BANANA PANCAKES

BANANA PANCAKES

Pancakes are a surprisingly economical breakfast. I like mine American-style and puffed up with baking powder. You can mash leftover bananas that are too ripe to snack on into these for a sweet start to the day.
- Miss South

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Ingredients

plain flour 200g
baking powder 1 tsp
ground ginger 1 tsp
salt a pinch
egg 2 large
butter 30g, melted
milk 250ml
bananas 2, mashed

Method

To make the pancakes, put the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet in another and then mix together, adding in the mashed banana at the end. The batter should be just loose enough to spoon easily, but will look a bit lumpy. Don't beat until smooth. Set the batter aside for 20 minutes if you can as this makes it rise better when cooking.
Cook the pancakes in a hot pan. The added butter in the batter means you don't need to grease the pan each time, but don't be surprised if you have to sacrifice the first one to the pancake gods. Keep them warm until needed. I don't need to serve these with anything else, but golden syrup is rather lovely.