Plantain Pancakes Recipe

Light and fluffy pancakes featuring ripe plantains are spiced with cardamom, cinnamon, and ginger, perfect with chocolate sauce or maple syrup.

Category Tags:

Breakfast

Cuisine Tags:

African

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Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 200 F.

  2. Peel and cut the plantain into small chunks.

  3. In a blender, combine plantain, milk, eggs, butter or oil, vanilla extract, ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, baking powder, and sea salt; pulse for 30 seconds to 1 minute.

  4. Add flour, blend, scrape sides, and blend again until smooth.

  5. Pour batter into a bowl and let stand for 10 minutes.

  6. Heat a greased non-stick pan over low-medium heat.

  7. Scoop 1/4 cup portions of batter into the pan and cook for 2 to 3 minutes until edges set and bubbles appear.

  8. Flip pancakes and cook for about 1 minute until browned; transfer cooked pancakes to the warm oven.

  9. Repeat with remaining batter.

  10. Serve pancakes with chocolate sauce, strawberries, and mint.

Nutritional Info (per serving)

Calories: 389 kcal
Carbohydrate: 74 g
Cholesterol: 51 mg
Fiber: 4 g
Protein: 9 g
Saturated Fat: 2 g
Sodium: 343 mg
Sugar: 33 g
Fat: 7 g
Unsaturated Fat: 0 g