Pancakes are one of life’s little gifts in the morning. They’re fluffy and fun and delicious but more often than not, after eating them, I initially feel overly stuffed only to feel hungry less than 2 hours later. I know this is likely because of a lack of fiber, protein and fat in traditional pancakes and while regular pancakes are wonderful and fantastic to eat when a craving hits, when it comes to pancakes I consume in my day-to-day life, I’d prefer them to pack a little more of a nutritional punch. And that’s where these bad boys come in.
Helloooo banana bread protein pancakes!
These banana bread protein pancakes are a delicious, healthy and filling breakfast that feels like a special treat, especially if you take the time (it’s not much!) to make them on a busy weekday morning. And a big-time bonus: They were baby and toddler-approved in our house and one of all of our boys’ first favorite foods. I cannot tell you how many batches of these banana bread protein pancakes I made for our boys when they were younger. Thankfully the pancakes continue to be a recipe our boys request now that they’re (almost) all technically big kids and have stronger opinions about what they do and do not like. Banana bread protein pancakes = Like!
If you’d like to give this recipe a try, here’s everything you need to make a batch of banana bread protein pancakes in your house:
- Old Fashioned Oats: These essentially become your “flour” but with more fiber and staying power.
- Banana: The perfect touch of natural sweetness.
- Egg: The nutrient-dense powerhouse that also serves to keep this recipe together
- Cottage Cheese: The ingredient we can thank for the protein in this recipe! And if you hate cottage cheese, you cannot tell it’s in these pancakes, I promise!
- Cinnamon: Adds flavor and makes the pancakes smell amazing!
As written, the below recipe makes a single serving of banana bread protein pancakes but it’s easy enough to double or triple to feed more people.
If you decide to give these banana bread protein pancakes a try, I really hope you enjoy them as much as we do in our house!
Banana Bread Protein Pancakes
Banana Bread Protein Pancakes
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 10 mins
- Yield: 1 serving 1x
Description
Made with banana, oats, cottage cheese, egg and cinnamon, banana bread protein pancakes are an easy, kid-friendly recipe packed with protein — no protein powder required!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/2 banana, mashed
- 1/4 cup cottage cheese
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Spray pan with cooking spray and heat to a medium heat
- Combine all ingredients in a small bowl and blend with an immersion blender until batter is relatively smooth and all ingredients are fully mixed
- Pour batter onto the warm pan to form four medium-sized pancakes
- Allow to cook until edges start to harden, about three minutes
- Flip pancakes and allow to cook until batter is no longer runny, about two more minutes
- Top with syrup and enjoy
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Mmmmm! Love the recipe! ….AND it seems like just yesterday I was hoping that you’d get to move out of the hotel and into a home- now you have new furniture! It all fell together <3
Yumm! Aw I want to sunggle Sadie, she looks so cozy in that blankie! Those pancakes look great! I have done the protein pancake before and absolutely LOVED them.
These look amazing! I haven’t had pancakes in 02328 years so I’ll need to make these, thanks!
Love your blog!!! Those pancakes look fantastic. Id love to try to make them but unfortunately cannot eat cottage cheese because of a dairy allergy. 🙁 Any ideas what I could substitute instead? Is applesauce a crazy idea?
hmmm… that’s a hard one! applesauce may be too watery. maybe you could just add an extra egg and forgo the cottage cheese alltogether? you may need to add more banana though. not sure if that would work!
Pancakes are my all-time weakness. I cannot eat sweets for breakfast, though. For some reason it makes me sick-feeling.
I love that you’re including more recipes in your blog!
Those pancakes sound so good that I might just have to make them for lunch today! Congrats on your couch coming…can’t wait to see photos of your newly furnished living room!
I always sneak cottage cheese into pancakes and waffles! My family thinks I’m crazy and refuses to taste it b/c they are grossed out by the “lumpiness” factor. More for me! Sadie is too funny in those pictures. Queen of the couch!
these went directly into my google docs fro recipes! I LOVE banana bread so I’ll have to try them out!!! I’m thinking… tomorrow!? YES!
i hope you love ’em!
Good job with the push-ups! Keep at it…eventually you’ll be able to do ’em without the help of your knees.
if this was a video game, my husband would be all over it. so watch out, if you see him staring at you through your windows, dont think its weird or anything.
not at all. i mean i have a dog to keep away the intruders. she’s really great at rolling over and showing her lady bits at the first sign of a stranger.
I love this recipe idea! I just started reading your blog a month back, and I love it! You’re recipes are always so great- I forward them to my mom/sis all the time. Thanks for being such a rockstar and brightening up my googlereader
that’s so nice to hear. thank you, maeve!
I’m making these sometime today, so you should know you’ll be thought about, appreciated, and loved by someone sometime today! Lol. My tummy thanks you 🙂
Oh, and push-ups are also my foe. Even when I try to do the girly push-ups I struggle more than my mom trying to use a computer. It’s THAT bad.
haha thanks lauren!
Those look awesome, Julie! As usual, Sadie is adorable. 🙂
protein pancakes are the ONLY way i will eat cottage cheese. gives me the heebie jeebies otherwise!!
We have leather couches and a dog with sharp nails at times and our couches are fine 🙂
yum cant wait to try these out julie!
