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Recipe Rehab: Pancakes

Categories: Recipe Rehab with Tanya Zuckerbrot, Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements

Our weekly feature, Recipe Rehab, takes a recipe -- sometimes basic, sometimes decadent and sometimes just plain unhealthy -- and turns it into a scrumptious and healthy dish, pumped up with nutrition. Sometimes all it takes is a few alterations to prepare a dish that would make even your nutritionist proud.

Sometimes all it takes is a few small changes to make a breakfast favorite healthy enough for every day.

Pancakes

2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup Egg Beaters®
1 1/4 cups skim milk
3 tablespoons safflower oil

Sift together flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Add eggbeaters, milk and safflower oil and beat together until smooth. Drop by spoonfuls onto a hot griddle or frying pan sprayed with non-fat cooking spray.

Rehab Rundown

  • Whole wheat flour was substituted for white flour, adding fiber and flavor
  • Egg Beaters were substituted for whole eggs, dropping the fat
  • Skim milk was used instead of whole milk, dropping calories and fat
  • The oil was reduced from 1/4 cup to 3 tablespoons

Rehab Reveal

Based on 1/4 recipe

Original

Adapted

Calories

451 (37% from fat)

341 (27% from fat(

Fat

18g

11g

Saturated Fat

6g

3g

Protein

12g

13g

Carbohydrate

59g

52g

Fiber

2

7g

Sodium

850mg

850mg

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