Recipe: Perfect Plantain pancakes

Recipe: Perfect Plantain pancakes Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Plantain pancakes. Mash the plantains in a large bowl with a potato masher until slightly chunky. Add the cornmeal, buttermilk, flour, butter, scallions, onion, ginger and salt and mash and stir with the potato. Plantain pancakes are an astounding choice in case you're searching for an alternate sort of breakfast.

Plantains are starchier than bananas, which makes them work SO well for this recipe.

The sugars and starch provide the bulk and base for these fluffy, dense pancakes.

Green plantains are less ripe (and have less sugars).

You can cook Plantain pancakes using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Plantain pancakes

1. It’s 2 of medium sized overripe plantains.

2. Prepare 2 tbsp of butter.

3. It’s 1 tbsp of caster sugar.

4. Prepare 1 of egg.

5. You need of Oil for frying.

6. You need 1/4 cup of milk or Luke warm water.

7. Prepare 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.

Yellow plantains have a little more sugar but are still very starchy.

Mash the plantains with a wooden spoon or a potato masher until you get purée consistency.

Add the flour gradually (not at once), combine well with the aid of a wooden spoon or spatula.

The batter should look like a purée but not runny.

Plantain pancakes instructions

1. Peel and mash the overripe plantains.

2. Add butter, sugar and egg and mix well.

3. Add the flour and mix.

4. Gradually add the milk or luke warm water, mixing consistently until you achieve a spreadable mix.

5. Heat a frying pan and add one tbsp of oil.

6. When the oil is heated, scoop the batter into the pan, allowing it to spread.

7. When the top starts producing bubbles, then, its time to flip over and let the other side cook.

8. Removes the pancaked and repeat steps 6 & 7 until you exhaust your batter.

9. Enjoy your pancakes on its own or with any other beverage of choice..

On a skillet, heat the oil to medium heat (Do not over heat the oil.

These Plantain Pancakes are so light and fluffy and the texture is on-point.

They freeze incredibly well and reheat in minutes.

The secret is the food processor (or blender).

You need to aerate the eggs before adding the plantains.