Single Guy’s Kitchen

Moby, yes the musician, is also an amateur cook. While in NYC Sandy and I visited TeaNY, his cafe on the lower east side of Manhattan and quite enjoyed it. Moby is vegan and TeaNY is vegetarian/vegan friendly. Sandy is vegetarian so this was a natural choice for us.

Since there’s no TeaNY in Augusta, Georgia (or any vegetarian fare to speak of) that leaves cooking as our only option when she’s over for supper or breakfast for that matter. Could Moby come to the rescue for a good vegan breakfast? We decided to sample his quick banana pancakes.

The recipe is exceedingly simple. Here’s the ingredient list:

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

soy milk (the amount varies, I used about 3/4 cup)

2 bananas

Mix the flour and baking powder and gradually start adding soy milk. The goal is slightly runny batter that looks like, well, pancake batter. I wasn’t keeping track of how much I added but I would guess about 3/4 cup. I added a little, mixed, checked, and added more if need be. Just keep this up until the batter is the right consistency.

Heat your griddle, skillet, or whatever you’ll be cooking on and spray it down with cooking spray. While that’s heating slice up your bananas into thin pieces like you were making a banana sandwich. Scoop your batter onto the pan (3-4 tablespoons per pancake) and place the slices on top. From here on out just cook them like any other pancakes.

They were incredibly simple to make. If your pan is too hot the bananas will burn when you flip the pancake so keep an eye on the heat. The flavor was a little raw as you can probably imagine based on the ingredients. These have a strong wheat flavor and they are rather dense too. They are somewhat bland by themselves but with a little bit of maple syrup they are quite tasty. There’s no denying the health factor either. These pancakes are genuinely good for you. They were actually very filling too.

Would I want to eat these every morning? Probably not. Would I be willing to make them again? I think so. I’d like to try them with other fruit too. The bananas worked well but blueberries or strawberries would work too. Maybe even carob chips for a little sweeter pancake while remaining vegan, who knows. This is a pretty versatile recipe.