Brown-Butter Banana Pancakes

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1 ripe banana, mashed
• 1 egg
• ¾ cup milk or buttermilk
• 3 tbsp butter
• Pinch of salt
• Maple syrup, to serve

Method

1. Brown 2 tablespoons of the butter in a small pan until it smells like toasted hazelnuts; let it cool slightly.
2. Whisk the dry ingredients. In another bowl, whisk banana, egg, milk, and the brown butter. Fold wet into dry until *just* combined — lumps are friends, gluten is not.
3. Heat a nonstick pan over medium with a little butter. Ladle ¼-cup pancakes and cook until bubbles pop and stay open, about 2 minutes; flip and give them 1–2 more.
4. Stack, syrup, no regrets.