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Chocolate pancakes with coconut and bananas

These chocolate pancakes with banana and coconut are a lower-sugar breakfast treat

  • Hands-on time: 15 mins
  • Time to make: 40 mins
  • Serving: 6 people (makes 18)
Ratings: 4.7
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 cup self-raising flour
  • 1/2 cup porridge oats
  • 2 tablespoons raw or unsweetened cocoa powder, plus extra to dust
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoons Natvia sweetener
  • ⅔ cup skim/skim milk
  • 300g natural yoghurt, plus 150g to serve
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten
  • spray oil
  • For the coconut bananas
  • 6 small bananas
  • 2 tablespoons desiccated coconut
  • 2 tablespoons ground LSA
  • juice 1 lemon
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Put the flour, oats, 2 tablespoons cocoa, cinnamon and sweetener in a bowl and stir to combine. Mix together the milk, yoghurt and egg, then fold into the oat mixture. Leave to stand for 10–15 min.

    2 Heat the oven to its lowest or warming setting and line a baking tray with non-stick baking paper. Spray a large non-stick, heavy-based frying pan with oil and put it over a low-medium heat. Work in batches of 3 or 4 to make 18 pancakes. For each pancake, spoon 2 tablespoons batter into the pan, spread the batter out a little and cook for 2–3 min until bubbles start to appear on the surface. Turn and cook on the other side for 2 min or until puffed and cooked through. Reduce the heat to low if the pancakes brown too quickly.

    3 Transfer the hotcakes to the prepared baking tray, cover loosely with foil and keep warm in the oven while you cook the remaining pancakes.

    4 Just before serving, make the coconut bananas. Slice the bananas into thick rounds. Combine the desiccated coconut and LSA in a bowl. Brush the slices of banana with lemon juice, then press them into the coconut mixture.

    Serving suggestion

    To serve, pile 3 hotcakes on each plate, top with the coconut bananas, dust with cocoa and serve with the 150g yoghurt.

    HFG tip

    Make ahead: Make the pancakes to the end of step 2, then cool, wrap and freeze. Defrost, then reheat the pancakes and make the coconut bananas to serve.

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