Banana oat pancakes with pink peppercorn plums
We all deserve pancakes in the morning... Make sure your bananas are ripe as they are much sweeter, however, if not, add a tablespoon or two of maple syrup to the pancake batter.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 2 bananas ideally ripe with brown spots
- 2 eggs
- 100 ml milk I used oat milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 130 g rolled oats
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ΒΌ tsp salt
For the plums:
- 300 ml water
- 40 g honey
- A pinch of pink peppercorns
- 1 star anise
- 5 plums
Instructions
- Start with the plums. Combine the water, honey, peppercorns and star anise in a sauce pan. Chop the plums in half and, if they're not too stubborn, gently remove the stones. Submerge them in the syrup and place the pan over a high heat to bring it to the boil. As soon as you see bubbles, reduce the temperature to low and cover the syrup with a piece of greaseproof paper.
- Simmer very gently for 3 minutes then check on the plum halves. If they are still a little firm, keep poaching for another 2 minutes. Poach the plums for a total of 5 minutes then remove the pan from the heat. If the plums have collapsed, remove them from the syrup and leave them to cool on a plate.
- In a large bowl or jug, add the bananas (ideally ripped into chunks), eggs, milk, vanilla, 90g of the oats, baking powder and salt.
- Using a hand blender, puree the lot of it until all the banana is mixed in and the only lumps are little pieces of oat (you won't be able to puree it all). Stir in the remaining 40g of oats.
- Heat a non-stick frying pan and add whatever fat you feel you deserve - I used cooking spray because I've been so greedy this Christmas, but normally I always deserve butter. Let it melt and start to sizzle, then pour in a ladleful of pancake batter.
- If you frying pan is big, you can cook two or three pancakes at once. Cook them on medium heat and flip them over with a spatula when there are bubbles on the uncooked surface. Repeat on the other side until the pancakes are golden - around 2-3 minutes on each side.
- Pile them up on your plates and top with the poached plums and some syrup, a drizzle of honey and a sprinkling of icing sugar.