Simple Cottage Cheese Oatmeal Pancakes

I've reworked my original recipe make things even simpler than before. The 3 big changes are using a blender for the batter, swapped the oats in for flour and reduced the number of ingredients. I hope you like these new and improved cottage cheese oatmeal pancakes.

My family loves French toast and pancakes of all sorts. And one of my kiddos all time favorites are these cottage cheese oatmeal pancakes. As a busy mom of 3, I'm totally on board with this. These pancakes are so easy to make. I toss everything into the blender to mix up the batter with no extra bowls to clean up and 15 minutes later pancakes are ready to eat.

I have been testing and working on this recipe for years and this version is the best I've come up with yet! No more cottage cheese curds sticking to the pan and just 6 pantry staple ingredients.

Make ahead blueberry overnight oats or carrot zucchini oat muffins are awesome for busy mornings on the go, but these pancakes are my favorite to make when I have a few extra minutes before school or on the weekend.

Ingredients

• Cottage Cheese - I use 4% milkfat small curd cottage cheese when I make these pancakes but you can use any type of cottage cheese you like.
• Rolled Oats - Because you are going to blitz these in the blender, either instant oats or old fashioned oats will work best.

How to make cottage cheese oatmeal pancakes

Grab your blender container and let's get to work!

Make the batter

1. Place all the ingredients into the blender container in the order listed.
2. Blend on low speed until the ingredients are well combined, stopping to get the oatmeal scraped from the bottom if necessary. Let the batter rest for 5 minutes.

Cook the Pancakes

1. In a large skillet melt the butter. Once butter is melted use a small cookie scoop to drop the batter
2. Cook on the first side until you see bubbles on the top, then flip. Cook on the second side until just browned, then move to a plate. Repeat until remaining pancake batter has been used up.

Serving Suggestions

This pancake recipe is a great "breakfast for dinner" option, just like my French Toast Casserole. Serve the cottage cheese pancakes with lox, tuna or whitefish salad, cut up some veggies and dinner is served!

Or turn add these pancakes onto a fun brunch buffet with spinach feta omelettes, a blintz souffle, a pitcher of iced mochas and Funfetti cookies for dessert.

Fun Additions

The cottage cheese oatmeal pancakes are awesome and delicious as is, but it's always fun to shake things up. Here are a few things we've added to them over the years:

• Mini Chocolate Chips sprinkled onto the batter when you first put it into the pan
• Frozen blueberries or blueberry puree added to the pancakes while they are in the pan.
• Cinnamon swirled in the batter
• Banana puree mixed into the batter, then add banana slices while cooking.

Pancake Topping Ideas

Maple syrup is a classic with pancakes of all sorts, but you can change up the toppings depending on your mood. The cottage cheese pancakes pair well with lots of flavor profiles.

• Go sweet: Drizzle with chocolate syrup or dust with cinnamon sugar. Or top with a big dollop of whipped cream and some vanilla almond granola.
• Go tropical and fruity: Mango puree with mango chunks and coconut would be a great topping as would sliced bananas and strawberries.
• Go Warm and Cozy: Think warm maple syrup or maple butter with a dash of pumpkin pie spice on top. Or use the cinnamon swirl from the cinnamon roll overnight oats as a topping for the pancakes. Yum!

Storage and Reheating Tips

Store the leftover cottage cheese oatmeal pancakes one of two ways:

• Refrigerator: Put the leftovers into an air tight container or zip top bag and store in the fridge for up to 5 days. To reheat, simply pop into the microwave for about 10 seconds and enjoy.
• Freezer: Let the pancakes cool on the serving dish and then place them into zip top bag and lay them flat in the freezer. Freezing them flat make takes up less room in the freezer and allows you to take out just when you need when reheating. To reheat, pop them into the microwave for 10-20 second and serve. Be careful not to overheat as the cottage cheese with get crazy hot.

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