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Panikeke

Name: Panikeke
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Samoa
Ingredients: 250g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 60g Sugar; 1 Egg; 150ml Milk; 1 (very ripe) Bananas; A pinch Vanilla Extract; A pinch Salt; To taste Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Sweet batter dropped by spoonfuls and fried into fluffy balls — Samoan pancake balls.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Panikeke is the Samoan word for 'pancake,' a fried sweet made by dropping spoonfuls of sweet batter into oil. Crisp outside and fluffy inside, they're sold for breakfast, after-school snacks, and at church events. Panikeke fa'i, made with ripe banana, is also popular.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a small village shop in Samoa, freshly fried round panikeke are packed into paper bags early in the morning as children buy them on the way to school.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 250g
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Sugar 60g
Egg 1
Milk 150ml
Bananas 1 (very ripe)
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Salt A pinch
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Combine the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a bowl.
Add the egg, milk, mashed banana, and vanilla to make a thick batter.
Scoop rounds of batter with two spoons and drop into 170°C oil.
Fry 4–5 minutes, turning, until golden.
Drain and eat warm.

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