Serves: 4 (394 Calories)
Total calories per recipe: 1574
Preparation Time: 10 minutes.
INGREDIENTS
2 Small red onions, diced (160g) -44 calories
2 cloves garlic, crushed – 8 calories
400g can corn kernels, drained and rinsed – 172 calories
2 tbsp (28g) coriander stems, chopped fine – 6 calories
1 tsp olive oil – 40 calories
450g sweet potato, peeled and chopped – 293 calories
1/2 cup low fat milk – 50 calories
1/4 cup Polenta (corn meal) – 116 calories
2 Tablespoons Nutritional Yeast Flakes- 19 calories
3/4 cup Besan Flour (chickpea flour)- 274 calories
1/2 cup organic wheat flour – 260 calories
1 tsp. Baking powder (optional) – 8 calories
1/4 tsp. Sea salt – neg calories
Freshly ground black pepper – neg calories
2 large egg whites – 30 calories
2 large egg, whole – 148 calories
Garnish:
50g grated Parmesan – 48 calories
2 medium tomatoes (300g) – 60 calories
METHOD
- Cook sweet potato in microwave or steam until soft. Mash with a fork and milk set aside.
- Heat skillet and add olive oil. Immediately add red onions, garlic, corn kernels and coriander. Lightly sauté 2 minutes.
- In a large bowl combine sifted flours, baking powder, Polenta, yeast flakes and seasoning.
- Add mashed sweet potato and onion mix to dry ingredients and mix.
- Finally add eggs, egg whites and enough water to create a thick pancake batter.
- Dry fry in non-stick skillet for 3 minutes each side or until well browned.
- Top with 1/2 sliced tomato and grated Parmesan and serve.
NOTES:
Nutritional Yeast Flakes have cheese flavour and are a great Vitamin B addition to your meal. The B vitamin is great for metabolism!
chickpea flour is high in protein as are eggs and will help fill you.
This recipe is a large filling serve. For a snack or children you may use half the batter recommended.