4 Ingredient Keto Ricotta Pancakes

When all you need is just 4 ingredients to make a quick and easy breakfast, you never have to feel deprived on a sugar-free, low carb diet.

Simple recipes like these are what can keep you feeling satisfied and happy and ready to take on the day ahead!

How To Make Keto Ricotta Pancakes

You just need 4 main ingredients to make these easy keto pancakes. 2 optional ingredients if you like a bit of sweetness to your pancakes.

Ingredients

You need eggs, ricotta cheese, whey protein powder, I used vanilla, but unflavored is fine, and baking powder. Optional ingredients; I like a pinch of salt in these, totally optional, and I use vanilla stevia but you can leave it out.

Directions

Add all ingredients to a blender or whisk together by hand.

Heat coconut oil in a skillet on medium high heat.

Use 1/4 cup to measure batter for each pancake.

Free form pancakes or use an english muffin mold in skillet to form pancakes.

Allow to cook 2-3 minutes on one side or until you see bubbles forming around edges and center. Flip and cook 1-2 minutes more on other side.

Makes a total of 8 pancakes, serving size is 2. 

Recommended Protein Powders

I’ve been experimenting a lot with protein powder lately, using it for my Cloud Bread Loaf and rolls, grilled cheese and French Toast so I knew a little protein powder might just work with eggs for a pancake, even without typical flour being used.

Cream cheese is used a lot in many low carb recipes and many times I’m just not a fan of it. That’s why I adapted my Cloud Bread with sour cream instead.

I’ve also tried my friend Melissa’s very popular Cream Cheese Pancakes when I tried an egg fast a while back. They were delicious and perfect if you can’t have protein powder, but I wanted to eat so many of them because they just weren’t filling me up.

My favorite protein powder that doesn’t have a bunch of ingredients you can’t even pronounce is Jay Robb’s brand. I use the vanilla flavor in these keto pancakes.

Can I make these Fluffy Keto Pancakes?

If you’re looking for a thick and fluffy kind of pancake, these will not be what you want. Try my Coconut Flour Pancakes in my cookbook for that kind.

But they are spectacular for a quick light breakfast when you don’t don’t want the typical eggs you’ve been eating.

You could try my Pumpkin pancakes if you’re looking for thicker, fluffy traditional type pancakes.

Best Sugar Free Syrups

The brown syrup you see on top is actually sugar free syrup made by Sukrin, called Sukrin Gold Fiber Syrup. I love it and so do the kids!

Allulose in liquid form is a wonderful syrup. Not as sweet and not brown in color but still delicious.

Lankanto has a sugar free maple syrup which is also good, though not as thick as the Sukrin syrup.

BEST TIPS FOR KETO RICOTTA PANCAKES

You don’t need to make these as large and flat as I did. You could pour batter in an English Muffin ring mold to make them perfectly round and a little thicker if that’s what you like. You could also try using mason jar lids as forms as well.

You really don’t need any sweetener since the protein powder will have sweetener in it. But me and the kids do like it better sweeter so we use vanilla stevia,  but feel free to refer to my conversion chart for a substitute amount of another sweetener to use.

You can use butter instead of coconut oil to fry pancakes if you prefer.

You can even skip the sweetener if you don’t care for sweet pancakes.

If you’re on a very low carb diet or can’t do protein powder you may be able to sub the protein powder with some almond flour although I haven’t tried that.

Nutrition info does not include oil to fry pancakes.

 You could even make these as a wrap with some crumbled cooked sausage and cheese in the middle, YUMMO!

4 Ingredient Keto Ricotta Pancakes

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4 Ingredient Keto Low Carb Vanilla Ricotta Pancakes

Course Breakfast

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes minutes

Total Time 10 minutes minutes

Servings 4 @ 2 pancakes per serving

Calories 117kcal

Author Brenda Bennett | Sugar-Free Mom

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup ricotta cheese (I used part skim)
• 1/4 cup vanilla whey protein powder I used Jay Robb’s
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• pinch salt
• Optional: 1/2 tsp vanilla liquid stevia
• coconut oil for frying

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Instructions

• Add all ingredients to a blender or whisk together by hand.
• Heat coconut oil in a skillet on medium high heat.
• Use 1/4 cup to measure batter for each pancake.
• Free form pancakes or use an english muffin mold in skillet to form pancakes.
• Allow to cook 2-3 minutes on one side or until you see bubbles forming around edges and center. Flip and cook 1-2 minutes more on other side. Makes a total of 8 pancakes, serving size is 2. 
• Enjoy immediately!

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Notes

This recipe was first published in July 2016.

Nutrition

Serving: 1@ 2 pancakes | Calories: 117kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 179mg | Sodium: 88mg | Potassium: 156mg | Vitamin A: 375IU | Calcium: 115mg | Iron: 0.9mg

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A little cupcake with frosting!

NO, no quite. 🙂

It’s a little protein puff pancake with a nice equal amount of protein and carbs that can be made ahead and taken on the go for a healthy in-between meal snack. These little snacks won’t blow your calorie budget for the day.  Needing something to curb hunger still your next meal is often the reason many choose prepared protein bars which are often like candy bars and really high in calories.

When I shared my Fat Free Iced Coffee Protein Frappe yesterday, I shared the protein powder  I recently bought at Whole Foods. I am almost done with it and will be trying a different brand out soon but I definitely feel better increasing my protein in more of my snacks. Keeps me fuller for longer than just grabbing a fruit.

When I created this recipe unlike my other Puff Pancake recipes I wanted to eliminate the flour and use rolled oats instead. Grinding the rolled oats in your blender is much cheaper than buying oat flour already packaged.

These are really the perfect size and for only 71 calories you can have two and you are eating a nice 14 grams of protein and carbs each. I added some plain Greek yogurt on top with a raspberry but if you are on- the -go, they taste great plain and right out of the refrigerator!

I’ve had to make these about 3 times changing ingredients to make them moist and not empty inside like popovers so that is why I added the chia seeds to my most recent batch. You could eliminate the chia and I have made them without and they were still good, but your nutrition info will change.

Other recipes you might like:

• Single Serving Chocolate Chia Whole Wheat Puff Pancake
• Single Serving Gluten Free Chia Puff Pancake
• Single Serving Egg White Whole Wheat Puff Pancake
• Single Serving Crustless Egg Muffin

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