We usually have oatmeal porridge here for breakfast, but today I had to be a little bit creative since somehow, we seemed to lack just about everything (no drinking water, no teeth-brushing water, no Internet for the first morning hours, and of course, not enough oatmeal to have porridge for two). A lonely banana had been lying in the fridge forever and I hoped I could somehow combine it with the oatmeal and…this is how today’s breakfast came about. Pancakes instead of porridge – not bad at all. Now, I don’t have any measuring cups here in China, so can only give the estimates of the quantities that I used. But I guess pancakes are all about experimenting anyway.
- 3/4 cup oatmeal
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1.5 cup lukewarm milk
- 1 egg
- 3 tbs sugar
- 1 ripe banana
- pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp oil
# Mix oatmeal, salt and flour with lukewarm milk and leave at room temperature for 15-20 min.
# In the mean time, mash the banana and in a separate bowl, whisk the egg with sugar.
# Stir all the components together, also add oil. And then…fry some pancakes! I managed to get around two dozens of small cakes out of these quantities, more than enough to have breakfast for two and still have leftovers to enjoy after dinner. Yum!
Those moist pancakes are definitely mouthwatering treats, even without any jam or cream or the like. I tried squeezing our last drops of honey for the ‘kodak moment’ but did not quite get the look I was aiming for… Oh well. Worth a try anyway.
