Stacked Potato Blintzes with Bacon and Bananas

Name: Stacked Potato Blintzes with Bacon and Bananas
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 egg yolk; About 100 ml (3½ fl oz) full-fat milk; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 175 g (6 oz) warm mashed potato (made without any butter, milk or cream); 75 g (3 oz) plain flour; 1 egg; 8 streaky bacon rashers, rind removed; 1 tablespoon brown sugar; 25 g (1 oz) unsalted butter; 2 large bananas; 100 ml (3½ fl oz) maple syrup

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Passion for Potatoes

By Paul Gayler

Published 2010

About

Here’s a wonderful breakfast dish featuring the unusual combination of crisp bacon and sweet bananas.

Ingredients

2 large bananas
25 g (1 oz) unsalted butter
1

Breakfast

Method

For the blintzes, mix together the warm mashed potato and flour, then stir in the egg and egg yolk. Gradually add enough milk to make a batter that drops easily off the spoon. Season with salt and pepper. Heat the butter in a non-stick frying pan and drop in about 2 tablespoons of batter at a time to make little pancakes about 5mm (¼ in) thick and 7.5cm (3in) in diameter (you will need 8 pancak