Banana Pancakes

Name: Banana Pancakes (Panqueques de Plátano)
Yield: Serves 3 to 4
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon, preferably canela (Mexican cinnamon); 2 very ripe bananas, mashed well; 2 cups all-purpose flour; 3 tablespoons sugar; 2 to 2¼ cups buttermilk; 2 large eggs; 2 tablespoons melted butter, plus butter or oil to grease a skillet or griddle; ½ teaspoon salt; 2½ teaspoons baking powder; ⅛ teaspoon ground ginger

Panqueques de Plátano

Preparation info

Serves
3 to 4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Dos Caminos Mexican Street Food

By Ivy Stark

Published 2013

About

This is a good recipe for your whole family to enjoy. For grown-ups, you might top them with sliced bananas sautéed in a little butter and rum. Pancakes came to Mexico from the United States. They call them panqueques, pronounced pan-KAY-keys.

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar
2½ teaspoons

Americas
Mexico
Central America
Breakfast
Vegetarian

Method

Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and ginger together into a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the bananas, eggs, and 2 cups of buttermilk together; add to flour mixture, stirring only until smooth. Stir in the melted butter. If the batter seems too thick