Friday, May 23, 2008

CORE Berry Pancake


Serves:
1 for breakfast
This is a very filling breakfast, the equivalent of a big bowl of porrige for brekkie

You could make in egg rings as a dessert and serve with low fat ice cream (points)
NB - Cereal is limited to once per day. If you've already eaten cereal, you'll need to count the oats

Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

  • 1 egg
  • rolled oats or quick oats - 1 x 34g sachet or 1/3 cup
  • 1/2 cup diet berry fizzy (I use DietRite Cranberry Boysenberry) or 100ml diet lemonade and 25ml diet cordial (maybe a splash of the diet Ribena?)
  • 1/3 cup frozen berries
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1tsp olive oil
  • 100g Yoplait Forme Vanilla to serve


Method:

Mix egg, soft drink, baking powder and oats with a stab mixer.
Add the berries, still frozen, reserving a spoonful or 2.
Mix with Spoon - do not blend the berries!
Put pancake mixture in fridge overnight, same for remaining berries.

In the morning:
Heat a small nonstick skillet to medium high, add the oil and turn back to medium.
(I use a skillet about the size of my hand with the fingers spread)
Stir the pancake mixture and pour in
NB - these are moist pancakes (not stodgy) and take longer to cook than normal pancakes. The batter is also "heavier", so turning them too early will break them.
It's time to turn when there is a 2cm "ring" around the outside, and when you tilt the pan, the batter moves very little. (You'll see what I mean)
Use a wide egg flip, slide it gently under to make sure it's not caught, then flip quickly and cook the other side. It will not take as much time as the first which cooks about 75%. Second side will also not be as brown.
Serve onto a plate, add the reserved berries (including the berry juice), 1/2 tub vanilla yoghurt.

Optional - sprinkle with artificial sweetener (1 tsp equivalent) to tone down the tartness of the berries

Feedback from Almost Hubby:
"Mmmmm.....doesn't taste like diet food. You could feed this to my nephew [9 years old] and he'd love it."

Not on Core? The total Points for this is 5

This recipe is based on a lemonade pancake recipe posted by MTHERESEN

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is really nice and very filling.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the photo - very useful

Anonymous said...

What a lovely Sounding receipe and it tastes just as delicious (my man said it was "average"). I need to try again and not use x3 of everything, a little less liquid I think would make it perfect.

Anonymous said...

This is so delish Dee, love your recipies, keep them coming.

Anonymous said...

Really really yummy. I was bit skeptical, but as I love pancakes I tried it. It was great. Really filling and super yum. Thanks for adding another favorite to my Sunday Morning breakfasts.

Anonymous said...

Really really yummy. I was bit skeptical, but as I love pancakes I tried it. It was great. Really filling and super yum. Thanks for adding another favorite to my Sunday Morning breakfasts.