A nutrition specialist recommended that I include an interesting dish in my diet - oatmeal. This is an alternative to regular oatmeal, which allows you to perfectly diversify your breakfasts.
The classic recipe excludes ingredients such as sugar and wheat flour, which increase calorie content and reduce the benefits of the recipe. Oatmeal pancakes can be a good afternoon snack and, compared to regular oatmeal, are more convenient to take with you.
Oatmeal is healthy, rich in protein, fiber and has a medium glycemic index. This product is recommended for those who want to lose weight, eat healthy or watch their figure - one serving of oatmeal, prepared according to the classic recipe, contains only 100-150 kilocalories.
What is oatmeal
Oatmeal is an interesting find for those who prefer a tasty, nutritious and healthy breakfast. It is based on oatmeal, which can be used alone or together with bran and oatmeal.
Most often, flakes under the Hercules brand are used for the recipe, but to make the pancake tender in taste, the flakes are ground well. Some housewives buy already crushed cereals, which are sold under the brand “Nezhnye”. To prepare oatmeal pancakes, you can use not only oatmeal, but also wheat or rice grains; the results are also tasty and healthy.
There is also a very tasty recipe for an oatmeal intestinal scrub.
How to eat pancakes and lose weight?
Most people are afraid to give up their usual diet, believing that healthy food a priori cannot be tasty. A beautiful figure means giving up your favorite sweets and traditional Russian pancakes, associated with your beloved grandmother and the joyful holiday of Maslenitsa. This opinion is wrong.
Proper nutrition does not mean giving up tasty food. The main idea of this lifestyle is replacing familiar dishes with their healthy counterparts. One such alternative is the famous oatmeal pancake.
You can successfully lose weight with such a tasty dish because it:
- provides all the benefits of oatmeal, improving metabolic processes;
- quickly satisfies hunger (it is very problematic to overeat such pancakes);
- eliminates the “orange peel” by destroying fat deposits.
Oatmeal: classic recipe
Oatmeal is a recipe for proper nutrition, which includes oatmeal, eggs and milk, which is why this dish immediately replaces both porridge and omelet. It’s quite simple to prepare; a step-by-step photo will help tell you all the intricacies of a nutritious breakfast.
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp. l. oatmeal;
- 30 ml milk;
- 1 chicken egg;
- salt to taste.
Preparation:
- Pour the cereal flakes into a small bowl, add milk and leave for 10 minutes.
- In another container, beat the egg with salt, and then add the flakes to the egg mixture and stir everything thoroughly.
- Pour the resulting dough into a heated frying pan and fry the pancake on both sides until golden brown.
- Place the finished oatmeal pancake on a plate, choose any filling for it and serve.
Advice!
For variety, oatmeal can be prepared using a mixture of different flakes, wheat bran or flaxseed flour, which is often used in weight loss.
Oatmeal with banana and cheese
Today there are many options for preparing such a breakfast, but most importantly, the recipe does not use sugar, which contributes to excess weight gain, and low-fat milk, which, if desired, can be replaced with plain water.
Ingredients:
- 40 g oatmeal;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 25 g hard cheese;
- 4 tbsp. l. milk;
- half a banana.
Preparation:
- Pour the flakes into a blender container and grind the cereal until you obtain oatmeal.
- Pour the flour into a bowl, beat in the egg and pour in the milk drink, using a whisk, mix the ingredients until smooth.
- Pour the dough onto the hot surface of the frying pan and bake the pancake under the lid for three minutes.
- While the pancake is frying, cut the banana into slices and into thin slices into the cheese.
- As soon as the pancake is browned on one side, turn it over, put cheese on one edge, and slices of fruit on top, cover and wait exactly a minute.
- If the cheese has melted, cover the filling with the other half of the pancake and transfer it to a plate.
On a note!
For this recipe, it is better to buy long-cooked oatmeal, since such a product contains a large number of dietary fibers and microelements.
Oatmeal with cottage cheese
Oatmeal pancake is a universal dish for proper nutrition, because such a snack can be served with any filling. So you can take a step-by-step recipe with a photo just with cottage cheese or a combination of curd product with fresh or dried fruits, berries or herbs.
Ingredients:
- 100 g oatmeal;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 tbsp. l. granulated sugar;
- a pinch of salt;
- cottage cheese;
- raspberries (other berries);
- mint leaves.
Preparation:
- Using a blender, turn oatmeal into flour, beat in eggs, pour in milk, add granulated sugar and salt, stir everything thoroughly.
- Drizzle a little oil into a hot frying pan, pour in the dough, and bake the pancake on both sides.
- Place cottage cheese on one half of the pancake, then cover with the filling with the free half.
Place the finished oatmeal with cottage cheese on a plate, garnish with raspberries and mint leaves and serve. It turns out very tasty, beautiful and most importantly, healthy.
Lenten pancakes with honey
Photo: vkusovenok.pro
Of course, honey can be used to serve pancakes, but we suggest adding it directly to the dough.
