Pink Pancakes

 Last week I had a bit of a pancake obsession and one morning I wanted to try something a little different. How cool do these pancakes look?! And no food colouring was used at all. The secret pink ingredient is a little weird... beetroot! Not enough to affect the flavour, but just enough to give the pancakes an amazing pink colour. And as they were pink, I thought what better than to make them strawberry flavoured? To get the strawberry taste I added some of the protein powder I use: USN Pure Protein. I also tried out a new yummy filling. Peanut butter is a must with pancakes, but I wanted more of a sauce for my little sandwich. So to do this I mixed PB with banana and cocoa powder, it was marvellous!

Ingredients

Pancakes

40g oat flour (blend oats in a blender)

1 whole egg  &1 egg white

3 tbsp liquid (I used unsweetened almond milk)

1 tbsp low fat cottage cheese

2 tsp stevia

2 large slices of beetroot from a jar (patted dry with kitchen roll)

1 scoop of Strawberry USN Pure Protein

1/2 tsp baking powder

Sauce

1 tbsp organic no added sugar peanut butter

1/2 mashed banana

1 tsp cocoa powder

Instructions

Pancakes

1. Put the oat flour, liquid and beetroot slices into a blender and blend until smooth. It should be nice and pink, if not then add a little more beetroot until you reach the desired colour. 

2. Pour the mixture into a bowl and add the eggs, cottage cheese, stevia, baking powder, protein powder and mix until you reach a batter consistency.

3. Heat a small amount of butter in a frying pan on a low heat.

4. When the pan is nice and hot, pour the mixture into small circles in the frying pan, leaving plenty of space between each one. I usually fit about 3 pancakes in the pan at one time. 

5. Cook for about 3 minutes or until you can easily get a spatula underneath to flip them over. 

6. Flip them over and cook the second side only for around 1 minute.

7. Stack them up on a plate adding the sauce in between each layer.

8. I then topped mine with honey!

Sauce

1. Mix together the peanut butter, mashed banana and cocoa powder.

2. Microwave for about 1 minute, until nice and runny.

Be brave & add the beetroot!

Lucy x