Swap up your breakfast routine and check out these easy and flavorful banana pancakes! My recipe comes collectively in just some minutes, and it even freezes nicely for a make-ahead breakfast choice. Recipe features a how-to video!
Straightforward Banana Pancakes
If you happen to’re on the lookout for one thing a bit totally different out of your common pancake recipe, you want to attempt these banana pancakes! The style is paying homage to banana bread in pancake type. They’re smooth, fluffy, full of taste, and the children and I are equally in love with them.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Mild and fluffy texture, (simply don’t over-mix the batter!). My recipe contains loads of tricks to keep away from over-mixing, together with utilizing room temperature components, mixing by hand, and stopping as soon as all the things is simply mixed.
- Easy; no fancy components or gear required. Anybody could make these at residence and have success.
- Unbelievable taste from ripe bananas, vanilla, and cinnamon. They don’t even want toppings–my youngsters will eat them plain!
- Finishes in the identical period of time as cooking bacon within the oven, so you possibly can have a full breakfast in simply 20 minutes!
Components
This recipe works finest if your whole components are at room temperature. This helps your batter mix simply and prevents over-mixing. Right here’s what you want!
- Bananas. Virtually anytime you’re baking with bananas, purpose for ripe, spotty, well-browned (however not rotten) fruit. That is simply as true with banana bread or banana muffins as it’s with banana pancakes. These riper bananas are probably the most flavorful and candy, so if you happen to can, attempt to let yours get good and spotty earlier than making this recipe. Additionally a good way to make use of up any uncared for, desperate-looking bananas in your countertop.
- Milk. Whereas buttermilk performs an essential position with taste and texture (and is a essential ingredient in my blueberry pancakes and cornbread), common milk truly works simply effective with right this moment’s recipe. Because of the afore-mentioned overripe bananas, we truly don’t want the additional moisture and taste from buttermilk right here.
- Brown sugar. Brown sugar gives a good looking complement to the banana taste that you simply simply can’t get from traditional white granulated. I keep on with gentle brown sugar, whereas darkish brown might work in a pinch it’s a bit richer in a means that doesn’t swimsuit the pancakes.
- Cinnamon. Whereas not a essential ingredient in banana pancakes and you may depart it out if you happen to’re averse, this ingredient provides to the flavour and offers the top end result an actual banana bread really feel.
- Vanilla and salt. These two components add to the general taste of the opposite components on the checklist. I really like utilizing my do-it-yourself vanilla extract.
SAM’S TIP: The important thing to fluffy pancakes is to not over-mix the batter. Batter that’s combined an excessive amount of will yield dense, flat, rubbery pancakes. Due to this, it’s best to NOT use an electrical mixer with this recipe–simply keep on with a whisk and spatula/spoon.
At present’s recipe was somewhat tough to excellent; including bananas provides further moisture and sugar to the recipe so it’s not so simple as simply mixing mashed bananas into any previous pancake recipe. I in the end ended up modifying my pumpkin pancakes to strike the proper stability (in each the flavour and texture division).
How one can Make Banana Pancakes
- Mash the bananas in a medium bowl, then stir within the milk, eggs, and vanilla till the combination is totally mixed.
- Drizzle within the melted butter whereas whisking, then set the moist components apart. Word that the butter may curdle the combination a bit whenever you add it–this it completely effective.
- Whisk the dry components collectively in a big bowl till mixed, then pour the moist components into the middle.
- Fold the moist and dry components collectively with a spatula till simply mixed. Some small lumps within the batter are simply effective–do NOT over-mix or your pancakes might prove flat and rubbery.
- Brush your skillet with a skinny layer of oil and warmth over medium-low till scorching. Letting the pancake batter relaxation throughout this time is essential; it makes them fluffier and lighter and you could discover that the batter thickens because it sits.
- Scoop pancake batter into your ready pan and cook dinner till the perimeters look set and bubbles start to type and burst on the floor. If the batter doesn’t unfold properly by itself, use a spoon to softly type it into an excellent disk form.
