How to make Chocolate Coconut Banana Pancakes
An alternative pancake recipe
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Your support makes all the difference.Fancy something different this Pancake Day? Here's an alternative recipe from The Groovy Food Company.
Chocolate Coconut Banana Pancakes
Preparation time – 20 mins, cooking time – 20 mins
Makes 6 pancakes
Ingredients
3 tbsp. coconut flour
1 large banana, mashed
4 large eggs, beaten
2 tsp. raw cacao powder or cocoa powder
1 tsp. vanilla bean paste or 1 vanilla pod, deseeded
2 tbsp. virgin coconut oil
Pinch of salt
Garnish
2 bananas, sliced
2 handfuls raw coconut chips, toasted
50g dark chocolate shavings
Method
Put all the ingredients except for the coconut oil into a bowl and blend together with a hand stick blender.
Melt the coconut oil on a gentle heat and put into a separate bowl.
Heat your pancake or frying pan over a medium heat and take a square of kitchen roll, dab it into the oil.
Once the oil is hot, take ¾ ladle of the pancake mixture and pour into the pancake pan.
Cook until golden brown on the underside (approx. 1 minute), then flip over and cook until golden brown on the other side (about 30 seconds).
Once you’ve cooked all 6 pancakes, stack them back on top of each other in a set of 3 to warm through in the hot pan and flip over to warm the other side.
Serve warm with a drizzle of agave nectar, sliced bananas, toasted coconut chips and chocolate shavings on top.
The Groovy Food Company’s Top Tip
After you have poured in the pancake mixture, shake the pan gently to ensure the mixture is evenly spread.
The article was originally written in 2017 and has now been updated.