Grain-Free Plantain Pancakes (1 Blender!)

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Stack of grain-free plantain pancakes topped with peanut butter, berry compote, and maple syrup

Pancakes that come collectively in a blender with easy, entire meals components and no flour?! It’s true, pals. Meet your new favourite EASY, nutrient-packed breakfast: plantain pancakes!

Simply 7 components and quarter-hour required for these healthful, freezer-friendly goals. Bonus? They’re gluten-free and dairy-free, too. Let’s make pancakes!

Green plantain, eggs, maple syrup, salt, cinnamon, butter, baking powder, and vanilla

Origin of Plantain Pancakes

Plantains are a significant meals staple in lots of tropical areas of the world, together with the Caribbean, Latin America, and West and Central Africa. They’re loved fried, boiled, roasted, as chips, for dessert, and extra.

However making them into PANCAKES? Our seek for the place the idea first originated fell brief, however we do know we’re NOT the primary to assume it’s an incredible thought! In Ghana, yellow (ripe) plantains are made into savory pancakes referred to as kaklo or tatale. Be taught extra about that model and discover a recipe over on Afia Amoako’s weblog.

Our impressed tackle the idea heads in a sweeter (vs. extra savory) path!

Methods to Make Plantain Pancakes

These plantain pancakes depend on GREEN plantains because the starchy ingredient that makes them 100% grain-free with none added flours. Inexperienced plantains are additionally wealthy in a particular kind of fiber referred to as resistant starch that helps hold your intestine micro organism blissful!

After peeling the plantains, we mix them up with the opposite components, the principle one being eggs. The eggs act as a pure leavening, offering fluffiness and stopping the pancakes from being dense.

These two entire meals components (eggs + plantain) guarantee these pancakes are FULL of nutritional vitamins and minerals, together with magnesium, potassium, choline, B nutritional vitamins, and extra!

Blender with sliced green plantain, eggs, salt, baking powder, vanilla, and cinnamon

Then just some extra components, and we’re able to cook dinner! Maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt add sweetness and taste and provides these pancakes a delicate French toast taste (which we love!).

Optionally available baking powder provides a bit extra fluffiness however largely simply creates extra bubbles within the pancake, serving to you already know when it’s able to flip. We often go away it out!

Two plantain pancakes cooking in a cast iron skillet

Then all that’s left is cooking in an oiled skillet till fluffy and golden brown and serving along with your favourite pancake toppings!

Drizzling maple syrup onto a stack of plantain pancakes

We love them with berry compote or sliced bananas, Nutella or nut butter, and an additional drizzle of maple syrup once we’re feeling decadent!

Slice removed from a stack of grain-free pancakes

We hope you LOVE these plantain pancakes! They’re:

WholesomeGrain-freeLightly sweetenedFluffyFreezer-friendly& SO fast & straightforward!

Made with pantry staples and components that hold properly, these pancakes are the right technique to make a healthful breakfast if you’re working low on components or wish to dissipate a inexperienced plantain. And so they hold properly within the freezer so you may make as soon as and revel in all week (or month)!

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Fork spearing a big slice of a stack of pancakes

Prep Time 5minutes

Prepare dinner Time 10minutes

Complete Time 15minutes

Servings 2(three-pancake servings)

Course Breakfast, Brunch

Delicacies Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Grain-Free

Freezer Pleasant 1 month

Does it hold? 3-4 Days

Prepare dinner ModeForestall your display screen from going darkish

1inexperienced (agency)*plantain, peeled and sliced2gianteggs* (natural, pasture-raised when attainable)1Tbspmaple syrup(or honey)1tspvanilla extract1/2tspfloor cinnamon1/2tspbaking powder (non-obligatory // for additional fluffiness)1wholesome pinchsea saltCoconut oil or dairy-free butter(for cooking // dairy butter works, too)

ADD-INS non-obligatory

Recent or frozen blueberries(we like frozen wild blueberries)Chocolate chips(so good! // dairy-free as wanted)

Trim the ends off the plantain and discard. To peel the plantain, use the tip of your knife to make a shallow minimize lengthwise via the peel, doing all your finest to not pierce the flesh of the plantain. Then slide your thumb underneath the peel and peel away from the minimize, eradicating and discarding the peel. Minimize the plantain into ~1 ½ inch slices.

To a blender, add the sliced plantain, eggs, maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon, baking powder (non-obligatory), and sea salt. Mix till easy with no chunks of plantain remaining, about 30-45 seconds.

Warmth a big forged iron or non-stick skillet (or a griddle) over medium warmth. As soon as scorching, add dairy-free butter or coconut oil — it ought to sizzle when scorching sufficient. Scale back the warmth if the oil/butter is smoking.

Add ~1/4 cup measurements of batter into the skillet and cook dinner for 2-3 minutes, till the sides are set (choice to sprinkle blueberries or chocolate chips over the batter earlier than flipping). Flip and cook dinner for one more 1-2 minutes on the opposite facet, till golden on each side. Proceed cooking with the remaining batter, including extra coconut oil or dairy-free butter to the skillet if it appears to be like dry.

Serve heat along with your selection of toppings. We like berry compote or sliced bananas, home made Nutella or nut butter, and maple syrup (all non-obligatory).

Greatest when contemporary, however leftover pancakes will hold saved in a sealed container within the fridge for 3-4 days or within the freezer for as much as 1 month. Reheat within the microwave, oven, or toaster oven till heat.

*Inexperienced plantains are agency when pressed and work finest on this recipe. Ripe plantains are yellow/brown and work okay, however we discovered they created a thinner, denser, much less fluffy pancake. They can even be sweeter, so it’s possible you’ll wish to use much less maple syrup.*Eggs are important on this recipe for construction and fluffiness. In case you’re searching for a vegan choice, attempt our 1-Bowl Vegan Banana Oat Pancakes.*Diet data is a tough estimate calculated with 2 tsp coconut oil for cooking and with out non-obligatory components.

Serving: 1(three-pancake) servingEnergy: 348Carbohydrates: 56.7gProtein: 7.7gFats: 9.6gSaturated Fats: 5.4gPolyunsaturated Fats: 1.1gMonounsaturated Fats: 2.3gTrans Fats: 0gLdl cholesterol: 185mgSodium: 232mgPotassium: 672mgFiber: 3.3gSugar: 9.3gVitamin A: 267IUVitamin C: 27mgCalcium: 107mgIron: 1.9mg