Banana pancakes with pears and honey

Ninka loves all kinds of American-style pancakes. Much more than our thin Polish pancakes. This time I made pancakes, or rather little banana pancakes, with pears, honey and, of course, cinnamon.

Don’t kid yourselves about this being a diet breakfast… Banana, pear, honey — it all sounds very healthy, but there’s more than a calorie or two in there. Still, it’s probably healthy. Especially on a beautiful Saturday like yesterday, when we needed energy to play at the playground and in the pool.

So I recommend them. The thing about pancakes, these little American-style ones, is that you can serve them all sorts of ways, and you can vary the batter too. Give it a go yourselves. Especially with pears, which are so good this time of year. Highly recommended!

At a glance: 

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Serves: these quantities make exactly 8 – 9 little pancakes (the size shown in the photos), enough for 3 – 4 people

How many calories: I don’t count calories at breakfast

Ingredients for a cheerful little breakfast:

• 4 heaped tablespoons of wheat flour
• 1 hen’s egg
• 2 level tablespoons of thick sour cream, 18% fat
• 250 ml of kefir
• 2 tablespoons of butter
• 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• 1 ripe banana
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
• a pinch of salt

Recipe for little pancakes with bananas, pears, honey and cinnamon. Yum:

1. I melted two tablespoons of butter in a small frying pan.

2. I put 4 heaped tablespoons of flour, the bicarbonate of soda and a pinch of salt in a deep bowl. I cracked in the egg and mixed everything together.

3. I added the banana cut into thin strips, the kefir, the sour cream and the cinnamon. I mixed it all very thoroughly. The mixture was quite thick. I poured in the butter I’d melted earlier and mixed again. The batter for these little pancakes is definitely thicker than for ordinary American pancakes or crêpes. You can see what it looks like in the photo below. The banana needs to be well mashed.

4. Over the „flame” (my induction hob, that is, set to 5 on a scale of 1 – 10), I heated a pancake pan (ha, I got one as a present recently) and poured in about three tablespoons of batter per pancake (see the photos). I fried them for about 1 – 2 minutes on the first side and about 1 minute on the other after flipping. Until golden.

5. Once the pancakes were on the plate, I drizzled them with honey, sprinkled them with cinnamon and scattered sliced pear on top. All done. Enjoy!