Healthy Chocolate Chip Pancakes

February 03, 2017

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Thanks to a cocoa-flavored batter that is studded with miniature chocolate chips, your family will never know that there are fruits and veggies hiding in these delicious Sneaky Healthy Chocolate Chip Pancakes!

1 cup cottage cheese
½ cup peeled, roughly chopped carrots, or baby-cut carrots
2 cups whole oats
½ cup fresh spinach leaves
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa
¼ cup milk, plus ¼ cup as needed (I used 1% milk)
3 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 apple, peeled and roughly chopped (if you have a high speed blender you can leave the peel on the apple)
2 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon baking soda
? cup mini chocolate chips

Place the cottage cheese, carrots, oats, spinach, cocoa, ¼ cup milk, honey, vanilla and apple into a high quality blender. Blend on high until the mixture is very smooth, about 1 minute. If the mixture is...
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Nutritions

Calories
198

Sodium
247mg
10% DV

Fat
8g
12% DV

Protein
6g
13% DV

Carbs
23g
8% DV

Fiber
3g
14% DV