Let’s talk about little pancakes packed full of flavor. These low carb stunners are loaded with creamy cheese and rich, salty pesto-y goodness. What more could you want?
August 5 2016 recipe by Anne Aobadia, photo by Emma Shevtzoff, nutritional review by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE in Recipes, Appetizer, Snack
Let’s talk about little pancakes packed full of flavor. These low carb stunners are loaded with creamy cheese and rich, salty pesto-y goodness. What more could you want?
USMetric
4 servingservings
Ingredients
Topping
- 8 oz. (1 cup) 230 g (240 ml) cream cheese or ricotta cheese
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp green pesto or red pesto
- 2 tbsp 2 tbsp olive oil
- ½ (2 oz.) ½ (55 g) red onion, thinly slicedred onions, thinly sliced
- sea salt
- ground black pepper
Pancakes
- 5 5 eggeggs
- 9 oz. (1¼ cups) 260 g (290 ml) cottage cheese
- 1 pinch 1 pinch salt
- 1 tbsp 1 tbsp ground psyllium husk powder
- butter or coconut oil, for frying
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Instructions
Instructions are for 4 servings. Please modify as needed.
Mix cream cheese, 1 tablespoon olive oil and pesto. Set aside.
Mix eggs, cottage cheese, salt and psyllium husk powder with a hand blender into a smooth batter. Let sit for 10 minutes.
Heat a couple of tablespoons butter or olive oil in a large frying pan on medium heat. Put a few dollops of the cottage cheese batter, maximum 2–3 inches in diameter, in the pan and fry the pancakes for a few minutes on each side.
Serve with a generous amount of cream cheese mixture and a few red onion slices. Top with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Drizzle the remaining olive oil on top.
Tip!
If you don't have any pesto at home, you can add flavor to the cream cheese with other things, like finely chopped chives, fresh herbs or smoked fish roe.
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14 comments
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Deborah
July 9 2016
I clicked to see the rating of pancakes with savory cream topping and somehow it registered that I rated this recipe 4 stars. I did not. This recipe had a five star rating and I was just trying to view the comments.
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Derryn Lowrey
August 2 2016
Havent tried these yet.. however I use Eggbeaters in a bowl with Coconut milk and Truvia, Orange Extract, Cinnamon and sometimes Dark Unsweetened Cocoa as my go-to dessert instead of Grand Marnier Souffle.
Kayla
November 12 2016
I didn't like this very much. I followed the recipe to a T and was disappointed. All the other recipes have been fantastic though!
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Vala
January 22 2017
Don´t like these much so I will stick to mine.
My Sunday morning pancakes are 1c flaxseed flour, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp baking soda, 1tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt, added to 1c runny yogurt, 1egg and finally 1/2 tsp vanilla extract. These I fry in lots of butter and serve with whatever I have to hand. On cheat days real maple syrup does not disappoint.5
Nat
May 28 2017
Not a great recipe. Tried adding almond flour and baking powder to make it thicker. It helped a little.
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Jennifer
September 5 2017
I don't eat eggs and make these pancakes and other bread recipes to get the eggs. I love these pancakes +make them with my stick blender, let them sit for 5mins and then fry in butter. I have them with 1tblsp double cream and a few berries....a real treat! I eat 1 which is 5 carbs which is sufficiently filling and carefully wrap+freeze the others.
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Sherrill
May 6 2018
I had to laugh at the quantity of egg required for some of the serving sizes. How can you add 1/2 , 1/4 or 3/4 of a raw egg to something? Given some of the negative comments above & the impossible egg quantities, I certainly won't be trying this recipe. It looks yummy, so perhaps keep the topping, and replace the batter with one of the other ones on the site? I have to say, though, that all the recipes I've tried from this website so far have been great - easy to execute & really tasty. ?
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Chris
January 13 2019
Don't know what I did wrong but mine did not get thick enough to make pancakes. I just scrambled it all up like scrambled eggs. Wasn't too bad.
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Inga
February 10 2019
I add cinnamon and cocoa powder to give it some flavour. Other wise the egg flavour is overwhelming
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Carolina
August 13 2019
where I live we dont have cottage cheese....any substitute i can use for the pancackes?
Reply: #12
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Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor
August 14 2019
where I live we dont have cottage cheese....any substitute i can use for the pancackes?
You can feel free to use any of our other pancake recipes if you don't have the necessary ingredients for this one.
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/recipes/pancakes13
melissavmurray
July 3 2020
If you need less than a whole egg, whip one up in a measuring cup and pour what part you need!
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Reese
October 5 2020
I liked these...however, they were thinner than I expected. I had several leftover so for lunch I roasted a poblano chili, cleaned out the seeds and stem - and made a "sandwich" layered with these two pancakes, poblano, a dollop of sour cream and a dollop of pico de gallo. VERY delicious. Perfect combo of flavors.
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Deeksha
October 16 2020
This look so delicious. Thanks for the recipe.
