Must-Try Breakfast Recipe: Banana Blueberry Pancakes | Future Expat (2024)

Once I discovered how easy it is to make pancakes from scratch, I stopped buying processed pancake mix.

I have a half dozen pancake recipes that I love, but this is one of my favorites. After you try it, I bet you’ll join me in tossing out the pancake mix and focusing on real food pancakes from scratch. There really is no reason to ingest ingredients you can’t pronounce when these pancakes are so easy to make!

Check out the directions below in pictures, and then pop to the bottom of the page for a printable recipe card that has nutritional information.

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1/2 cup oatmeal (optional)
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
1 banana, mashed
2 tbsp applesauce
3/4 cup milk
1 cup blueberries (frozen or fresh)
2 tbsp butter (for frying)

Directions:

Start by mashing up your banana with a fork.

You’ll want to use a ripe banana – one that has spots on the skin or is even totally black.

Next add the applesauce and egg to the banana. Then add the milk and stir it up well.

If you don’t have applesauce, you can substitute vegetable oil. It will taste the same…just won’t be quite as healthy.

In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients and then make a well in the center by pushing the mixture to the edges of the bowl.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix just until you don’t see any dry ingredients anymore.

Add your blueberries last. If you have frozen blueberries, leave them frozen.

Heat a skillet on medium heat, and melt a little butter in the pan.

Add scoops of pancake batter to the pan, making sure the pancakes don’t touch each other.

IMPORTANT: Don’t cook these pancakes on too high of a heat. The batter is thick and it takes a little time to cook them all the way through.

Wait to flip the pancakes until you see small bubbles on top and the bottoms are lightly browned.

If you don’t have any blueberries, you could simply leave them out and have plain banana pancakes, or you could add in 1/2 cup of pecans or walnuts.

One batch gives you about 9 hamburger bun sized pancakes.

Top with maple syrup and serve!

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