Gluten-Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Tender, custardy pancakes made by blending cottage cheese with eggs, a little gluten-free flour blend and vanilla. They cook low and slow on the griddle and come out golden outside and creamy in the middle.
At a glance: This easy breakfast recipe yields 3 servings in about 30 minutes (10 min prep, 20 min cook). It uses 9 ingredients — including full-fat cottage cheese, eggs, gluten-free all-purpose flour blend with xanthan gum — and walks through 6 steps. Updated . Browse more breakfast recipes or return to all gluten-free recipes.
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Cross-Contamination Warning for Gluten-Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes: When preparing this breakfast recipe, shared griddles, pans and spatulas can carry batter from standard pancakes, so wash them well first. Flour dust travels. Bake this on a day the kitchen is not also handling flour that contains gluten, use clean bowls, beaters and baking sheets, and keep the gluten-free flour blend in its own sealed container.
Gluten-Free Notes for Gluten-Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes: These pancakes use a gluten-free all-purpose flour blend and get most of their structure from eggs and cottage cheese. Use a flour blend, baking powder and vanilla labeled gluten-free.
Ingredients
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Instructions
Tips & Notes
- Cook cottage cheese pancakes over medium-low heat. They are rich in egg and cheese and brown before the middle sets if the pan is too hot.
- Keep the pancakes small, about 3 inches across. The custardy batter is soft and small pancakes are much easier to flip.
- Prefer a little texture? Stir the cottage cheese into the batter by hand instead of blending it, for creamy pockets of curd.
Common questions
How long does Gluten-Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes take?
Gluten-Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes takes about 30 minutes: 10 minutes to prep and 20 minutes to cook, for 3 servings.
What should I check before making Gluten-Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes with celiac disease?
Written with gluten-free ingredients. Use products labeled gluten-free, check labels, and ask your clinician about your own needs.
What cross-contamination risk is specific to Gluten-Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes?
Check full-fat cottage cheese, eggs, gluten-free all-purpose flour blend with xanthan gum before they go into Gluten-Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes. Shared griddles, pans and spatulas can carry batter from standard pancakes, so wash them well first. Flour dust travels. Bake this on a day the kitchen is not also handling flour that contains gluten, use clean bowls, beaters and baking sheets, and keep the gluten-free flour blend in its own sealed container.
Which gluten-free swaps does Gluten-Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes use?
Gluten-Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes relies on a gluten-free all-purpose flour blend, xanthan gum. Keep those gluten-free-labeled products in place of a gluten-containing flour or sauce. If the blend already lists xanthan gum, do not add a second binder unless this recipe says to.
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