Banana Pancake

Banana Pancake:

Pancakes are such easy breakfast / snack idea when you have kids around. It is wholesome and tasty where there is no nagging. This dish has no age bar, anybody will love it for its mild and delicious taste. Banana pancake is one of the favorite of my little toddler, with him around had a hard time clicking the pictures... you see this tiny tods hands in one of the pics below. It is so cute that i resisted to keep it in this space.  Apart from its taste, these pancakes are loaded with healthy nutrients from the banana. Bananas combat depression, make you smarter, cure hangovers, relieve morning sickness, protect against kidney cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis and blindness. So now that we have all good reasons, we sure can go ahead to know how to make it.

Ingredients :

2 cups / maida (wheatflour is a much healthier substitute)

1/4 cup sugar

3-4 tsp unsalted butter

1 cup milk

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp vanilla essence 

3 finely chopped ripe bananas

1/4 tsp salt

3-4 bananas chopped into small rounds (for garnish, this gives an extraordinary taste so don't miss it) 

3-4 tsps cooking oil 

 Method :

Mix all the ingredients except oil and bananas chopped into rounds. 

 The consistency of the batter should be slightly thick not very loose and runny

 Heat a griddle, once it is hot scoop out a laddle full of batter and pour in onto the griddle. Arrange the banana piece on top and sprinkle some oil on the sides of the pancake.

 Flip it over after you see them turning light brown,.

 Let the other side cook and then shut off the flame.

 Here is your delicious pancakes ready to serve with honey / maple syrup or anything you wish for

 This pancake certainly will give you a hard time to keep your kids hands off, the bananas getting cooked with butter and vanilla essence fills up your kitchen with a feel so good aroma.

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Muskmelon pancakes

This is dedicated to my 1.5 years old son Bhavin. Because of his picky eating habit I originated this recipe to fill his tummy and tantalise his lil taste buds. Now this is a super hit Sunday breakfast at home.

 Ingredients: 

1/2 cup cooking butter 

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 cup sugar 

1 cup maida / all purpose flour 

1/2 cup cool milk ( room temp) 

1 cup musk melon purée ( just blend melon pieces)  

Few chopped small pieces of muskmelon 

Cooking oil

Combine flour, baking powder and sugar in a large bowl 

 

 Melt butter

 

Stir together milk, melted butter and musk melon purée in a separate bowl

 

 Pour the liquid mixture into the flour mix

 

 Fold and mix well to form thick batter

 

You can add water at this stage if required. The batter should be of a thick consistency not runny. Add water Nd mix the batter well for 5 mins to get soft fluffy pancakes.

 

 Heat a griddle and smear cooking oil onto it

 

Pour in a ladle full of batter. Don't spread the batter.

The batter will start to for tiny air pockets like this. Drizzle some cooking oil on the sides and top

Arrange cut fruit pieces on the batter

Once the cake cooks on one side by making the batter dry, it's time to flip and cook for about a minute.

Plate them and brush with honey (optional) when hot. This sweet dish can be served as a breakfast, dessert with ice cream or as a snack any time of the day and get you choosy lil ones to eat something delicious healthy and nutritive too.

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