Recipe Corner: I’m tired of eating eggs for breakfast, what else can I eat?

Many traditional breakfast foods are loaded with mostly carbohydrates, start your morning right with this protein pancake recipe.

INGREDIENTS:

½ cup dry oats

½ cup low fat cottage cheese

1 tsp vanilla

1 egg

2 egg whites

½ tsp cinnamon

 DIRECTIONS:

1. Blend all ingredients in blender.

1. Spray skillet with cooking spray and cook just like "silver dollar" pancakes (3 inch diameter), a few small ones at a time.

1. Top with your favorite fresh fruit!

 NUTRITION

Serving Size 5 pancakes: 337 kcal, 7 gm fat, 32 gm carbs, 4 gm fiber, 31 gm protein (Don’t forget to count carbs for your fruit of choice)

This post was written by Shelley Wishnick RD, CDN, CDE, a registered dietitian with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, a NYS Certified Nutritionist, and Certified Diabetes Educator with the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators who provides counseling to those with type 1, type 2, pre-diabetes and gestational diabetes at the Mount Sinai Diabetes Center.