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one-cup pancakes, tropical yogurt and mango (uk version - metric)

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4

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These are the easiest pancakes to make – you don’t even need scales to weigh your ingredients. All you need is a cup or a mug. As long as you use the same cup for measuring both the flour and the milk, you’ll be laughing! If you use self-raising flour the pancakes will be more American in style, lovely and fluffy and thick. Plain flour will give you thinner ones, more like European crêpes. Great with a sprinkling of sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice (very old school!), or drizzled with maple syrup and served with crispy bacon. Try throwing a handful of blueberries into the batter mix if making American-style pancakes. I also love eating them with Rachel’s coconut yoghurt, which is delicious. I’ve given you a recipe here for making your own similar tropical-flavored yoghurt. It actually gets better if you let it stand in the fridge for a few hours, as the coconut will soften.

To make your yogurt and your pancake batter
Peel your bananas, put them into a large bowl and mash them with a fork
• Add the coconut and the yogurt and mix well
• Put this to one side until needed and get started on your pancakes
• Crack your egg into a large mixing bowl
• Add your flour, milk and a pinch of sea salt
• Whisk everything together until you’ve got a lovely, smooth batter • Slice the mangoes away from their stones, score the flesh across and push outwards so that you can slice it off the skin to give you diced mango

To cook your pancakes
Put a large frying pan on a medium heat and add half the butter
• When the butter has melted and the pan is nice and hot, use a ladle to spoon the batter into the pan
• Each ladleful will make 1 pancake – they’re quite small, so you can cook several at a time
• Cook for 1 to 2 minutes and use a spatula to turn them over when they start to brown on the bottom and get little bubbles on the top
• When cooked on both sides, transfer them to a plate, carefully wipe the pan clean with kitchen paper, add the rest of the
butter and start again
• Keep going until all the batter is used up

To serve your pancakes
Serve straight away, topped with a dollop of flavored yoghurt, the diced fresh mango, and wedges of lime for squeezing over

• from Jamie's Ministry of Food

ingredients

For the flavored yoghurt
• 2 ripe bananas
• a handful of desiccated coconut
• 250g natural yoghurt

For the pancakes
• 1 egg, preferably free-range or organic
• 1 cup of self-raising flour (see intro)
• 1 cup of milk (see intro)
• sea salt
• 25g butter
• 2 ripe mangoes
• 1 lime

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1. by Julia on Thu 12 Apr 2012 @ 13:58

This made an amazing brunch here in Rwanda...I am officially the pancake queen. I caramelized pineapple chunks in margarine and brown sugar. All easily available and cheap ingredients - yummy! Thank you for the simple recipe that didn't require weighing ingredients :-)

2. by Anita on Sat 25 Feb 2012 @ 19:17

Hi Rachel92. My 13yr old daughter makes this recipe most Sundays and she prefers the thinner, crepe-style pancake and uses plain flour only. After making a few batches, she found that by adding 1 tablespoonful of either melted butter or rice bran oil per cup of milk, it helped the pancakes not stick and also, she didn't need to add any extra butter/oil to the pan once she started cooking.<br /> If you are not sure still, add either a 1/2 tsp salt (if a savory pancake) or 2 tsp sugar and this will take away the "floury" taste of the flour. We've never done this with this recipe but I have with others. This is really a great recipe and most definitely a family favourite. Cheers.

3. by Rachel92 on Mon 13 Feb 2012 @ 14:07

Hey, does it make much difference if you don't use self-rising flour? Will it taste bad? When I was a kid my mom always made Finnish-style pancakes (she still does) and they're more crêpe-ish (because there are so many eggs and so much milk used), but denser. Is that what will happen if I use normal flour? Will my pancakes be super dense? Would they still taste decent?<br /> <br /> Rachel

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