Savory Pancakes with Bacon, Jalapeno and Maple Syrup

A stack of savory pancakes with butter and maple syrup

Savory Pancakes with Bacon, Jalapeno and Maple Syrup

Your weekend breakfast is about to get exciting! These savory pancakes are made with bacon and jalapeno and best served with lashing of maple syrup.

Course Breakfast, brunch

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 35

Total Time 40

Servings

Calories 516kcal

Author Slow The Cook Down

Ingredients

4 jalapenos
8 slices bacon (reserve the bacon grease after cooking)
1 ½ cups all purpose flour (6.7oz) (190g)
2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
pinch black pepper
1 ½ cups buttermilk (12oz) (350ml)
1 egg
2 tablespoons salted butter (melted)
Reserved butter grease, butter or oil for the pan

To serve

Instructions

Pre heat the oven to 430ºF / 220ºc and line a baking sheet with foil.
Place the bacon and jalapenos on the baking sheet and place in the oven for 20-25 minutes until the bacon is well cooked and crispy. Let cool slightly and crumble the bacon and deseed and chop the jalapenos and place to one side.
Mix the flour, baking soda, sugar, salt and pepper in one bowl until combined. To another bowl add the buttermilk, egg and melted butter to another bowl and mix well.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and use a whisk to combine. Whisk just until there is no dry mixture left, it will still be lumpy - you don't want a smooth batter.
Add the chopped bacon and jalapeno to the batter and gently fold it all together
Heat the reserved bacon grease in a frying pan on a medium high heat (you can also use butter or oil).
Once the pan is hot, ladle in some of the mixture to the middle of the pan. I used about half a ladle for each pancake.
After about 2-3 minutes, once the bottom of the pancake is bubbling, flip it over with a spatula. Cook for another 2 to 3 minutes until cooked and move to a plate. Repeat until the batter is all used up.
Serve immediately with a pat of butter and maple syrup.

Notes

This recipe is adapted from Just A Taste's Buttermilk Pancake recipe.

Don't over mix the pancake batter. Mix it until just incorporated, it shouldn't be smooth and should have lumps in it.
Remove all of the jalapeno seeds if you don't like it to spicy, keep some in if you do!
Let the frying pan get hot before adding the pancake mixture.
Flip the pancakes when the batter starts to bubble and you can easily get a spatula underneath them.
Serve the pancakes immediately.

Nutritional values are based on one of four servings and are n approximation.

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