Behold the humble pikelet! I’d forgotten all about you until I had some almost-gone bananas and couldn’t be bothered making muffins for afternoon tea. Instead, I mixed up a batch of pikelet batter, added the mashed banana and upped the flour until the mix was just right. So quick, so easy, so ready-to-go. These turned out splendidly and they would have made the perfect lunch box snack if there had been any left over… which there was not.
Banana buttermilk pikelets
You’ll need
1 1/4 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
2 teaspoons caster sugar
3/4 cup buttermlk
1 egg
2 over-ripe bananas, mashed
Butter for greasing
You’ll also need
A large mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Whisk
Large frypan
Grease-proof paper
Tablespoon
Egg flipper thingy
Sift flour and sugar together in a large mixing bowl and make a well in the centre.
Whisk buttermilk and egg together and then pour into the dry mix. Stir together until nice and smooth. Add the mashed banana and stir gently.
Heat the frypan over medium heat. Put a little butter on the grease-proof paper and wipe around pan. Drop a tablespoon of batter into the pan – you should be able to fit 3 or 4, depending on how big your pan is. Cook for about 1 minute, until bubbles start to rise in the batter.
Use your egg flipper thingy to turn the pikelets over. Cook on the other side for about 1 minute and remove from pan.
Cool on a wire rack. Serve cold with butter and jam or something healthier like tahini paste (joking – golden syrup, maple syrup or just plain butter are nice).
Notes
If you don’t have buttermilk, just use milk.
If you don’t have spotty bananas that no one wants to eat, puree up an apple and stick that in. Mash up some strawberries or blueberries – yum. Or just leave fruit out altogether and reduce the flour by 1/4 cup.
If you don’t have spotty bananas that no one wants to eat, puree up an apple and stick that in. Mash up some strawberries or blueberries – yum. Or just leave fruit out altogether and reduce the flour by 1/4 cup.
If keeping for lunch boxes, store in an airtight container in the fridge for about a week.
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