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PANCAKES

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Strawberries and Cream Pancakes

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These strawberry pancakes are a healthy alternative to traditional breakfast pancakes. With ingredients like chia seeds, oat flour and fresh strawberries, they offer nutritious benefits without sacrificing taste. Source: Diabetic Living Magazine
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Strawberries and Cream Pancakes Diabetic Living Magazine

Recipe Summary
Active:
20 mins
Total:
35 mins
Servings:
12
Nutrition Profile:

Nut-Free
Diabetic Appropriate
Low-Calorie
Vegetarian

Soy-Free
Heart Healthy
Low Sodium

SOURCE: Diabetic Living Magazine
 
but it isn't low carb.
 
I spent some time over the weekend searching diabetes friendly pancake recipes - all manner of wonderfulness appeared including green pancakes and chocolate ones and most were from diabetic magazines and websites but I realised all of them were higher than 11g.

So Mr G is delighted that I will be having one of his as a treat and not attempting an oats version or something the same colour as Shrek!
I know 11g is a lot still. Usually I eat under 40g a day and try to manage under 30g once a week... but it will be a treat - no sugar, no spreads - just a few allowed strawberries and the delight of an annual treat dessert.
I could always freeze half and have just 5.5g carbs... another option.

I am not trying to encourage people to bad habits 😉 - just it is the case that sometimes the recipes best for us actually end up with more carbs - which is fine if you are not restricting your carbs to the low end of Low Carb.


Having the next HbA1c test after Christmas/New Year/Valentine's and Shrove Tuesday is a little unfortunate! I did resist a FREE Easter Egg today!
 
I keep to between 20 - 30g of carbs a day and I made these actual pancakes this morning, this is a picture of my breakfast 🙂.

This is a post I just made on my own page on Facebook which I started in August to keep track of my adventures into cooking for a keto lifestyle.

I adapted some recipes I'd seen and these are keto-friendly made with almond and coconut flour and psyllium husk and come in at around 2-3 g of carbs per pancake.

They are yummy and easy to do. I used psyllium husk because I like it as both extra fibre and as an ingredient that holds stuff together but I think if you doubled the eggs you could manage without it.


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Recipe I used although I'm sure it will work without you being completely strict on measurements:

This makes four small but very filling pancakes.

1 large egg (UK sizes)
2 tablespoons of almond flour.
2 teaspoons of coconut flour.
1 tablespoon of psyllium husk powder.
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
ground cinnamon to taste - I used about a 1/4 teaspoon
1 teaspoon of melted butter
three drops of vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon sweetener which I powdered.
4 tablespoons of double cream.

Method.
Mix all the dry powdery stuff together until it looks like one thing and not lots of things. I did this in a pyrex jug ready for when I add the liquid later.

melt the butter if you haven't already and then crack the egg into it and whisk it with a fork. Once it looks like a nice pale yellow custardy type mix (no greasy butter pools nor obvious yellow and white showing) add the double cream and whisk again until you have a nice mixture.

Pour the liquid into the dry stuff and mix together. I left mine quite caky - you can add more liquid - maybe another small egg if you want a more liquid batter but I found the caky mixture much easier to deal with and it turned out nice and solid.

Heat a small pan - I used one of the tiny ones you can buy which is the right size for frying one egg. Melt some butter in it.

Then put about a quarter of your mixture into the pan. It doesn't spread the way ordinary pancake batter does. I found if I lifted it off the heat and gently shook it, it spread nicely - right up until the last one which was more rebellious than the others.

Do the usual thing you do with pancakes and wait for little pin pricks to show at the top surface and then using a spatula carefully turn it over and cook the other side.

Repeat for the other three.

They stay warm while you do them all and you can top them with whatever toppings you like best. I stuck with butter and a small amount of lemon juice and a sprinkle of sweetener - traditional and keto-friendly.
 
I spent some time over the weekend searching diabetes friendly pancake recipes - all manner of wonderfulness appeared including green pancakes and chocolate ones and most were from diabetic magazines and websites but I realised all of them were higher than 11g.

So Mr G is delighted that I will be having one of his as a treat and not attempting an oats version or something the same colour as Shrek!
I know 11g is a lot still. Usually I eat under 40g a day and try to manage under 30g once a week... but it will be a treat - no sugar, no spreads - just a few allowed strawberries and the delight of an annual treat dessert.
I could always freeze half and have just 5.5g carbs... another option.

I am not trying to encourage people to bad habits 😉 - just it is the case that sometimes the recipes best for us actually end up with more carbs - which is fine if you are not restricting your carbs to the low end of Low Carb.


Having the next HbA1c test after Christmas/New Year/Valentine's and Shrove Tuesday is a little unfortunate! I did resist a FREE Easter Egg today!
Just quoted your post to alert you to the keto-friendly pancake recipe I put together for this morning and tried and it worked really well. It is posted above with the ingredients and recipe and method. x
 
Thank you for the low carb recipe. I think it is really important to develop truely low carb versions of foods, rather than recipes which are far too high in carbs for a diet controlled type two like myself
 
Just quoted your to alert you to the keto-friendly pancake recipe I put together for this morning and tried and it worked really well. It is posted above with the ingredients and recipe and method. x
Thank you for being a star! I did my best to look for low carb or keto friendly so this is great to know.
 
Thank you for the low carb recipe. I think it is really important to develop truely low carb versions of foods, rather than recipes which are far too high in carbs for a diet controlled type two like myself
You are very welcome. I noticed that when I started looking for low carb recipes to begin with - their idea of low carb was my idea of high carb. So many recipes use my entire day's carb allowance for one item of food. Or they say the result will serve twenty and then each piece is low carb but actually all they are doing is cutting a high carb item into ridiculously small pieces to get the carb numbers to work.

I had a go at a low-carb Xmas cake following a recipe and it was a disaster. So from now on I am going to try hard to make my own stuff with the information I know is correct. I may be out on final numbers by half a gramme or so but nothing so much that it will cause any problems.

My next project is to make a very low carb marmalade because I really miss marmalade.
 
I just enjoyed every mouthful of my pancake, with butter, lemon and some maple syrup.
It is once a year!!!!
 
Good luck with low carb marmalade @NotWorriedAtAll. Glad you enjoyed yours @ SB2015.
I regret my normal pancake. Looked forward to it for days but it was too filling and my body rejected the flour. Two half months of clean living has confused my system, it no longer recognises 'treat' and I think I calculated wrong sure it was closer to 30g!
 
I made almond flour pancakes from Dr David Cavan's book. I like them occasionally for breakfast too.
I haven't yet bought almond flour to make alternatives. But will probably avoid plain flour from now on.
 
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