Cameroon Bananaroon - Cameroonian Crepes Are Next In Our Travels

On our journey to discover Cameroonian pancakes, we found many recipes for akara.  For those of you who may not have read some of our other African pancake recipe, akara is a black eyed pea type of pancake.  In Cameroon they aren't flat like in the other African countries we've visited.  Instead they are shaped like balls and look more like fritters.  So we opted not to make Cameroonian akara on this particular journey.  We did run across a recipe for African crepes from Cameroon in our search, so we decided to go ahead and give it a try.  For Cameroonian crepes, you will need the following:

  • 140 grams of flour
  • 50 grams of sugar
  • pinch of salt
  • 360 milliliters of milk
  • 4 large, ripe bananas mashed
  • oil for frying
  • powdered sugar for dusting
The first thing we did was mash the bananas.  Our bananas were quite ripe with lots of brown spots on the outside, so we were able to mash them quite easily.  We started out using a fork to mash them, but switched to a potato masher.


Next whisk the dry ingredients in a bowl, and then whisk in the milk until you have a smooth batter.  Once you have a smooth batter, whisk in the mashed bananas.


Once the bananas have been incorporated into the batter (it will be lumpy with bananas), you are ready to begin frying your pancakes.  Heat some oil in a crepe pan.  Once the oil is heated, ladle batter into the crepe pan and swirl as usual for a crepe.


Fry until golden brown around the edges, and then flip.  It takes about 2 minutes for it to brown.



Cook for about 2 more minutes, and then remove from heat.  Continue cooking in the same manner until all of the batter is used up.  Once you've cooked all of your crepes, sprinkle with sugar and eat.


I wasn't overly fond of these.  For me they just had too much banana in them.  If I made these again for just myself, I would probably only use 2 bananas instead of 4.  However, Sam loved them with all of the bananas in it!
140g flour 50g sugar 2 tbsp sugar pinch of salt 360ml milk 4 large, ripe, bananas, mashed groundnut oil for frying icing sugar to dust

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