Coconut Plantain Pancakes Recipe

These coconut plantain pancakes are gluten free, dairy free and refined sugar free. Better still this is a pretty easy pancake recipe. Challenge totally accepted and I spent the better part of 2 days testing out plantain recipes. I will be sharing these with you over the next few months but please, please please allow me to start with these gluten free, diary free and sugar free pancakes. The Sierra Leonean in me kinda wants to do a big song and dance about them but I am sure that is not necessary. Coconut plantain pancakes - heck yeah.

Just saying. OK, small song and dance. A few tips for you if you want to make these. These pancakes will break if you flip them like traditional pancake so do turn them over carefully. They will not bubble like traditional pancakes so you have to keep check them to see if they are done before turning them over. These pancakes are sweet from the plantain so do not be tempted to add in any sugar.

Well that is pancake day 2015, Valentine’s day breakfast and exotic breakfast generally sorted for the next few days. Sierra Leone flavours - is the spot on my blog where I share both traditional Sierra Leonean recipes and West African fusion recipes. Glutenfree - Sierra Leone Flavours! It is really, really awesome for me when you make one of my recipes and I'd love to see it.

You can also share it on my Facebook page. Please pin this recipe to Pinterest too! Thank you for reading Recipes from a Pantry. Put all the ingredients in a food processor and whiz until all mixed and no plantain lumps remain. Heat some vegetable oil in a frying pan on low heat and add about 2 tbsp of batter per pancake.

Cook the pancakes for about 3 mins. Then carefully turn the pancake over and cook for another 2-3 mins or until done. These pancakes will not bubble like traditional pancakes so you have to keep check them to see if they are done before turning them over. Keep them warm whist cooking the rest of the pancakes.

Serve the pancakes with some slightly sharp oranges and some blueberries and shredded coconut. These pancakes will break if you flip them like traditional pancake batter so do it carefully. These pancakes are sweet from the plantain so don't be tempted to add in any sugar. Fry them first and test them. If you still want sweetness then drizzle on some maple syrup.

The camp stove acts as a form of emergency cooking for power outages and can be brought along for tailgating. The coolers get used for camping (yes, even if you use an RV), to hold drinks for BBQ’s, for picnics, for grocery shopping in the summer. You get the idea. Since I didn’t need any of the basics (besides the tent, which I didn’t have!) I decided to concentrate on the cooking aspect of camping.

I have several skillets and bought myself a Lodge Dutch Camp Oven and Dutch Oven Lid Lifter last year-so I picked up the Lodge Double Sided Griddle, the leather gloves (good up to 400 degrees!) and a Lodge Cookbook. I also picked up four Camp Forks! Let’s start with the Ozark Trail 4 Person Instant Dome Tent.

The first awesome thing, You can’t lose the directions for setting up the tent because they are sewn into the bag that the tent is stored in. Following the directions was simple-when they say easy up, they weren’t kidding. Seriously. You pull the tent out of the bag and sort of lay it out. Then you flip the poles out from the center (they are sort of jointed) and telescope them open.

There is a button that locks them in place (and that you push in to reverse the process when you pack up). Then you just stake it down on the corners, pull the guide ropes out and stake them as well. I honestly set this up by myself in less then 5 minutes on a windy day in my backyard.