Banana Pancakes with Melted Peanut Butter

Pancake has once again made another come back in my choice of  food for breakfast. The idea to incorporate banana into my pancake batter came when i was replying a comment on banana related food stuff. As usual i was excited and couldn't wait till the next morning to try it out! Instead of using my usual pancake ingredients  i decided to make it simple and see how it will turn out to be. Yup, another experiment! If it turns out great, thumbs up otherwise i'll have a hard time finishing it off!

 

INGREDIENTS
* 1 cup wheat flour
* 1/4 tsp salt
* 1 large egg
* 1 cup water
* 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
* 3 medium bananas, mashed

Method:
1) Sift the flour and salt together in a bowl.
2) Make a well and pour in the egg, water and vanilla extract.
3) Mashed the ripe bananas and add it into the batter.
4) Heat your non stick with a drop or two of olive oil and pour about 1/4 cup of batter onto your non stick.
5) Flip the pancake over when the edge dries up and cook the other side until its thoroughly cooked.
6) Dish it out and put it on a plate. Repeat Step 4 until you finish up your batter.
7) Stack the pancakes so that it will keep warm while you  fry another pancake.
8) Serve with your choice of filling/jam.

Note:
This recipe made about 6 pancakes. If you find that the batter is too thick for your liking, dilute it further with water. You can also replace the water with milk.

When i was much younger and even now at this age, i still love the combination of banana and peanut butter, be it crunchy or the smooth ones. Some of my friends actually think that the banana -peanut butter combination is simply weird and disgusting , I beg to differ! So its rather natural that i reach out for my jar of peanut butter and spread some reasonable amount on my hot banana pancake and let the warmth of the pancake to slightly melt the peanut butter. The combination is just heavenly and irresistible at the same time!

Pancakes with Strawberry Sauce

I'm head over heels for pancakes especially when granny make them for me. I still remember how she'd add some fresh desiccated coconut in the batter and she'd make it real thin like a crepe.

Instead of reinventing her version of pancake, i made my very own version. I'm not exactly sure what should be in the batter so i just followed my gut feelings on this. Usually i'd jst get the pancake premix and jst add milk n eggs there you have it , ur pancake batter.

Ingredients

PANCAKES
* flour
* salt
* sugar
* eggs
* milk
* baking powder
* baking soda
* extra virgin olive oil

Method:
1) Whisk all the ingredients together and let it stand for 30mins - 1 hour
2) Give the non-stick a quick rub with olive oil or butter on a paper towel before you start flippin your pancakes
3) Pour the batter on the non-stick and when tiny holes formed on the surface its time to flip your pancake over
Note :
The usage of oil/butter after each pancake, the surface of your pancakes would turn crispy so to avoid tht only rub your pan with oil/butter once before you start making your pancakes.

Those that fancy a sweeter pancakes, add more sugar/soft brown sugar.

STRAWBERRY SAUCE
* fresh strawberries
* orange juice
* honey

Method:
1) Wash and cut out the stems and leaves of the strawberries and roughly chopped it or cubed it
2) Add freshly squeeze orange juice together with the freshly diced strawberries and bring it to a slow heat , constantly stirring
3) If the orange juice is already sweet, you can omit the honey, otherwise add honey/soft brown sugar until you reach the taste you favour.

Note:
You can add a lil corn flour into the sauce to thicken it. For a great homemade sauce, it would be good to get some really sweet and juicy strawberries. As for me , i made it with strawberries imported from Korea; its really sweet and fragrant.

Roti Jala - Lacy Pancakes

Lacy Pancake's one of my favourite when i was a lil girl till now! When i was lil i always wonder how do they make the pancakes look like that. Finally i had the opportunity to witness how a roti jala seller make a fresh batch of roti jala for the customers. I was amused by how that lil roti jala mold would be able to create such masterpiece. 

I never thought that one day i'll be makin my own lacy pancakes. Here's the list of ingredients you need to make this yummy lacy pancake. 

Lacy Pancake:

2 cups superfine flour
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt2 1/2 cups of coconut milk
pinch of tumeric powder

This dish is usually taken with curry; chicken, fish, beef or even mutton. For lunch, i prepared two types of curry - chicken curry with potatoes and vegetarian curry, the Aloo Gobi style.

For those who has been followin this blog, i'm sure by know you know my style of cookin, yes, thats right, i dont give out the precise unit of measurement of the ingredients i used cuz i have no idea the exact measurement of the ingredients i have on my dish. Whenever i prepare somethin its all bout intuition on how much to put and everythin is to taste.

Chicken Curry

* Whole bird of chicken cut into bite size
* Marinate with salt and pepper for 4 hours or so
* Fry it 

Seasoning:

* Water or chicken broth
* Candlenuts (ground)
* Star anise
* Sliced onions
* Tamarind Juice
* Chicken stock granules
* Ground garlic + shallots
* Thin & thick coconut milk
* Salt and sugar to taste
* Cinnamon Stick ( since i dont have it, i used cinnamon
   powder instead)
* Curry leaves ( only leaves used)
* Curry meat powder ( mix with water & make
   it into a paste) 

First, fry the chicken and set it aside. Next, to make the gravy, stir fry the grinded garlic+ shallots, curry leaves, star anise, cinnamon stick, sliced onions. Add in the curry paste and stir fry till fragrant before adding the tamarind juice. I added some sugar before adding in the tamarind juice. Add in the thin coconut milk when the oil breaks and keep stirring and lastly before you dish out, add the pounded candlenuts and thick coconut milk and let it simmer. If the gravy is too thick to your liking, add water. Add sugar and salt to taste.

 Vegetarian - Aloo Gobi

* onions
* potatoes (cut into cubes)
* cauliflower ( cut into florets)
* curry leaves
* green chillies (cut diagonally) 
* tomatoes ( cut into cubes)
* curry powder
* tomato sauce
* brown sugar
* water

Overall i was happy how the lacy pancakes tasted but i definitely need more practice with the mold! Which means i'll be preparin roti jala for the family again and this time i'm determined to make the strands more fine and also a richer and creamier kind of curry to go with it.