Eggless Banana Coconut Sweet Rainbow Pancake with Dry Fruits

Again it was a Friday or ‘Fry-Day’ for me and as always I was looking for a fresh fried recipe for my family. The saddest part was my pantry was almost empty just like my head (LOL) and I was unable to go outside due to my sickness. So I had no option left other than surfing net for some new recipe with simple ingredients..

After wasting quite a lot of time I got the idea of preparing eggless pancakes. Few weeks back I already had savory pancake and I have not prepared any sweet dishes after Diwali so quickly I opted for the sweet pancake as dessert. Though I had no plan about dinner, I was done with the choice of dessert 😛

This egg less banana coconut pancake is a thin flat bread cooked on a pan with smashed banana and coconut flakes in it. This is a classic dessert for the fried dessert lovers. I used five different dry fruits and flavors to make these pancakes unique and sinful. Pancakes of each flavor had a unique color ranging from pink, orange, yellow, green and brown.. So I like to lovingly call them as rainbow pancakes.

So today my pick is recipe of Eggless Banana Coconut Sweet pancake with different dry fruits and flavors.

Ingredients:

Fully ripe banana: 3

Milk: 1 cup

All-purpose flour: 1 ½ cups

Baking powder: 1 tsp

Semolina: ½ cup

Granulated sugar: 1/3 cup

Salt: 1 pinch

Coconut flakes: ¼ cup

Saffron: few threads soaked in warm milk

Coco powder: 1-2 tsp

Almond slivers: 4 tsp

Pistachio slivers: 4 tsp

Raisin: 4 tsp

Chopped cashew nuts: 4 tsp

Food colors: few drops of green, yellow, pink, orange colors

Rose essence: 1 drop

Pistachio essence: 1 drop

Orange essence: 1 drop

Oil to fry

Preparation:

Sieve and shift flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.

Smash the bananas in a separate larger bowl.

Add flour and baking powder mixture into the smashed banana little by little at a time to avoid lumps.

Mix very well so that no lumps are formed. If any lumps get formed smash it and mix well.

Add semolina and keep mixing.

Add granulated sugar and keep beating.

Once sugar starts to dissolve add milk little by little from one hand and keep mixing with oither hand.

Make a smooth lump free thick batter. The consistency of the batter should be neither tight nor runny. It should be able to coat the back of a spoon.

Divide the batter into five equal portions. Keep in separate five bowls.

Pour coconut flakes in a portion.

Mix saffron soaked milk in that potion and mix well.

Take another portion and mix rose essence, pink color and almond slivers with it.

Take third portion and mix orange color, essence and raisin in it.

Mix pistachio color, essence and chopped cashew nuts with the forth portion of the batter.

Mix coco powder to the fifth and final portion of the batter.

Heat oil in a large non-stick pan. take a spoonful of the each flavored batter and pour in the hot oil.

Fry each pancake on both sides till they are done.

Be careful not to burn the pancakes.

Make sure each cake is perfectly cooked.

Add oil at the edges of the pancakes if necessary.

Eggless banana coconut pancakes are done.

Serve warm on breakfast with maple syrup.

These pancakes can be a delightful dessert too. Make sugar syrup with 1:1 water and sugar and keep boiling until it reaches one string consistency. Soak the pancakes in the hot sugar syrup and serve immediately.