Buttermilk pancakes with maple fruit salad

• Preparation time 20 minutes
• Cooking time 20 minutes
• Serves 4-6

Ingredients

• 2bananas sliced
• 1tablespoon lemon juice
• 250 gstrawberries, halved
• 2kiwi fruit, peeled, halved and sliced
• 185 ml (¾ cup)maple syrup
• 4 tablespoonslow-fat yoghurt, to serve (optional)

PANCAKES

• 1½ cupsself-raising flour
• 1 tablespooncaster (superfine) sugar
• 410 ml (1 2/3 cup)buttermilk
• 1egg, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoonvanilla essence
• light spray of canola or olive oil

Method

1. Toss bananas with lemon juice as soon as they are cut.
2. Add strawberries, kiwi fruit and maple syrup, and toss to gently combine.
3. Set aside.
4. To make pancakes, sift flour into a mixing bowl, stir in sugar and make a well in the centre.
5. Whisk buttermilk, egg and vanilla together with a fork and add to the dry ingredients.
6. Stir together until just combined (use a wire whisk or a fork)- the mixture will be slightly lumpy.
7. Don't over beat the mixture or the pancakes will be tough.
8. Spray a nonstick frying pan with oil and place over medium heat.
9. Put 1/3 cup batter into the pan, and cook for about 1½ minutes, until bubbles appear on the surface.
10. Turn over and cook a further 1 minute or until lightly golden underneath.
11. Serve the pancakes topped with fruit salad, and a dollop of yoghurt if desired.

HINT: If you want everyone to eat at once, keep the cooked pancakes warm by stacking them on a plate in an oven on very low heat while you continue cooking

Nutrition

Australian Institute of Sport - From the "Survival for the Fittest" cookbook05 Nov 2018HINT: If you want everyone to eat at once, keep the cooked pancakes warm by stacking them on a plate in an oven on very low heat while you continue cooking , Treats, survival-for-the-fittestTreats