Healthy Protein Cannoli Recipe!!

Ingredients:

For the Cannoli Shells:

1/4 cup of oat flour (make your own by blending whole oats) 

1/4 cup of liquid egg whites

1/4 cup of vanilla whey 

 2 tbsp of unsweetend vanilla almond milk  

For the Filling:

1/2 cup of low-fat ricotta (or if you want to be extra healthy use low fat greek yogurt instead) 

 

1/4 cup of vanilla protein (I used Gaspari Nutrition MyoFusion)

Directions :

1. First, make your pancake mix by blending all the cannoli ingredients together. Fry up four little round pancakes in a hot non-stick pan coated with low-calorie spray or coconut oil. Bear in mind that you can make three bigger pancakes or even five smaller ones — depending on how big you like your cannoli. To make sure you don’t overcook the pancakes, flip and remove them from the pan as soon as they’re cooked, but before they brown.

2. Wrap each pancake around a cannoli mold.  (Picture of Cannoli mold here)

3. Spray your non-stick pan with more low-calorie spray or coconut oil. Once it’s hot,  manually press your shaped pancake on it to fry each side. As you fry the pancake, you should notice it start to retain its tubular shape. Do this with all the pancakes.

4. Once your pancakes are all cannoli-shaped, it's time to make your frosting. In a bowl mix the ricotta (or greek yogurt if you chose to use) with the protein powder.

5. For piping bag, stick the filling mixture in a small ziplock bag and cut off the corner of the bag to transform it into a pastry chef’s proper-presentation must.

6. Stuff your cannoli shells with filling.

7. Garnish with ground pistachios, or whatever your taste buds desire!  (you can try garnishing with dark melted chocolate or any of your favorite nuts)

8. Enjoy!