Fantastic & Healthy Oatmeal Recipe
Hi everyone!!
Just a quick catch up on what I’m up to, plus I share a new discovery for an absolutely FANTASTIC oatmeal recipe (and I know how much you guys have loved my oatmeal recipes in the past, so just WAIT til you try THIS one!! mm mm MMMMM!!).
Its chock full of protein and is great for post-workout, pre-workout, breakfast, dinner, whenever!!! Any time is a good time for oatmeal!!
Enjoy:
So, here’s the recipe again (courtesy of my fabulous beach pal and fellow fitness fanatic Rod):
Oatmeal Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Equal Parts (ie, 1 cup/1 cup/1 cup):
Regular (preferably organic) Raw Rolled Oats (oatmeal)
Non Fat Cottage Cheese
Eggs (or Egg whites, but why chuck out all the nutrition, I say), preferably Free Range, Organic
Plop the whole mess into a blender. Blend for about a minute, enough to grind up the oatmeal… this will make a pasty mixture… sounds delicious so far huh? LOL
Cook ’em just like regular pancakes: heat the griddle, pour some mixture in the pan, wait til it looks dry around the edges and is showing bubbles/air pockets in the middle, flip. Simple Simon!!
According to Rod, it goes great with butter (do yourself a favour and try to find some of the raw milk variety) and Maple Syrup (prefereably organic, right? seeing a theme or pattern here yet?), but I know that they also go great with just organic honey or your favourite All-Fruit Spread (I like raspberry).
I haven’t tried THIS yet but it just occurred to me that you could probably even add banana chunks or blueberries to the mixture before you cook it, too (after the blending, I mean)!!
mmmmm…. that’s what I’ll try next!!! Can’t wait!
Okay, so the recipe above I discovered from Rod, but I’ve also got another HUGE, fantastic resource with LOTS of great nutrition information right down the same alley…
Mike Geary (who, as you all know is one of my all-time favourite fitness and nutrition professionals) has just released a fantastic new nutrition book called Fat Burning Kitchen.
I love it!!
There’s a never ending supply of fantastic tricks and tips about healthy foods to help you (and me) burn fat faster and stay super healthy!!!
If you liked this recipe I just shared, then I highly recommend this book.
Check it out!
Fat Burning Kitchen by Mike Geary
…and I know you’re all anxiously waiting for me to get finished talking about food so we can all listen to today’s Workout Song of the Day!! LOL.
Can you tell I’m having fun today?
Anyway, without further ado, here it is:
Workout Song of the Day – BLONDIE – Atomic
(this song is great for Cardio, which, for me as you guys all know by now, is almost always some form of running)
Love it? BUY IT. Its cheap … like what? $0.99 or $0.79 or some ridiculously low price! Don’t ya love the world of the music download? So easy!!
Anyway gang, have a GREAT week. Its full of promise, so lets make sure it keeps that promise!! HA!
Over ‘n out til next time.
Girlwithnoname
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June 15th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Gonna try the pancakes. Love your vlogs!!
June 15th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
thanks Jay. You’ll love ’em. :-)
June 16th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Hi Jackie –
Thanks for sharing this recipe. Sounds interesting adding cottage cheese. Thank Rod too. I kinda agree with eating the whole egg concept also. I think many people avoid the yolk because of the cholesterol talk a while ago. The thing is there’s more than enough lecithin in an egg to counter all of it’s cholesterol and then some.
When I was doing heavy workouts some years back I was doing things like protein drinks in the blender. I’d always throw in at least 2 raw eggs and my bad cholesterol LDLs dropped. Keep up the good work :)
Thanks – John a.k.a affiliatetips
June 16th, 2009 at 10:16 am
yes, it really is too bad eggs wound up with a bad rap. they are pretty much a perfect food, so much nutrition!
awesome comment. thanks John…
June 16th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
This recipe is genius!
The thing that’s always annoyed me about oatmeal is how to add protein and have it still taste nice …
That’s why I particularly like your egg and oatmeal recipe.
Now I get the goodness of cottage cheese AND eggs … GENIUS!
I can’t wait for the weekend (I’ll make some up for Sunday breakfast!)
I’m thinking mixed berries and a little honey on mine :)
Great post!
June 16th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
HAHAHA!! FG, you KNOW there’s already a ton of protein IN oatmeal right? LOL. Of course its not “complete” protein, but still!!
let me know how you like them… oh never mind, I know you’ll LOVE them!!
:-)
June 16th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
This is similar to another recipe I used to make:
http://www.recipezaar.com/Quick-Oatmeal-Egg-Pancake-223534
Yours uses steel cut oats instead. I think I’m going to try a variation on your recipe, since I don’t like cottage cheese & I have some ricotta in the fridge I need to use up, and try this with rolled oats and ricotta and eggs. I’m a bit afraid to put steel cut oats in my bender?
