพ cup mozzarella cheese
ยผ cup parmesan cheese
2 cups spinach

Instructions

cook pasta until al dente

brown sausage and cook peppers and onion until soft. Add to pasta. 

Blend the cottage cheese and marinara 

Stir the blended sauce and seasoning into the beverage and pasta mixture. 

add pasta spinach and cheese and stir until creamy
If youโ€™ve been trying to make a really good breakf If youโ€™ve been trying to make a really good breakfast burrito at homeโ€ฆ this is the one.

Crispy hashbrown, bacon, creamy avocado, and a soft cheesy egg layer, all wrapped up and toasted until golden. Itโ€™s simple, filling, and always a hit.

How to make it
Cook 1 hashbrown patty until crispy
Cook 2 slices of bacon, then remove and leave a little fat in the pan
Whisk 2 eggs and pour into a nonstick pan, spreading thin
Top with cheese and keep the eggs soft (donโ€™t overcook)
Fold into a rectangle and set aside

Assemble:
Mash 1/2 avocado with a little salt and mix with chopped bacon
Spread onto a warmed bun buntortilla
Add chopped hashbrown and the egg
Fold the sides in, then roll tightly

Tips:
Donโ€™t overfill and make sure everything is tucked in well
Place seam side down in a pan to crisp the tortilla

Serve with hot sauce and youโ€™re done

Save this one for later and follow for more easy meal ideas
One of my favorite things to order out. The Hills One of my favorite things to order out.

The Hillstone Dip Duo dupe. Smoky chipotle pimento cheese, fresh guac, salty tortilla chipsโ€ฆ itโ€™s dangerously good and PERFECT for Cinco de Mayo or any gathering. 

For the chipotle pimento cheese dip, mix together 1 cup freshly shredded sharp cheddar cheese, 1/2 cup Monterey Jack cheese, 1/4 cup mayo, 1/4 cup softened whipped cream cheese, 2 tablespoons plain Greek yogurt, 2 tablespoons diced pimentos, 1 chipotle peppers in adobo (or half if you like it less Smokey)  plus a little adobo sauce, 1 tablespoon finely grated yellow onion, and Lawryโ€™s seasoned salt to taste. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving so the flavors can meld together.  Let all your cheeses come to room temperature so they can blend easier.

For the guacamole, mash together 2 ripe avocados with finely diced onion, cilantro, fresh lime juice, and salt to taste.

Serve both dips side by side with salty tortilla chips @masa_chips

Save this Hillstone dip duo dupe for your next party, game day, or Cinco de Mayo spread
POV: you need a high-protein breakfast that everyo POV: you need a high-protein breakfast that everyone will eat. 

These high protein breakfast biscuits have been on repeat in my house. Theyโ€™re easy, meal prep-friendly, and perfect for busy mornings when you need something you can just grab and go.

Theyโ€™re packed with protein from eggs, sausage, cottage cheese, and cheese. 

Ingredients:
1 lb breakfast sausage
4 eggs (scrambled)
1 egg (mixed in)
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup low-fat shredded cheese
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Salt + pepper

Cook the breakfast sausage in a skillet until browned. Push to one side and scramble 4 eggs.

Add sausage + eggs to a bowl with 1 more egg, cottage cheese, shredded cheese, flour, baking powder, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Mix until combined.

Scoop with a 2 tbsp scoop onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Bake at 375ยฐF for about 18 minutes, or until golden. Makes about 15 biscuits.

These are high protein, freezer-friendly, and perfect for meal prep breakfasts ๐Ÿ™Œ

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