Mrs Green's strawberry and banana pancakes recipe

Are you managing to avoid food waste, despite soaring temperatures?

It hasn’t been below 27 degrees for about 10 days now, and I don’t know about you, but I’ve been noticing just how much quicker fresh foods are going off.

Bananas that would once last a week are brown after three days.

Fortunately I created a cunning recipe that uses up an old banana and you can decorate with any fruit you have lying around.

As I had moudly strawberries heading off to the compost bin last week, I didn’t want to have history repeat itself, so I used strawberries on mine.

Here goes with

Mrs Green’s strawberry and banana pancakes recipe

Ingredients

• 1 very brown, soft banana
• 2 eggs
• Topping of your choice – I used:
• couple of tablespoons of cream, whipped
• few strawberries, sliced
• A handful of oats, toasted in a little butter
• Some chocolate sauce

Method

• Beat together the mushy banana and eggs until thoroughly combined
• Heat a frying pan and add a dash of bland oil such as sunflower to coat the pan
• Drop a couple of tablespoons of the pancake mix into the frying pan and cook on one side
• Flip and cook the other side (these take longer than regular pancakes)
• Slip onto a plate and assemble the toppings.
• I did a layer of whipped cream, some sliced strawberries, topped with toasted oats and a squirt of chocolate sauce

This mix made 4 small to medium sized pancakes