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Minnesota · Breakfast

Minnesota Wild Rice Pancakes

  • Easy
  • 40 min
  • roughly 2 of 4 for cost
  • Vegetarian

rich · sweet-edged Leads with richness that coats and comforts, a sweet edge rounding the corners.

Ingredients

  • 200g cooked wild rice
  • 250g flour
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 400ml buttermilk
  • 55g butter, melted
  • Maple syrup and butter

The skills inside

Griddle & plancha work

The words inside

Wild Rice

Allergen screen

Found: gluten · dairy · egg

Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.

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Method

  1. Whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
  2. Beat the eggs, buttermilk, and melted butter, then combine with the dry ingredients.
  3. Fold in the cooked wild rice.
  4. Griddle in butter over medium heat until bubbles break, then flip once.
  5. Serve stacked with butter and maple syrup.

How to tell it is going right

This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.

Griddle & plancha work 45 recipes

  • Full contact with the metal: the food lies flat, with no dome in the middle and no curled edge lifting it away, so browning reaches the entire face rather than a ring of it.
  • Contact is immediate and audible, and the food stays where it is put rather than sliding around in a slick of its own released liquid.
  • The cooked face is an unbroken sheet of even colour: the whole surface browned, not a pattern of marks with pale ground between them, and not a dark centre with pale corners.
  • The metal around the food is dry: no spreading wet patch steaming out from under it, nothing weeping onto the surface and boiling there.
  • Turned once or twice and no more, and lifted while the crust is still brown: a piece flipped repeatedly never holds heat long enough to build one.

Where it goes wrong The surface was crowded and its temperature crashed, so everything gave up its water at once and stewed on the metal: pale, damp, grey at the edges, and stuck fast where the crust never got the chance to form.

At the Table

The Pour
Mimosa (weekends only)
Also Right
Cava, straight
From the Taps
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Zero-Proof
Fresh orange juice & café au lait

Morning food wants brightness and bubbles, or honest coffee: nothing that argues before noon.

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