Low Fat Sweet Pancake Recipes

By WLR's Food Information Executive, Laurence Beeken

Ditch your traditional sugar and lemon pancakes and squeeze one of our delicious sweet and fruity pancakes into your daily allowance instead? Each recipe is prepared in under 5 minutes, is low in fat, provides 1½ servings of fruit and is lower in calories than 2 dull sugar and lemon ones*.

Raspberry, Coulis and Ice Cream Filling

Makes 2 pancakes (serves 2)

Ingredients

• 2 Pancakes - see Pancake Mix Recipe
• 200g raspberries
• 2 scoops / 100ml Vanilla Ice Cream, Soft Scoop, Light, Wall's*
• 1 tsp icing sugar

Method

1. Make the coulis:
   Puree a handful (50g) of raspberries with the icing sugar in a food processor until smooth. Strain through a fine sieve to remove the seeds and set aside.
2. Fill the pancakes:
   Place 50g raspberries in each pancake and roll it up.
3. Top with a scoop of ice cream.
4. Drizzle with raspberry coulis.
5. Decorate with remaining raspberries.
6. Enjoy immediately!

 

 

Caramelized Cinnamon Apple Pancake Filling

Makes 2 pancakes (serves 2)

Ingredients

• 2 Pancakes - see Pancake Mix Recipe
• 1 Large Granny Smith Apple
• 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
• ½oz/14g Half Fat Butter/Spread
• 2 tsp Brown Sugar
• ¼tsp Ground Cinnamon (or to taste)
• 2 tsp/50g Half Fat Creme Fraiche (optional)

Method

1. Peel, core and slice the apple into 12 wedges. Cut each wedge into 3 to make bite sized chunks. Drizzle with lemon juice.
2. Heat the butter in a frying pan until sizzling, add the apple and cook on a high heat for 2 minutes (or until apple just begins to brown).
3. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and stir well to coat. Cook for a further 2-3 minutes until caramelized, remove from heat.
4. Spoon ¼ apple mixture onto pancake and  top with 1 tsp Creme Fraiche (optional). Fold pancake in half, spoon further ¼ apple mixture on top and fold pancake in half again.
5. Repeat for 2nd pancake.
6. Serve immediately.

 

Pineapple, Mango & Passion Fruit Pancake Filling

Makes 2 pancakes (serves 2)

Ingredients

• 2 Pancakes - see Pancake Mix Recipe
• 1 Pack/200g Fresh Fruit Salad,
  we used Pineapple, Passion Fruit and Mango from Tesco's*

Method

1. Spoon half the fruit salad onto each of the pancakes, fold and serve.
2. Yes - this really is one for all kitchen cheats out there!