My new breakfast fave - green banana flour pancakes

[mific]

I’ve been trying out green banana flour. It’s not hard to get – I did a search and was able to find a local company who make it here and mailorder it. A similar search located several US options, including the dreaded Amazon. As well as being GF, green banana flour’s got potassium, magnesium, zinc, resistant starch, fibre, and other goodies. It only tastes faintly banana-like, and less so when cooked. I like it for breakfast pancakes, and it’s my go-to flour these days for dusting fish and making batter, as well. It's reasonably keto-friendly, as most of the starch is resistant starch so not absorbed.

Pancakes for 1 hungry person
(or use whatever recipe you usually do, just sub in green banana flour for other GF flour)
½ cup green banana flour
1 tsp baking powder
Salt to taste
1 tsp sweetener
1 egg
½ cup water (or use milk or nutmilk, if preferred)

Instructions:
Mix well (I use a whisk), and tip into a hot, greased frying pan (I use a spray of light olive oil, plus a knob of butter). Options are to make smaller ‘hotcake’ shaped pancakes (here we’d call them pikelets if they were 4”-6” long), or to dilute the mix a little more with water and make a thinner, full-pan pancake, kind of like a rustic crepe. If making a large, thin pancake, turn the heat down after flipping it and let it sit until the edges go crispy.

I like both types – I have the hotcake ones with melted butter and (low carb, fake) maple syrup, and I wrap up cheesy fried eggs in the large pancake. I get a plate of 2-3 smaller hotcakes, and 1 large pancake, out of these ingredients - the pics below are all from the recipe above. For the second, full-pan pancake, if the batter’s been sitting a little while it’ll thicken, so whisk in a bit more water or milk before pouring it out. You can barely taste the banana, and I don’t care that the flour makes them a little darker than white-flour pancakes. Yum!

Comments

[nerakrose]

I've never heard of green banana flour before and I'm instantly intrigued!! and because my brain works that way I'm tempted to order a bag and try making banana bread out of it first thing for extra banana-y banana bread...

[mific]

Hopefully it'd work well - use the usual amount of ripe banana as the gb flour really hardly tastes of them.

[nerakrose]

I believe you! it just really tickles me to be able to say that a bread is made entirely of bananas except for the eggs, raising agent, and a bit of sugar. alas my oven doesn't work so if I'm getting this it'll be for pancakes. yours look SO good and I'm very into the idea of wrapping cheesy fried eggs in them.

[loligo]

I used to make a similar recipe using green plantains mixed up in a blender with the other batter ingredients. I really liked them, but my kids eventually got tired of them.

[mific]

Green plantains or bananas also make pretty good french fry alternatives, deep fried - kids'd probably like those a bit more. :)