luceeloo
Well-Known Member
For me, Sundays used to be about Pancakes. Back in my pre-diagnosis days my routine breakfast was Special K or something equally as dull, but on a Sunday I used to make those big fluffy american pancakes, cover them with butter and maple syrup.. and the whole family (dogs included) would enjoy them for breakfast. Then Diabetes happened. Since then I've been trying to find the perfect replacement. Many of the low-carb efforts are glorified omlettes with whatever flour of choice in them. However, if I want an omlette, that's what I'd make, right?
Today I've got one step closer to what I'm looking for and thought I'd share the recipe.
This makes up enough for 4 people, which should give you a rough 8g of carbs per serving. (I've calculated this from the back of packets... if anyone knows any different, please correct me!).
Ingredients:
4 medium eggs
3 tablespoons of ground flaxseed
3 tablespoons of ground almonds
1 tablespoon of (oil or melted butter.. whichever you choose... I used Rice Bran Oil)
2 tablespoons of water
Oil or butter for the pan.
Separate the eggs, and whisk the whites until stiff.
Add the flaxseed and ground almonds to the whites, and fold in.
Add the tablespoon of oil to the egg yolks and mix. Then add this to the egg white mix. Fold carefully until it's evenly mixed in. The folding is quite important, because although adding the yolk mix essentially ruins most of that light fluffiness of the beaten whites, you still want to retain some of the air in the mix to make the pancakes fluffier.
At this point I found the mixture to be a bit too stiff for cooking, so I added a couple of tablespoons of water. It also just made the recipe go that bit further.
Heat up the pan, add oil or butter if desired, Then reduce the heat to low and add a ladle of mixture to the pan. I made smaller 3 to 4" rounds, but make them to whatever size you prefer.
Cook slowly until bubbles start to form and burst on the top... then flip.
Serve with butter, cream, yoghurt, berries... whatever you prefer.
I served them with butter and a shake of cinnamon.
This is a more decadent breakfast for me - currently aiming for 20-30g or less of carbs a day, but I know that my meals for the rest of the day are going to be very low indeed (plus, the dogs begged more than 1/2 a pancake from me... so if I factor that it, it wasn't a bad weekend brekkie lol).
Today I've got one step closer to what I'm looking for and thought I'd share the recipe.
This makes up enough for 4 people, which should give you a rough 8g of carbs per serving. (I've calculated this from the back of packets... if anyone knows any different, please correct me!).
Ingredients:
4 medium eggs
3 tablespoons of ground flaxseed
3 tablespoons of ground almonds
1 tablespoon of (oil or melted butter.. whichever you choose... I used Rice Bran Oil)
2 tablespoons of water
Oil or butter for the pan.
Separate the eggs, and whisk the whites until stiff.
Add the flaxseed and ground almonds to the whites, and fold in.
Add the tablespoon of oil to the egg yolks and mix. Then add this to the egg white mix. Fold carefully until it's evenly mixed in. The folding is quite important, because although adding the yolk mix essentially ruins most of that light fluffiness of the beaten whites, you still want to retain some of the air in the mix to make the pancakes fluffier.
At this point I found the mixture to be a bit too stiff for cooking, so I added a couple of tablespoons of water. It also just made the recipe go that bit further.
Heat up the pan, add oil or butter if desired, Then reduce the heat to low and add a ladle of mixture to the pan. I made smaller 3 to 4" rounds, but make them to whatever size you prefer.
Cook slowly until bubbles start to form and burst on the top... then flip.
Serve with butter, cream, yoghurt, berries... whatever you prefer.
I served them with butter and a shake of cinnamon.
This is a more decadent breakfast for me - currently aiming for 20-30g or less of carbs a day, but I know that my meals for the rest of the day are going to be very low indeed (plus, the dogs begged more than 1/2 a pancake from me... so if I factor that it, it wasn't a bad weekend brekkie lol).
