Banana pancakes with streaky bacon

Preparation time
less than 30 mins

Cooking time
10 to 30 mins

Serves
Serves 4

Hairy Bikers recipes
From The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best

Ingredients

• 55g/2oz butter, cubed
• 275g/9¾oz self–raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 free-range eggs
• 2 tbsp soft light brown sugar
• 300ml/½ pint whole milk
• 1 large banana, roughly chopped
• 1-2 tbsp sunflower oil
• 8 rashers rindless streaky bacon
• maple or golden syrup, to serve

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 110C/225F/Gas ¼.

2. Melt 25g/1oz of the butter in a small pan over a low heat and leave to cool for five minutes.

3. Put the melted butter, flour, baking powder, eggs, sugar and milk in a food processor and blend until smooth.

   

4. Pour into a large bowl and mash the banana into the batter with a potato masher.

5. Melt a little of the oil with a cube of butter in a large non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. Wipe around the base of the pan with a thick wad of kitchen paper.

6. Drop four large serving spoonfuls of the banana pancake mixture into the frying pan, spacing well apart. Cook for three minutes, or until the pancakes rise, bubbles appear and the surface appears dry.

7. Flip over with a palette knife and cook on the other side for a further 2-3 minutes, or until pale golden-brown.

8. Transfer to a heatproof plate and keep warm in the oven while you cook the remaining eight pancakes in exactly the same way.

9. Return the frying pan to the heat and add the streaky bacon. Cook for about three minutes on each side until golden and crisp, turning once. Add a splash of oil if the rashers begin to stick.

10. Pile the pancakes onto four warmed plates and top with the fried bacon. Drizzle with a little maple syrup (or golden syrup) and serve the rest separately.