The weekends, for me, are awesome. And so are breaks from school because I get to really try new recipes without feeling rushed for time. On the week days in the morning I ALWAYS have an english muffin with an egg, so on the weekends I'm dying to change it up. This morning I woke up and thought to myself, "I really don't want cereal and I really don't want an egg and english muffin" so I flipped through my new favorite cook book and immediately knew what I was going to be making. I've been eyeing this recipe for about a month now and figured today was the perfect opportunity to try it out.
It's easy but it looks insanely hard, like you spent an hour in the kitchen and used about 20 ingredients. It was supposed to be a "banana-berry" compote, but I'm out of strawberries/blueberries/any kind of berry. So I used what I already had in my kitchen-apples. It was still really tasty. Here ya go:
Ingredients for pancake:
4 large eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup all-purpose flour
3 tbsp granulated sugar
1/3 tsp salt
2 tbsp butter or margarine
Ingredients for compote:
2 ripe bananas cut into 1/2 inch chunks
1 pint strawberries sliced (I used 1 gala apple...next time I'd use 2)
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
confectioners' sugar for dusting
Preheat oven to 425. Place 10 inch skillet with oven safe handle in oven; heat until very hot.
*I used our cast iron skillet (please don't say anything about my dirty cooktop...today is chores day and it will be sparkling by the end of the day...I get a little lazy after I cook when it comes to scouring my cooktop)
In a blender (I did this while the skillet was heating up in the oven), at medium speed, blend eggs, milk, flour, 2 tbsp granulated sugar, and salt until smooth.
While that was going, I had my HH (hot helper) cut up the apple for me and I put it in a small saucepan to soften the pieces a little.
Once the skillet was nice and hot, I took it out of the oven and added 2 tbsp of butter and swirled it around until it was all melted and coated the skillet.
Then I poured the batter into the skillet. Bake for 15 minutes or until fluffy and golden.
Meanwhile, I cut up the bananas (2 of them) and added in the sugar and lemon juice and let it sit in the warm saucepan until the pancake was done cooking.
Ta-da!!! Check that baby out! Nice and fluffy.
I topped it off with the banana and apple compote and sprinkled some confectioners' sugar on top.
It was a hit! My HH loved it and I'll definitely be making this again. He was impressed that this was all done in a matter of less than 30 minutes and didn't require a ton of ingredients. Next time I'll use more apples and probably try to have strawberries on hand, but other than that, I wouldn't change up this recipe it all. It's so flavorful that you don't need syrup and even the confectioners' sugar I feel that you should use a light hand with it. Too much of it and it would just make this pancake overly sweet.
Thanks for checking out M&M and I hope you enjoy this recipe. I know we did :)
Happy cooking!
This looks really yummy!
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