June 16th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
WHOA!! MAJOR REVISION TO RECIPE!!! LOL. DAMN. I meant rolled oats. I’m changing my post right now. sorry everyone. It will probably work with steel cut oats too, the blender chops the heck out of it, but yep, true enough, I’m using rolled oats here!!
apologies guys!!!
June 18th, 2009 at 11:35 am
I always make my oatmeal in water. Never have I mixed anything but lingonberries to it. Lots of vitamins and very little fat, so I don’t have to exercise so long to burn calories.
Sometimes I make soy milk out of soy beans and that leaves me lots of soy pulp. That pulp is good raw material for pancakes.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:39 am
thanks Jake (hey, that’s my nickname!). You really outta try the pancakes, they really are delicious. Interesting about the soy… don’t get ME started on soy tho, I personally believe it to be evil for many reasons, gmo being the biggest, estrogen mimicking being another. But, if it works for you, awesome!!
and don’t be afraid of a little fat. Your body needs fat to function properly. just make sure its the good fats, not the bad stuff.
thanks for the comment.
J
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:19 am
Thanks for the recipe! Bookmarked your site – I used to be a personal trainer, years back…
June 23rd, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Love the pancakes, going to add a banana and some cinnamon tomorrow. They are addicting.
June 24th, 2009 at 12:21 am
ooo!! lemme know how THAT goes!!! :-) tried it with pureed blueberries tonight… not bad. tasty, just harder to keep it from burning… of course, as usual my attention was divided so maybe that was all my fault, not the batter. haha. thanks for the post Jay.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Hmmm – must work better if I use dry oats and not cooked oatmeal…
I’ll try again…
June 29th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
HAHAHA!! OMG… Yes, much better with dry oats (I could have sworn I wrote “RAW” in that recipe!!!).. try again and let us know how it turns out!!!
August 4th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I tried your recipe this morning. I used a little less than 1/2 cup of oats..same with the cottage cheese, 1 egg, splenda packet, and almond extract. For a topping I just sprayed some Smart Balance 0 calorie Butter Spray on it. Turned out good! I haven’t had pancakes in years because of the calories and normally non-healthy aspect of it, so this is great. I will definately put this in the breakfast rotation. Next time maybe with chopped strawberries and vanilla extract.
Oh, and I just mixed the batter up with a spoon. Turned out good and saved me from having to wash my blender. :)
p.s. I was quite satiated for over 3 hrs after eating my 2 pancakes.
August 4th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Karen, you and I are going to have to have a little talk about the evils of Splenda and SPRAY ON BUTTER!??!?!? OMG!! I’m pleading with you to read your ingredients lists on those two items!! :-) Seriously evil stuff. I swear by just using some AllFruit (raspberry) spread (aka: jam)… its delicious.
also, you just stirred it up? so the oats stayed the same shape? I didn’t realize it would work without whipping the oatmeal up into little tiny bits thereby making a batter similar to the other type of pancake batter. Will have to try that sometime.
Glad you like the recipe. It really does rock!!
GWNN
August 9th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Oh really? Spenda and spray on butter is bad? crud. Yes, I just stirred it good. You still saw like some cottage cheese bits in there, but it was totally battery and looked like a pancake when cooked. :)
November 26th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I have been making protein pancakes for the past 2 years and love them !
Try adding a few more ingredients and they will be even more delicious:
1C oatmeal
5-6 egg whites ( I do usually just use whites when I make these)may need to add to this depending how thin you like them
1/2C no salt added cottage cheese
1 – 2 tsp baking powder (makes them fluffier)
2 scoops vanilla whey protein powder
cinnamon
ground flax seed
wheat germ
pure vanilla extract
sometimes i put this all in the blender or just stir in a bowl but they outcome are a little thicker pancake if just stirred.
This makes about 16-20 pancakes (use a 1/4C measuring cup to scoop it) Package them up and freeze them for later.
Can top these with some plain greek yogurt and berries
for a postwork out snack take 2 pancakes , spread some almond butter and sliced bananas…yummmm
let me know what you think
November 26th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
sounds delish… I may have to try the banana/almond butter combo tonight!! thanks for the awesome ideas!!
GWNN
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:07 pm
OMG!!!! I LOVE pancakes but can not eat them anymore bc I found out about six months ago that I have an auto-immune disease called Hashimoto’s that affects the thyroid. People with this disease often have gluten intolerance (which I do) and should never eat corn (which most people, and doctors don’t know). So needless to say I am super stoked to try this! Thank you thank you thank you. I came online to find a good oatmeal recipe for dinner tonight and stumbled on your site.
Amazing.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Hey Katie, I’m SO glad you found me. You will LOVE this recipe… I’m so hooked on it I might even have it for dinner tonight too!! LOL.
thanks for the note.
J
September 14th, 2010 at 12:52 am
You should try them with raisins soaked in orange juice (and add some cinnamon to the batter)