One of my favorite recipes over the last 1.5 years has been pancakes. I decided I was fat back in Feb 2024, and by Feb 2025 I had lost over 60 lbs. I've been eating a high protien low carb diet, and maintaining my weight eating around 2000 calories a day trying to intake 200 g of protein or more per day. I don't worry about fat intake unless I'm close to my daily calorie limit, and try to limit my carbs to less than 100g per day.
Here is a low carb high protein pancake recipe. Each pancake is 50 cal, 9.6 g protien, and 3.7 g net carbs. I like to use a food scale to weigh my ingredients out.
Dry ingredients:
King Arthur Keto Wheat Flour-50 g
Whey Protien powder-120 g
Baking Soda-1.5 tsp
Baking powder-1.5 tsp
Salt (optional)-¼ tsp or less
Swerve 0 calorie confectioners/baking sugar 2 tbsp (optional,
I don't use depending on protein powder used)
Wet Ingredients:
Oikos Triple Zero Vanilla greek yogurt-226 g
Liquid egg whites-92 g
Lemon juice-2 tbsp
Vanilla extract-1 tsp
Mix dry and wet ingredients separately, then add dry ingredients to wet and mix until barely combined but don't overmix. Let the batter sit for 10-15 minutes then cook like normal pancakes. This should make 16 pancakes 3-3.5" diameter.
I often mix in fresh or frozen berries to the pancakes as well. If I dont mix them in I'll top pancakes with butter, fresh berries, and use a sugar free pancake syrup that's around 15 cals per serving. You can also use a couple of tablespoon dollops of Cool Whip if you'd like.
If you're doing Keto, substitute the flour for Almond flour, egg whites for 2 whole eggs, and fat free yogurt for regular greek yogurt, cottage cheese (blended smooth), or sour cream. This will lower the protein a little, but bring your fat grams up.
