Banana Egg Pancakes

I could gush on and on about how this is such a fantastic recipe, but then we'd never get to the part where I tell you about how to make these for yourself and that would defeat the purpose of it, so I'll keep the praises short

• This has no flour (unless you want it to, but you'd add ground oats aka 'oat flour')

• It has bananas, which I love

• Eggs = protein

• It is so versatile! There's a lot you can add to this to modify its flavor (e.g. cocoa + peanut butter/cinnamon) so it doesn't get boring

• If you're being ridiculously lazy, this can be microwaved too and you'd get something of a 'cakey' texture. Which is cool.

Okay

So

Ingredients

Technically just the two ingredients listed in the name would do, but I like mine to have more things:

• Banana (1 large, ripe, mashed)

• Egg (1)

• Salt (so important! If nothing else, please put a pinch)

• Cinnamon (as much as you like…)

• Baking powder (1/2 teaspoon - I feel like it makes these just that much softer and fluffier)

• A splash of milk (optional, for when the egg is a bit too small or if you've added oat flour)

• Oat flour (if you want something thicker or if somehow your mixture is too liquidy and you need it to come together)

• Optional add ins

• Dry fruit

• Peanut butter + cocoa powder

• Seeds (sunflower, pumpkin)

Steps

• Mix all the main ingredients in a bowl.

• On the stove heat a little oil/butter/ghee and once it's hot enough (establish this by dropping a tiny drop of your mix onto the gas, if it sizzles, it's hot enough) add the rest of the mix. Or add a little bit, depending on how many pancakes you want/what size

• Tip: Beware of using the flame on max to get the oil/ghee/butter hot; it turns out, it can get too hot and then your pancake will blacken and that's not ideal

• Cook

• Remove

• Eat

Serving suggestions

• Do what makes you happy. Here are just two of my favorite ideas:

1. Rolled up pancakes with sliced banana inside and peanut butter on the top. The raisins and stuff were just to beautify (because I make some effort with aesthetics, okay)

2. Stacked with strained 'Greek' yogurt in between layers and decorated to look like absolute heaven. And it tastes so good, too!

I really don't think you can go the honey/maple syrup drizzle route - to me this tastes sweet enough as it is, but hey, you do you.

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