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Wholesome Banana-Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Keyword breakfast, pancakes

Ingredients

  • 1 Tbsp butter melted
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup unsweetened milk* * You can use whole/skim/buttermilk or your favorite dairy-free milks such as coconut/soy/almond milk. I've tried them all (except the almond milk due to the girls' nut allergies) and they've all turned out fabulously! I daresay that the coconut milk variation was one of my faves, but I don't typically have it on-hand.
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/2 tsp cooking oil
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour I used 1/2 cup whole wheat, 1/2 cup unbleached white flour
  • 1/2 Tbsp sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 Tbsp ground flax seed optional
  • 1 Tbsp wheat germ optional
  • 1 ripened banana mashed (from frozen works well, too. just thaw before using)
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips I used dark chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. I make this often enough that I get kinda lazy about it, so I try to dirty up as few bowls as possible. Here's how I combine the ingredients (which goes against the pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients notion):
  2. Pre-heat a lightly oiled skillet or griddle over medium-low/medium heat (I hover closer to medium-low on my gas range).
  3. In a two-cup pyrex measuring cup or larger, add the butter and microwave it until melted.
  4. Add banana to bowl and mash up.
  5. Whisk in each egg, noting the total liquid measurement on the cup thus far.
  6. Pour 1 cup of milk into the eggs and butter mixture and whisk in the vanilla and cooking oil.
  7. Whisk in the dry ingredients one-by-one until combined. Batter should still have some lumps.
  8. Mix in chocolate chips.
  9. Pour desired amount/shape of mix into pan, flipping when bubbles begin to form on the surface of the pancakes and the edges begin rise. Cook the other side of pancakes until golden brown.
  10. Keep the pancakes warm either on a plate under a towel or in the oven set to 200 degrees F.
  11. Serve w/ with your favorite toppings and enjoy!
  12. Makes about 12 medium sized pancakes.

Recipe Notes

adapted from: About.com's Basic Dairy-free Pancakes

* You can use whole/skim/buttermilk or your favorite dairy-free milks such as coconut/soy/almond milk. I've tried them all (except the almond milk due to the girls' nut allergies) and they've all turned out fabulously! I daresay that the coconut milk variation was one of my faves, but I don't typically have it on-hand.