Trim and Healthy Sausage Pancakes- E
2014
Today I made some yummy and filling pancakes. Breakfast is always hard for me because I don’t like to eat when I first get up. After looking in the fridge and finding some browned ground turkey I had a plan. I made the turkey into breakfast sausage and made some Trim Healthy Pancake batter (page 223 in the Trim Healthy Mama book). I’m going to share with you how I made my sausage and my sausage pancakes.
I put my pre-cooked ground turkey into a small skillet. I used a good handful of it, don’t you like my precise measurements? 
I added to the turkey a little water, homemade sugar-free brown sugar (Gwen has a great recipe), sage, marjoram and salt and pepper. You could add a few red pepper flakes if you like, but I’m a wimp when it comes to spicy. I cooked it on medium heat until it was heated well while my blender did the work to make my low carb/ low fat pancakes.
As the sausage finished up I began to heat my griddle on medium heat. I then took my sausage and put it into little piles on the griddle. I only made 3 pancakes because that was the most I could eat. I think I ended up eating a little over 2.
I then poured my batter over the sausage. The edges took on the shape of my sausage pile so it looked more like flowers (if you’re really imaginative).
Since my edges all oozed together I had to take my spatula and cut through the joined places. I want you to know that we are just simple home cooks here and though we like our food photography to look nice, we want to keep it real too. Yes, I have weird looking pancakes, but they taste awesome!
I had only greased the griddle with a tiny bit of butter (I mean really tiny) and din’t have any issues with them sticking. Often with gluten free and different flours sticking can be a real issue.
These pancakes were really light and satisfying. What a great way to start the day! What do you do to your pancakes to make them special?
- 1 cup Browned Ground Turkey *
- 1 tsp Sugar Free Brown Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Sage
- a dash of Marjoram
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 2 T. Water
- optional: Red Pepper Flakes to taste
- Combine all ingredients in small skillet and heat over medium heat until heated through.
- *If you use ground turkey (or any other lean ground meat) that is less that 96% fat free, make sure you rinse it after you brown it to get the excess fat off.
- If you wanted to do this with raw turkey I would add the spices as it was finished browning.