Sunday, June 15, 2008

Banana Blueberry Pancakes

Pancakes are a Sunday morning favorite in our home. Normally, I put peanut butter and bananas on top of my regular ole' pancakes, but today I decided to switch it up a bit. I had picked up some blueberries from Costco earlier this week, and since they were from Costco, I of course had a lot of blueberries to use up. I started by making these...all I will say is that if you like blueberry muffins, you must make this, they were amazing. Then this morning I decided to add blueberries to our pancakes, not a groundbreaking decision I realize, but I decided to add bananas as well. The recipe below is my mom's standard pancake recipe, with the additions from this morning in blue.

Banana Blueberry Pancakes
1 1/4 Cups Flour
1 Tablespoon Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Tsp. Baking Powder
- Mix/Sift together (I just use a whisk instead of a sifter, it seems to me to be an unnecessary kitchen gadget)
Add 1 cup of blueberries to dry ingredients, mix until blueberries are coated in flour.

2 Tablespoons Oil
1 egg slightly beaten
1 mashed banana
1 1/4 cup Buttermilk (I only used about a cup because with the bananas and the blueberries added more moisture)

Mix wet and dry ingredients together and mix well. If the batter is too thick, add more buttermilk. Cook over medium-high heat.

They weren't my prettiest pancakes, but they were really, really delicious. I tend to get impatient so I start pouring the pancakes way too big which results in uneven cooking time and ugly pancakes. Maintain your patience and I assure you, you will have beautiful pancakes.
Happy eating! And if you have any suggestions for other pancake variations please share!

2 comments:

Katie said...

It's no secret that you and John are related. He would LOVE this recipe. Now I need to go get some blueberries...

Olive Oyl said...

I am planning making these on Friday for fourth of july... you know, a Red, White, and blueBERRY sort of theme. haha.

Um, and i'm slightly offended that you don't sift. The sifter is one of my favorite kitchen gadgets. It makes cookies so creamy and melt-in-your mouth tasty.

But I love you, so I'll let the comment slide. :)