Pancakes! We like pancakes on Saturday mornings, and sometimes Sunday nights and sometimes for lunch and sometimes for dinner. Is there ever a wrong time to serve pancakes? I don’t think so! I mean really. And as much as I love my fish dishes, these can be made in a pinch for a quick meal on Fridays during Lent.
I can find plantains in abundance here in southwest Florida, so why not use them. These pancakes turn out very much like regular pancakes made with wheat and no, they don’t really taste like bananas. They are soft, fluffy, totally delicious, nutrient dense and filling. They are also super easy to make in the blender and even your gluten free or grain free friends could enjoy them. Can you tell that these pancakes really light up my life?!
Let’s get started.
Ingredients: Makes about 20 average size pancakes.
4 average sized plantains or 3 really large plantains
5 eggs (preferably pastured, check out eatwild.com to find a farmer near you)
1t baking soda (here)
1/2t mineral rich salt (here)
1t real vanilla (here)
1/3 c real olive oil or avocado oil (real? huh? see this)
Preheat pan to medium heat (the low side of medium).
Wash and peel the plantains
Break them in half and place them into a high powered blender like this.
Add in the eggs, baking soda, salt, vanilla and oil. Just throw it all right on in. Blend it all up. See how it looks like regular pancake batter?
I just use the blender to pour the batter into a heated and greased pan. You can grease it with real lard from a pastured pig, butter, clarified butter or expeller pressed coconut oil or even real olive oil or avocado oil (why these fats, read here). I cooked mine on medium/low heat. When they get very bubbly in the middle and your spatula can easily flip them, well, turn them over to cook on the other side.
Wasn’t that easy! If you’re like me, you’ll make these over and over again. You’ll find excuses to make them. Don’t forget to top them with a pastured butter (or clarified butter/ghee, expeller pressed coconut oil or real lard from a pastured pig) and real maple syrup or honey.
madison says
would organic bananas work? can you freeze these and reheat?
Rebekah says
They should work. Freezing and reheating may work. I would think that it would. I’ve never tried it.