Mashed Banana Pancakes - 8/18/2014

Hello, everyone.  Today, while having breakfast, I saw the remainder of my bananas  (5) that I got last week at one of the food pantries was almost ready to toss into the trash.  I decided that I didn't want to waste the bananas.  So, I came up with a recipe for Mashed Banana Pancakes.  Here is what I had on hand.

5 bananas that were mashed in a bowl
3/4 of a cup to 1 cup of All Purpose Flour
1/4 to 1/2 cup of canola oil for frying
Spiced Vanilla Bean Sugar & Pumpkin Pie Spice
(Spices courtesy of Savory Spice Shop)

I placed the flour on the plate and mixed the spiced vanilla bean sugar and pumpkin pie spice into the flour.  Then, I placed the mashed bananas that I had in a bowl into the flour/sugar & spice mixture.  I heated a frying pan and placed some of the oil for frying up the pancakes.  I took two to three spoonfuls of the batter for each pancake and placed them into the frying pan.  It takes longer for these pancakes to cook because it is a thicker batter than your regular buttermilk pancakes.  It took me 4 to 5 minutes to cook on each side to get the doneness that I was looking for.

After cooking each pancake, I placed them on a paper towel lined plate to soak up the excess oil.  This is a picture of my finished product.

It is more mashed banana than flour.  You can substitute gluten free flour instead of the all purpose flour to make it a gluten free dish. This plate would serve about 3 to 4 people.  Accompany this with more fresh fruit, whipped cream and maple syrup (Not that corn syrup want to be pancake syrup).

That's it for this blog post.  Until my next post, have a great day.