- Flip and cook dinner on the opposite facet, then take away to a plate. Repeat this course of, brushing oil on the pan between every pancake, till you’ve used up your whole batter.
SAM’S TIP: I like to make use of an ice cream scoop so as to add my pancake batter to my pan. I discover this to maintain issues fairly neat and tidy, particularly when working with a thicker pancake batter like this one.
Ceaselessly Requested Questions
Sure. Due to the moisture from the bananas, they might be extra prone to mould sooner when left at room temperature. I like to recommend putting them in an hermetic bag or container within the fridge after which having fun with inside two days. You may as well freeze them and I’ve included directions for this within the recipe card.
Maple syrup and butter and even honey butter are our go-tos, however sliced bananas, blueberries, strawberries, whipped cream, chopped nuts, or chocolate chips would all be nice additions as nicely.
If you happen to’re on the lookout for one thing extra connoisseur or decadent, drizzle some chocolate sauce or caramel sauce excessive!
Sure! You’ll be able to add as much as a cup chocolate chips or nuts to the batter. Peanut butter chips would work nicely too! Fold the add-ins into the batter when the moist and dry components are about midway mixed, this may assist preserve you from unintentionally over-mixing the batter (which, if you happen to recall, might make the pancakes rubbery).
For an intense chocolate/pancake expertise, see my chocolate pancakes.
If you happen to like banana pancakes, attempt my banana espresso cake subsequent!
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Banana Pancakes
Servings: 8 6″ pancakes
Energy: 271kcal
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Directions
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In a medium mixing bowl mix mashed banana, milk, eggs, and vanilla and whisk collectively till totally mixed.
1 cup (250 g) mashed banana, 1 ½ cups (355 ml) entire milk, 2 giant eggs, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
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Slowly drizzle melted, cooled butter into milk combination and whisk till mixed. Put aside whilst you put together your dry components.
4 Tablespoons (56 g) unsalted butter
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In a separate giant mixing bowl, whisk collectively flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt till nicely mixed and any clumps are damaged up.
2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour, ⅓ cup (65 g) gentle brown sugar, 2 teaspoons floor cinnamon, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon desk salt
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Pour the milk combination into the middle of the dry components and use a spatula to softly fold the components collectively till simply mixed. Don’t overmix your batter or pancakes will likely be dense, some small lumps remaining is okay!
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Set your batter apart and calmly brush your skillet with cooking oil. Flip your stovetop warmth to medium-low and permit the skillet to warmth for a number of minutes, if you happen to hover your hand a number of inches above the pan it’s best to really feel the warmth radiating from it.
Impartial cooking oil
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Scoop pancake batter (I wish to scoop mine to be about ½ – ⅔ cup) into the middle of the skillet.
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Prepare dinner till the perimeters start to look cooked and bubbles forming within the batter start to burst, then fastidiously flip the pancake and cook dinner till the opposite facet is golden brown and cooked by way of.
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Take away to a plate and repeat the method till you’ve used all the batter. Evenly brush the skillet with further oil between every pancake.
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Serve heat, we like ours served with butter and maple syrup.
Notes
Storing
Permit pancakes to chill fully earlier than storing. They might be saved in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 2 days or frozen for as much as 2 months. You’ll be able to reheat from frozen within the microwave, within the oven (place on a baking sheet in an excellent layer and heat at 350F/175C for about 10 minutes/till heat), or within the toaster.
Diet
Serving: 16″ pancake | Energy: 271kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 7g | Fats: 9g | Saturated Fats: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 1g | Monounsaturated Fats: 2g | Trans Fats: 0.2g | Ldl cholesterol: 61mg | Sodium: 291mg | Potassium: 235mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 328IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 120mg | Iron: 2mg
Dietary data relies on third-party calculations and must be thought of an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will range based mostly upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking methodology, portion sizes, and extra.
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