Here'south your go-to banana pancakes recipe! They're massively fluffy, succulent, and quick and like shooting fish in a barrel to whip up.

Banana pancakes

If at that place'due south a smell of cozy, it's wafting pancakes on a hot griddle. Right? It's the aroma of lazy mornings, slanted morn light, and cradling a warm mug of java. So here'south the just recipe yous need to create that magic: our become-to Assistant Pancakes recipe! This one is totally archetype: with simple ingredients that you probably already have on hand. Yous can customize it to unlike diets, and to the amount of bananas you accept on manus. It's totally flexible for y'all and your morning! This i is the one we utilise for special breakfasts or brunches for our family…and it's e'er a hitting.

How to brand assistant pancakes: some tips!

There are simply a few things to notation about making this banana pancakes recipe. Simply all in all, information technology's the definition of simple. Hither's what to know:

  • Ripe bananas are best. Don't compromise on this! The riper the banana, the better that beautiful scent in your pancakes. Are your bananas still green? Here's a trick: you can ripen bananas in the oven. See below for more nearly customizing the recipe to your bananas!
  • Cook the batter on low heat. This is what cooks pancakes to perfection: gold on the outside and cooked through on the inside. Come across beneath for more on that.

You can use any number of bananas: hither's how!

The other day, we wanted to brand assistant pancakes: only we merely had one of that magical yellowish fruit on manus. Can you lot make banana pancakes with ane assistant? Yep! We've tested this recipe then it works with different amounts of bananas. Here's what to know:

  • How many mashed bananas in a loving cup? Information technology depends on their size. 1 minor banana = ¼ cup mashed. one medium banana = ⅓ cup mashed. 1 big banana = ½ cup mashed. 1 extra big banana = ¾ loving cup mashed.
  • This recipe works with ½ cup, ¾ loving cup or one loving cup mashed banana. Simply add a few tablespoons additional milk to the batter until information technology comes to a pourable consistency.
Banana pancakes

How to cook pancakes: low and slow

The key to cooking a pancake to perfection? Here are two tips yous can apply to cook them right every time. Trust us: we've made lots of mistakes in this area!

  • Use depression to medium low heat. Cooking the pancakes slowly avoids getting them blackened on the outside and raw on the inside.
  • When to flip? When the bubbles form. Wait until bubbling offset to class on the surface of the pancake: then flip it! Information technology's the indication that it's cooked through.

Banana pancake variations: vegan, gluten gratis and more!

These banana pancakes are classic style: they're made with all purpose flour and egg. But practice you have a dietary preference and desire to modify information technology up? Or want to add together some mix-ins? We've got options! Here's what to do to modify this recipe:

  • Vegan: Become to Vegan Banana Pancakes.
  • Gluten free: Go to our Banana Oatmeal Pancakes instead.
  • Whole wheat: Substitute white whole wheat flour for the all-purpose flour, or apply ½ whole wheat and one-half all-purpose flour
  • Banana blueberry pancakes: Use one cup fresh or frozen blueberries. Identify them right onto the pancakes later on yous've poured them onto the griddle (don't put them into the concoction).
  • Banana chocolate chip: Employ ¼ cup chocolate fries. Same idea equally above.
Banana pancakes

Assistant pancake toppings

What do yous put on your assistant pancakes? We're simple over here! Here'southward the combination we think is pure perfection — and a few other ideas in case you want to mix it up.

  • Almond butter, sliced bananas and maple: This is our platonic topping for a stack of banana-flavored flapjacks. It'southward simple and complements the flavors perfectly, in our minds. A few other ideas…
  • Atomic number 82&J: Apply peanut butter and bootleg strawberry chia jam.
  • Fruit sauce: Add together strawberry sauce, strawberry puree, raspberry sauce, or huckleberry sauce for a fancy breakfast.

How about y'all: what exercise you similar on your banana pancakes?

More than pancake recipes

There'southward lots more where these come from! Option from some of these favorite pancake recipes:

  • All-time-E'er Oatmeal Pancakes are really the best; they're made with 100% oats and taste like cake
  • Cottage Cheese Pancakes or Lemon Ricotta Pancakes These incredible loftier poly peptide pancakes taste like French toast!
  • Fluffy Almond Flour Pancakes are gluten free and deliciously vanilla scented: a full care for!
  • Cozy Applesauce Pancakes are another favorite: cozy and cinnamon-scented
  • Become-To Vegan Pancakes have a secret substitute for eggs
  • Peanut Butter Pancakes play upward the Lead!

This banana pancake recipe is…

Vegetarian. For vegan, follow the modifications in the recipe beneath. For gluten-free, become to Banana Oatmeal Pancakes.

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Hither'south your go-to banana pancakes recipe! They're massively fluffy, succulent, and quick and easy to whip up.


  • ¾ cup mashed ripe banana* (about iii small, ii medium or 1 extra large)
  • 1 big egg (or flax egg for vegan)
  • 1 tablespoon neutral oil
  • ¾ cup milk of choice (2% or non-dairy milk)
  • ane loving cup all-purpose flour**
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon blistering powder
  • two tablespoons light brown sugar (or granulated sugar)
  • ½ teaspoon kosher common salt
  • To serve: almond butter, banana slices, honey or maple syrup

  1. In a medium bowl, mash the banana and mensurate information technology out. Whisk in the egg, neutral oil, and milk.
  2. In a dissever basin bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, cinnamon, blistering pulverisation, saccharide, and kosher salt.
  3. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until a smooth, thick batter forms. (If needed, you tin add another tablespoon of milk to become it to a pourable consistency, but you shouldn't need it for the start batch.)
  4. Lightly grease a skillet with butter and wipe off extra grease with a paper towel. Heat the skillet over depression heat. Pour the concoction into small-scale circles: well-nigh ¼ cup each. Cook the pancakes until the bubbles pop on the pinnacle and the bottoms are golden: low and tiresome is the key! Then flip them and melt until aureate on the other side.
  5. If necessary, add together a tiny splash of milk to the concoction for the 2nd batch so it comes to a pourable consistency. Repeat with the remaining batter, adjusting the heat every bit necessary (the skillet can become very hot on the second batch). Identify the cooked pancakes nether an inverted bowl to keep them warm. Serve immediately with desired toppings.

Notes

*Typically ane small banana equals ¼ loving cup mashed, and 1 large is ½ cup mashed. Y'all can make this recipe with ½ cup mashed banana if that's all you have. But add together virtually 2 more tablespoons milk to the batter so it comes to a pourable consistency before cooking. You tin besides increase to 1 cup mashed assistant for a more intense banana flavor, and employ the same principles.

*For gluten free banana pancakes, go to Assistant Oatmeal Pancakes.

  • Category: Breakfast
  • Method: Stovetop
  • Cuisine: Breakfast
  • Diet: Vegetarian

Keywords: Banana pancakes, banana pancakes recipe

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Sonja & Alex

Come across Sonja and Alex Overhiser: Husband and wife. Practiced home cooks. Authors of recipes you'll want to make over again and over again.