Make diet enjoying food with these protein pancakes

There is nothing better, once the Christmas holidays are over, than retaking the lost dietary habits with a nutritious recipe to prepare at breakfast. Cinnamon protein pancakes are the perfect food to start the morning, with energy and strength to face the rest of the day.

As they say, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Unfortunately, many people skip it because in the mornings they have no appetite, or simply because they do not want to prepare it, so they end up having breakfast with a coffee with milk and toast (at best!).

Well, in this new section of nutritious recipes, we are going to teach you how to prepare tasty and energetic cinnamon protein pancakes, which will provide you with the nutrients and calories needed for your body to start up in the best possible way.


Let's stop preliminaries, and let's go with the ingredients

Pancake ingredients

For two pancakes:

8 egg whites
Cinnamon powder
Vanilla extract
1 ripe banana
30 g of oatmeal
A little maple syrup

Preparation

1. First, we should mix banana, egg whites, cinnamon, vanilla extract and oats in a bowl. Beat the mixture until you get a uniform dough.
2. Prepare a pan, with olive or coconut oil to prevent the dough from sticking.
3. We will put the dough in the pan, trying to turn the dough to avoid that it stays stuck and cooked on both sides.
4. Once they are ready, we will serve them, throwing the maple syrup over the pancakes and cinnamon powder at taste. You can already put some more banana.

Nutritional information

The nutritional values that we describe below, correspond to a pancake, it is important to clarify that the previous ingredients are for two pancakes:

Calories: 148
Fat: 2.3 g
Carbohydrates: 15.2 g
Proteins: 16 g

What are the benefits of consuming these pancakes?

To begin with, it is important to clarify that a powerful breakfast such as these cinnamon protein pancakes help us to activate our metabolism in the morning. But, why do we need to activate the metabolism? Easy, by making our body activate after we get up, our body starts to burn calories much sooner than it would if we postponed a strong intake later. For this reason the belief is that breakfast helps us lose weight.

In addition, these pancakes are a source of totally healthy carbohydrates, the fructose of banana and oats are of an exquisite nutritional quality. Additionally, these pancakes are rich in different vitamins, highlighting those of type B and C (present in the egg and banana).

Also, the quality of the proteins that these pancakes contain is very high. Egg protein is the type that most appreciates our body, being more effective at the time that our body metabolize and assimilate, taking advantage of its nutrients.

Conclusions

Although it may seem an excessively high calorie recipe, we can verify that one serving does not exceed 150 calories. Compared to a toast with a spoonful of jam and butter (175 calories approximately) is little. And more, taking into account that these protein pancakes are much more complete in terms of ingested nutrients.

Give a try to these pancakes, we are convinced that you will not regret it. They are a perfect complement to coffee to prepare a nutritious breakfast every morning!