Cottage Cheese Waffles
Healthy, savoury cottage cheese waffle recipe, quickly made with only 3 main ingredients to make a protein rich breakfast. Don't have a waffle iron? Then make them into pancakes.
Equipment
- waffle iron
Ingredients
- 75 g (3oz/½ cup + 1 heaped tbsp) plain (all-purpose) flour use half and mix rest with either wholemeal, buckwheat or spelt flour (See NOTES)*
- 3 large eggs organic
- 180 g (6oz/0.8 or ¾ cup) cottage cheese
- ½ tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt fleur de sel or Celtic sea salt
- 1 tablespoon oat bran optional
- 1 tablespoon olive oil optional
- ½ teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary or chives optional (or other herbs, according to topping)
Instructions
- Heat the waffle iron to the desired setting (either crispy or soft). Add canola oil if the waffle iron is not non stick, otherwise we add it for extra crispiness.
- In a large bowl, whisk the eggs into the flour and baking powder until the batter is smooth. If using, add the oat bran. Whisk in the cottage cheese and rest of the ingredients. No need to blend or let the batter rest.
- Ladle a little of the batter onto the waffle iron, keeping it in the middle. Heat for about 4-8 minutes depending on the size of your irons. As ours is quite big, we leave a maximum of 8 minutes.
Notes
Yield: makes about 4-6 waffles, depending on the size of your waffle iron.
Flour: use wholemeal or spelt flour for flavour. If following a gluten free diet, then use either buckwheat flour, oat or rice flour (hence why this recipe is listed on the low gluten recipe collection, as this can be easily interchanged).
Best Served with a slice of smoked salmon, avocado, seeds and/or fromage frais or Skyr for a healthy protein-rich breakfast.
Nutrition Information per serving: contains 24g protein, 37% carbohydrates, 18% fat, 45% vitamin B12, 27% vitamin A, 20% calcium, 25% phosphorus, 12% iron.
So high in protein, calcium and B12 (excellent for muscle repair, bone health and energy metabolism).
So high in protein, calcium and B12 (excellent for muscle repair, bone health and energy metabolism).