Chocolate pancakes with Strawberry and Banana Sauce

My younger one is in love with pancakes, so the moment I saw the picture on IFF, I knew I would be making Bhavana Bhakhri's Chocolate pancakes with Strawberry and Banana Sauce  sooner rather than later. Made them today, and the kid lapped them up faster than my pan could supply.

Maida.....1 cup (sieved)
Baking Powder.....1tsp
Drinking chocolate powder - 2 tbsp (the original recipe called for chocolate, but I replaced it)
Eggs.....2
Milk....1cup
Butter.....2-3 tbsp
Strawberry preserve- 4 tbsp
Banana ....1 mashed

Method

Sieve the maida, baking powder and chocolate powder a few times till well incorporated
Whisk the eggs with milk till froathy
Add the dry ingredients to the eggs, and mix well, till well blended.
In a pan add 1 tbsp of butter and add mashed banana and saute for few minutes. Add the strawberry preserve and cook till you get the desired consistency.
Heat a nonstick tawa, add 1 tbsp of butter. Pour a ladle full of batter and spread it around the pan. Cook on medium heat till the underside is done and then flip and cook from other side till done.
Take it out on a plate and pour the sauce over it and enjoy the delicious pancake.

Eggless Pancakes, rustled up in a jiffy

When I saw this recipe posted by Rekha Hegde, I knew I had to make it for the kids 'someday'. Every couple of days, I would tell myself that I will make it 'soon', but I could always find excuses not to attempt it. 'Someday' finally came today, when both the kids were home (study leave, if you can believe that), and I was able to send the older one off to get bananas, instead of using that as an excuse not to make the pancakes.

Drizzled with honey, it tasted much better than I thought it would, but I could just not manage the perfect chocolate circle that I was to get. Next time, I do it with just the plain batter!

1 cup chopped banana
1/3 cup water
2/3 cup milk
1/3 cup thick curd (slightly sour)
2 tsp ghee or butter
2 tbsp sugar

1 cup maida (can replace 1/2 cup with wheat, I didn't)
2 tsp baking pd
vanilla essence
2 tsp cocoa

Blend banana, water, milk, thick curd, ghee or butter and sugar with a hand held blender.Sieve maida and baking baking pd, add to the blended banana mix and mix well.
For chocolate batter add cocoa to half the batter.
Pour 1 ladle of white batter on hot tava, do not spread with the ladle. Pour another ladle of chocolate batter in the centre. Cover and cook.
When completely cooked, put little ghee and flip them to other side and cook for few secs.