You will need:
500 ml of water, 200 g of flour, 7 g of dry yeast, a pinch of salt, 30 ml of vegetable oil, 30 g of honey.
Preparation:
Heat the water to 30-40 degrees, pour out half and mix it with the yeast. Add honey and a pinch of salt there. Slowly add the remaining flour and leave the dough warm for 20 minutes. Add the rest of the water to the dough and bake the pancakes.
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Oatmeal with apple
Delicious oatmeal pancakes are also made with the addition of apples; you can also add cinnamon or vanilla for flavor.
Ingredients:
- 40 g oatmeal;
- 3 tbsp. l. milk;
- 1 egg;
- 1 apple;
- 2 tbsp. l. yogurt;
- 1-2 tsp. honey
Preparation:
- Pour the milk into the container, beat in the egg and add the cereal, which we first grind into a coffee grinder to make flour, shake with a whisk.
- Grate any apple directly into the dough, no need to peel the skin, mix.
- From the resulting dough, fry a pancake in a frying pan and then put it on a plate.
- Cut it in half, grease one half with natural yoghurt, pour honey and cover with the other half.
Advice!
For variety, you can also prepare oatmeal pancakes with apple and banana, cottage cheese and even peanut butter.
Lenten pancakes with buckwheat flour
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It is always better to dilute buckwheat flour with regular flour so that the pancakes do not crumble.
You will need:
3 glasses of water, 1 glass of buckwheat flour, 1 glass of wheat flour, 1 tsp.
salt, a pinch of sugar, 5 g of dry yeast, vegetable oil. Preparation:
Mix half a glass of buckwheat flour with half a glass of water. Bring another glass and a half to a boil and then gradually pour it in. Add yeast, salt and sugar, and gradually add regular flour to the dough. Slowly add the remaining water until it reaches the consistency of liquid sour cream. Leave the dough for an hour and fry the pancakes in oil.
Oatmeal pancake for breakfast with ham
Children will definitely like oatmeal with a sweet filling, but men should prepare a more hearty breakfast with ham and cheese.
Ingredients:
- 3 tbsp. l. oat bran;
- 1 large egg;
- 1 tbsp. l. soft cottage cheese;
- 1 tbsp. l. corn flour;
- spices to taste.
For filling:
- ham;
- Bell pepper;
- hard cheese;
- greenery.
Preparation:
- Grind oatmeal in a coffee grinder and place it in a blender bowl, beat in an egg, add the curd product, add corn flour and salt, and mix.
- Cut the ham and bell peppers into small cubes, grate the cheese, and finely chop the herbs.
- Place the dough on a heated frying pan, level it and fry.
- As soon as the pancake is browned on the bottom, turn it over and lightly dry it.
- Place ham, pepper on one side, sprinkle with cheese and herbs.
- Cover the filling with the second half of the pancake and heat until the cheese melts.
Advice!
To make the oatmeal more juicy and tasty, you can add a little butter to the recipe.
Other sweet filling options:
Fillings for lovers of sweets are not so varied, since oatmeal is still a low-calorie and healthy version of the food, so not all sweets are welcome. Basically, the fillings are limited to the presence of a creamy lubricant of the pancake - this can be soft cottage cheese, peanut butter or yogurt, and the fillings can be any berries and fruits. For example:
- Strawberries, dark chocolate pieces and cream cheese.
- Pear slices with apple, cinnamon, yogurt.
- Figs with cottage cheese.
- Apricots, peaches with soft cheese.
Variations of sweet oatmeal pancakes will especially appeal to children and adults with a sweet tooth.
But oatmeal does not have to be made with fillings; without filling, as a flatbread, it will be an excellent healthy replacement for bread. It can be eaten for lunch and dinner as a snack with the main dish.
In general, all the excitement around the preparation of oatmeal pancakes is caused for a reason. Once you get this classic version of the dish, you'll understand why. This is a real find for those who want to eat healthy and varied without spending a lot of time and money.
Oatmeal without eggs
Oatmeal flour does not have as much gluten as wheat flour, so to make a pancake, eggs are added to the dough. But some are wondering if there is a recipe for proper nutrition that will step by step allow you to bake oatmeal pancakes without eggs.
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp. l. oatmeal;
- 1 tbsp. l. ground flax seeds;
- water;
- a pinch of baking powder;
- salt or sweetener.
Preparation:
- Pour oatmeal and flax seeds into a bowl. If the filling for the pancake is sweet, then add any sweetener; for other fillings, salt and pepper.
- Fill everything with water, mix and leave for 10 minutes so that the flakes swell.
- Afterwards, using a submerged blender, grind the ingredients, then add baking powder or soda mixed with citric acid and stir.
- We bake the oatmeal pancake in a well-heated frying pan, to ensure that the pancake does not burn, grease the surface with oil.
- Place the finished pancake on a plate and serve with any filling, for example, regular yogurt and strawberries.
On a note!
If the dough uses eggs, then it is better to put only the whites, which are beaten separately and then mixed with the rest of the ingredients, so the oatmeal will turn out more fluffy.
