Awesome Banana Pancakes

Recipe:

1 ripe banana
1 egg
1 scoop of oats

Method:
Blend
Fry
Flip
Fry
Serve

Toppings:
Berries
Yoghurt
Maple Syrup
Jam
Ice cream
Melted chocolate
Chopped nuts
Honey
Dried fruit
All of the above!

This is not my recipe - it’s so simple, it’s hardly a recipe. Some kind person shared it with me a few years back and I have shared dozens of times. It’s so awesome, it’s only fair that I share it here. They taste amazing.

It’s a fantastic use for over ripe bananas. If the banana isn’t really ripe, then you can use two eggs instead of one. I use a 3fl oz / 85ml heaped scoop - more oats, thicker batter, less oats, runnier batter. It’s the first recipe I taught my boys. My youngest makes it for breakfast a couple of times a week and then drowns it in yoghurt, berries and as much maple syrup as he can get away with. It’s seriously filling, no mid morning hunger pangs. Lots of goodness . . . All good ingredients. Off the top of my head - milk free, nut free, wheat free, dairy free (I don’t count egg as dairy), vegetarian, no added sugar, high GI, no icky stuff . . . minimal, biodegradable packaging. Only downside is you need a high speed blender and I can’t grow my own bananas yet . . . Maybe it will work with Pawpaws - I’ll let you know in eight to twelve years time.

The pictures show four individual pancakes, but you can make one big one in a 7 to 10 inch pan. Use your oil / fat of choice.

I just searched for banana pancake mix - picked the first one that came up and then found out what was in it . . .  (And this is a premium brand apparently - I’m sure I could have found a lot worse)

Bleached enriched
Wheat flour (wheat
Flour enriched with
Niacin. Reduced iron
Thiamine mononitrate
Riboflavin, folic acid)
Sugar, defatted soy
Flour (contains soybean
Oil, soy lecithin
Leavening (sodium
Bicarbonate, sodium
Acid pyrophosphate)
Dextrose. Dried
Buttermilk, corn starch,
Salt. Dried whole eggs.

I’m sure some of you have already discovered this recipe. I hope some of you try this and it brings you as much joy as it’s brought my family. And then share.

I was right - others have discovered pancake alternatives here on permies! And in my part of the world, I grow squash.

Super duper homestead pancakes (with squash!)

I’m going to try my simplified banana version with roast squash i.e. oats, egg and squash.

I normally try and keep things simple and add extras afterwards but I’m intrigued and going to try the super duper recipe replacing squash with banana.