Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich

This is truly one of my favorite breakfast recipes, it's gloriously simple and fantastically cheap, and it takes mere minutes to make. This dish was a favorite of Elvis Presley's, who would eat these sandwiches as a midnight snack, cooked by his mother in bacon fat, my version is a rather more svelte.

There are many variations on this sandwich, some of which include bacon, some butter the bread first, and some even include honey. This version is as simple as it can possibly be, using only three ingredients, and not even using any cooking fat, just a griddle to create picturesque smoky lines.

Take two slices of industrial packaged bread, I find white works best, and spread them both with peanut butter. The kind of peanut butter you choose depends on your preference, but I prefer the unsweetened crunchy kind. You can use smooth if you prefer, but whichever you choose it mustn't be too runny, otherwise the peanut butter will drip out when you try to cook it.

Peel a banana and mash it on a board, and then add it to one of the slices of bread, on top of the peanut butter, place the other slice of bread on top, peanut butter side down. Place the sandwich on a hot griddle, and leave it until the bread is crunchy on the outside, and flip it, cooking until the sandwich is warm through and cooked on the other side.

ingredients

2 slices white bread
crunchy peanut butter
1 banana