It so happened that pancakes with cottage cheese are a favorite breakfast for many Russians. The calorie content of the finished dish is quite difficult to calculate, but in today's publication we undertook to solve this problem.
Why are calories counted?
Daily calorie intake must be known in order to control your weight, especially if a person leads a sedentary lifestyle. So, for example, for men in their prime years, leading a moderately mobile lifestyle, it is enough to consume 2400 calories per day, and women with the same parameters can even be satisfied with 2200 calories daily. Knowing the limit of daily food intake, people manage to keep their body normal, and subsequently do not exhaust themselves with rigid diets. Therefore, even such a “heavy” dish as pancakes with cottage cheese (whose caloric value we are now calculating), while maintaining a balance in the diet, may well be present on tables that monitor their weight.
Calorie content of a traditional dish using milk
Right now, we will begin to count the calories of the dish in question, given the fact that it is prepared according to traditional recipes. To begin with, we will make a complete list of the products used, and then we will calculate the calorie content of the finished dish per 100 grams, as well as the calorie content of one finished pancake. Here is a complete list of products that are included in a regular pancake with cottage cheese (calorie content is indicated opposite each of the ingredients):
- premium wheat flour - 440 kcal;
- fresh chicken egg - 73 kcal;
- sugar - 119 kcal;
- vegetable oil - 152 kcal;
- butter - 150 kcal.
Water, salt and baking soda, which are also included in the pancake with cottage cheese (whose caloric value we are now calculating), do not have calories. But the curd filling can be different (from low fat to fat) and have from 79 to 159 calories per 100 grams of product. Using simple calculations, we were able to identify that the calorie content of the finished dish when using medium-fat cottage cheese is 220 calories per 100 grams of the finished dish.
Pancake with cottage cheese: calorie content 1 pc. with sour cream
Due to the fact that the portioned dish weighs more than one hundred grams, and many Russians are used to flavoring the finished pancake with sour cream, the total calorie content also increases. Also, the portion depends on the amount of filling and the size of the pancake. On average, the presented dish contains a little more than 330 kcal per one serving. And this is without taking into account the sour cream sauce, whose calories are easy to calculate on your own.
How to reduce the calorie content of a dish?
We found that pancake with cottage cheese calorie content is quite high. However, for the most part, this figure is achieved by using vegetable oil in a pan, as well as by lubricating the baked pancake with butter. Therefore, you should refuse to lubricate the pan with oil, and for this, purchase a good thin pancake with a Teflon non-stick coating, for which the pancreas will say “thank you”. You can also refuse to use milk in the test in favor of kefir or other dairy products, whose energy value is noticeably lower. It’s very tasty to bake pancakes on whey. Thus prepared pancake with cottage cheese (calorie content per 100 grams of the finished dish) will not exceed 180 kcal.
Of course, we do not call for pancakes to be cooked on water and do not lubricate them at all after baking with butter, but we believe that our information has been of great use to readers. In conclusion of our publication today, we present a recipe for delicious and magnificent serum pancakes without the use of eggs in the test.
Serum Pancake Dough Recipe
So, we want to try pancake with cottage cheese, while reducing the calorie content of the dish, so that tastes are not affected. To prepare the dough, we need the following ingredients:
- serum - 1 liter;
- wheat flour - 3.5 cups;
- granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- quicklime soda - 1 tsp.
Our grandmothers began to use such dough when they drained the whey from cooking homemade cottage cheese. The pancakes themselves are incredibly lush, with beautiful porous holes. However, such pancakes should be baked in a cast-iron pan.
Cooking method
Heat the whey to a warm state in the microwave or in a saucepan over low heat. Combine the fermented milk product with salt and sugar, stir. Add soda to the flour and begin to fill the ingredients in parts, stirring with a fork so that small lumps do not form. It remains to add vegetable oil and leave the dough for several hours, so that it is properly reached. The consistency of the mass should be thicker than that of a conventional pancake dough mixed in milk and eggs. We fry in the same way as ordinary pancakes - on both sides, only once, at the very beginning of baking, lubricating the pan.
Enjoy your meal!