This easy Cottage Cheese Pancakes recipe is made in a blender using whole foods, and results in healthier pancakes that still taste amazing! Best of all, they contain 5 grams of protein at just 100 calories each.
Want more pancake recipes? Try Buttermilk Pancakes, Lemon Ricotta Pancakes, German Pancakes, or Strawberry Crepes!
We’ve been making these delicious Cottage Cheese Pancakes for years. In love that they’re protein pancakes with the same great taste and texture of regular pancakes, without flour, canola oil, sugar or butter!
Ingredients Needed:
- Eggs: Adds 12 grams protein.
- Cottage Cheese: Adds 13 grams protein
- Whole Grain Oats: Adds 14 grams protein, 10 grams fiber.
- Baking powder.
- Water.
- Olive Oil. You could substitute coconut oil
- Vanilla extract.
- Cinnamon.
- Protein Powder: Optional to add ½ scoop of protein powder to the batter if you’d like.
How to Make Cottage Cheese Pancakes:
Make Oat Flour: Add oats and baking powder to a blender and blend to make a fine powder.
Blend: Add cottage cheese, eggs, water, vanilla, oil, and cinnamon. Blend until smooth.
Cook: Pour pancakes onto a hot greased griddle then cook until golden on both sides.
Serve warm with fruit and real maple syrup.
Freezing Instructions:
Allow cottage cheese pancakes to cool, then lay them in a single layer on a plate or baking sheet and freeze for 30 minutes (to help keep them from sticking together). Then place them in a freezer safe container and freeze for up to 3 months. Warm from frozen in the microwave.
More Healthy Breakfast Favorites:
- Green Smoothie
- Vanilla Protein Shake
- Chocolate Protein Shake
- 5 Minute Whole Wheat Pancakes
- Breakfast Taquitos
- Skinny Banana Bread Muffins
- Strawberry Overnight Oats
- Easy Healthy Granola
- Instant Pot Yogurt
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Recipe
Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese
- 2 large eggs (or substitue a flax-egg)
- 1/2 cup water , milk, or dairy-free milk
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- dash of cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat a hot griddle or skillet over medium heat.
- Add oats and baking powder to a food processor or blender and blend until they're as fine as flour.
- Add the cottage cheese, eggs, water, vanilla, oil and cinnamon and blend until smooth.
- Pour about ¼ cup batter onto griddle to form pancake. Cook on one side until bubbles begin to appear on the surface of the pancake. Flip and cook on the other side until golden.
- Serve with fresh fruit and real maple syrup, or a low sugar syrup.
Notes
Macros Recipe Adaptation
low fat cottage cheese, 1 scoop Clean Simple Eats Vanilla Protein Powder, ½ cup water.Per Serving Amount
127.5 grams batterMacros
198kcal, Fat: 5g, Carbs: 23g, Protein: 14g (serves 4) | MFP: Cottage Cheese Pancakes (TBFS Macros)Nutrition
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*I originally shared this post February 2015. Updated January 2021 and May 2023.
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Do you have a favorite protein powder that you recommend?
Lauren loves clean simple eats. you can get it on Amazon or their website!
This was a fantastic recipe! The batter was the perfect consistency and the recipe yielded exactly 7 pancakes. I really enjoyed the taste of these, not the typical heavy, dense consistency of other protein pancake recipes. Will definitely be a regular in my house! Thanks!
Delicious!😃😋😋😋
These pancakes are delicious. I added some chopped pecans for texture.
WOW they were delicious loved the texture and the hint of cinnamon was great already passed on the recipe to others. So easy to make no one would ever know they were make with oatmeal and cottage cheese. Will be my go to recipe. Thx so much👍👏
Just wanted to advise, don’t use the Ninja smoothie blender for this- not big enough! Since I could not mix all the ingredients at once my first few pancakes were quite thin, and the remainder quite thick. I can appreciate that these have a nice texture, and with no wheat flour. I found them quite tasteless so I would suggest a lot more seasonings or toppings, either sweet or savory would be great. I put a little maple apple boursin, Saskatoon berry jam, and hemp seeds on top.
A good recipe to adjust to taste.
I made breakfast for dinner tonight with these pancakes and there was no complaining.