Banana Pancake

By Parisa Z. Ambwani, Resident since 1983

Serves 3-4

• 1 cup oat flour

• ¼ cup sorghum flour

• ¼ cup flaxseeds flour

• 1 tablespoon almond flour (almond meal)

• 2 teaspoons baking powder (aluminum-free)

• 1 dash sea salt

• 2 medium ripe bananas, mashed

• 2 eggs, slightly beaten

• 1 cup milk plus 2 tablespoons

• 2 tablespoons packed brown sugar

• 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus vegetable oil, for greasing griddle

Garnish: With maple syrup and strawberries

Sift dry ingredients (oat, sorghum, flaxseeds, almond, baking powder and salt) 2-3 times.

Blend wet ingredients (bananas, eggs, milk, brown sugar, and 2 tablespoons olive oil) in blender for a few seconds or until mixed.

Add sifted dry ingredients into wet ingredients and blend for 1 minute to make batter (you should have about three cups of thin batter). Chill batter for a few hours.

Heat greased, non-stick griddle over medium heat. Stir and pour ½ cup of batter onto griddle. Spread out batter; cover griddle for 30 seconds, remove cover and continue cooking until tiny bubbles appear in the batter. Flip the pancake over and continue cooking for 2-3 minutes or until done (please watch pancake carefully so it does not burn.) Serve warm with syrup.

Notes:

1. Test your griddle temperature by adding a tiny amount of batter to a heated griddle. It should be set immediately.

2. You can sift flour (oat, sorghum, flaxseeds, and almond), ahead of time and transfer it to a sterilized tightly covered container and refrigerate for convenience use.

About Parisa Z. Ambwani: Parisa, a native of Persia who moved to Blackhawk in 1983, has a BA in Fine Arts. Deeply influenced by her mother’s cooking, she has spent three decades writing cookbooks and pairing food with her poetry, philosophy, herbs and spices, and herbal teas. Parisa’s unique cookbooks are known for their merging of useful culinary information with a clear understanding of the relationship with other human beings and with the universe. She has followed this recipe to write and photograph seven books and over 1000 recipes that weave her beliefs into caring words on how to live life to the fullest. Learn more by visiting her website, enlightenedrecipes.com.