Love those pics of her on the new furniture – so cute, and so is the new living room 😉
Looove cottage cheese but I just never buy eggs! Think I could substitute in a flax egg? I’m going to try and I’ll let ya know 😉 thanks for the recipe!
i think it would work with a flax egg. let me know how it turns out if you try it!
Gah all the pancakes floating around the blog world are making me so jealous. I think these will definitely be on the menu in our house tomorrow!
Those pictures and captions of Sadie made me laugh out loud for real this morning. She is too cute! So glad you got your furniture delivered finally! Now your new place can start feeling more homey! And these pancakes look great! I actually don’t like bananas (i know, i know) but I really like banana bread type things so this might be the perfect way for me to eat them!
Oh my gosh, those pancakes look mouthwateringly delicious 🙂 so yummy – great recipe, Julie!
I did a twist on your recent lower body workout this morning and was so wobbly afterwards, it was intense! Loving those 100 squats at the start – sooo effective 🙂
FYI, my mum and dad have leather sofas and our (three) dogs haven’t scratched them – love your couch, it must be so nice to have something smooshy and cosy to sit on now!
Have a great Friday! <3 xyx
Those protein pancakes sound AWESOME!!! I love a good protein packed breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner. Maybe I can convince the man-friend to make these for breakfast-for-dinner tonight hehe
How yummy! I’m bookmarking this so I can make those pancakes soon!
Wow, those banana protein pancakes look like a DREAM!! I must make these soon! 🙂
For those who are interested, I just plugged in this recipe into Spark People’s Recipe Calculator. Here it is:
Calories: 323
Fat: 8.9g
Carbs: 44.5g
Dietary Fiber: 5.6g
Sugars: 9.4g
Protein: 18.9g
awesome! you’re fantastic!
These sound great! I’ve never thought of using cottage cheese in my pancakes- I love cottage cheese in other dishes so it isn’t a texture/ taste thing, just never thought of it! I also love using oat bran in place of oats 🙂
These look SO SO good! Thanks for sharing the recipe with us, cant wait to try them this weekend! 😀
I love the last Sadie picture! Priceless. I have a Viszla mix, and he also refuses to sit/lay on anything that is not soft or will not provide ultimate comfort for him. 🙂
we think it’s funny b/c other dogs to EVERYTHING they can to get cool and sadie always wants to be bundled up and wrapped in blankets – even in the florida heat.
Looks DELICIOUS. Can’t wait to make it myself.. but since I don’t have en immersion blender, I wonder if the Vitamix will work? Or maybe my never-before-used food processor (I know, blasphemy) ?
Hi Julie! You always put your strength training workout – Im just wondering if you could add an what – or an estimate – of what weight you do with each… like how much you do on the lat pulldown etc . . . ? I know everybody is different and needs to start out @ a weight that works for them.. But now that your workouts have changed Im just wondering where you are along the lines of that instead of body pump, and if you keep around consistantly the same weights? Thanks~
I made these for my brother for lunch and he said they were the best he’d ever tried! Swapped out the cottage cheese for sour cream (since I didn’t want to dirty up a blender, and wanted to get it ready fast)… and then spread a little PB on it 🙂
I love making bananay breakfasts! And banana is the perfect light sweetener for pancakes. Mmmmm maybe lunch should be pancakes? 😛
Yum! 🙂 I’ve been on a total pancake kick lately and these sound amazing!!
The pictures you post of Sadie with quotes always bring a smile to my face haha <3
I may officially have to try those darned pancakes!! Those look seriously delicious.
And DEFINITELY leather!! I have found it VERY hard for puppy claws to scratch, and if they do, very EASY to rub out with a little leather conditioner. As long as I have puppies, I will always have leather couches.
Between the banana bread and pumpkin pankcakes..I don’t know which one I want to try first! They both look amazing 🙂
I love making protein pancakes when I need a pancake fix. I’ve never tried mixing banana in the batter…what a novel idea! I love banana bread, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t be good. Usually when I make protein pancakes, I add in 3 egg whites to the 1/2 cup oats.
“OH the horror” That’d brilliant!
Your pancakes sound delicious.
I looooooove pancakes!!
Made them this AM, and…. HOLY &@%#*^ amaaaaaazing!!!! Also realized I actually do like cottage cheese! would never try it prior because, forgive me, the look of curdled milk aghhh.Thinkin about tryin the pumpkin ones tom!!!
I am loving your pancake creations lately!! They are perfect for the upcoming chilly weather. 🙂
Made these tonight – very good! Do you ever put peanut butter on your pancakes? When they are hot it gets melty, yum-o and especially good on these!
Love your blog. I like how your recipes are small/single servings.
Keep up the good work!
Made these pancakes this morning and they were delicious! I also added a few dark chocolate chips to the batter 🙂 Can’t wait to try the pumpkin!
Hi Julie, love your blog!
I made these pancakes today using a regular blender, but the ingredients wouldn’t blend at first so I added a splash of milk and they turned out just fine. Thanks for the great recipes, can’t wait to try the pumpkin pancakes!
Yummmm…. just made these for breaky, so delicious, and filling to boot!! Excellent…. may have made a stable Sunday morning breakfast…