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Wheat-free Banana Nut Pancakes

A wheat-free pancake made with rice flour, bananas, walnuts, and egg yolks, topped with honey.

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Why it works: Honey and banana work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 395 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Wheat-free Banana Nut Pancakes

Makes 16, 4-inch pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Combine flour, baking powder, salt and xanthan gum in medium bowl.

  2. Stir in water, oil, honey, egg yolks, banana and nuts.

  3. Beat egg whites in medium bowl until stiff peaks form. Fold egg whites into batter.

Cook

  1. Pour batter onto hot oiled griddle or skillet; cook on both sides until golden brown.

  2. Makes 16, 4-inch pancakes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1053Calories
26 gProtein
23 gFat
185 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Honey + bananatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Rice + walnuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Banana + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Flour + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Rice + bananatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together228 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Rice flour
Provides the structure for the batter, since it has no gluten to build one.
Egg whites
Beaten to stiff peaks, they lighten the batter and help the pancakes rise.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help bind the batter together.
Bananas
Add moisture, sweetness and flavour, and help keep the pancakes tender.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter to make the pancakes rise.
Xanthan gum
Acts as a binder, giving gluten-free batter stretch and body.

The step that matters

Fold the egg whites into the batter. Folding gently keeps the air trapped in the whipped whites. Stirring hard knocks that air out, so the pancakes come out flatter and denser.

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, flour, honey, egg, walnut):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Bananathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, flour, honey, egg, walnut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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