These are the easiest pancakes to make – you don’t even need scales to weigh your ingredients. All you need is a cup or a mug. As long as you use the same cup for measuring both the flour and the milk, you’ll be laughing! If you use self-raising flour the pancakes will be more American in style, lovely and fluffy and thick. Plain flour will give you thinner ones, more like European crκpes. Great with a sprinkling of sugar and a squeeze of lemon juice (very old school!), or drizzled with maple syrup and served with crispy bacon. Try throwing a handful of blueberries into the batter mix if making American-style pancakes.

serves 4 to 6

Ingredients

• • 1 ripe banana
• • 150g natural yoghurt
• • 2 ripe mangoes
• • 1 lime
• • 1 large egg, preferably free-range or organic
• • 1 cup of self-raising flour (see above)
• • 1 cup of semi-skimmed milk (see above)
• • sea salt
• • a knob of butter

To make your flavoured yoghurt and prepare the fruit

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• Peel the bananas, put them into a large bowl
• Mash them with a fork
• Add the yoghurt and mix well. then put to one side until needed

To make your flavoured yoghurt and prepare the fruit

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• Slice the mango cheeks away from their stones
• Score the flesh across and push it outwards so that you can slice it off the skin to give you diced mango (for step-by-step pictures see How to prepare a mango)
• Cut the lime into wedges

To make your pancake batter

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• Crack the egg into a large mixing bowl
• Add the flour, milk and a pinch of sea salt
• Whisk everything together until you’ve got a lovely, smooth batter

To cook your pancakes

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• Put a large frying pan on a medium heat and add half the butter
• When the butter has melted and the pan is nice and hot, use a small ladle to spoon the batter into the pan
• Each ladleful will make 1 pancake – they’re quite small, so you can cook several at a time

To cook your pancakes

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• Cook for 1 to 2 minutes and use a spatula to turn them over when they start to brown on the bottom and get little bubbles on the top
• When cooked on both sides, transfer them to a plate, carefully wipe the pan clean with kitchen paper, add the rest of the butter and start again
• Keep going until all the batter is used up

To serve your pancakes

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• Serve straight away, topped with a dollop of flavoured yoghurt, the diced fresh mango, and wedges of lime for squeezing over