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Wild Rice Pancake

This is apt to be a messy-looking pancake. But who cares? It’s just for you, and it’s delicious. I particularly like it with a slice or two of smoked salmon and a dollop of sour cream, or of the creamy top of good whole-milk yogurt. But the pancake goes with so many things.

Ingredients

2/3–3/4 cup cooked wild rice
3 scallions, finely chopped
Salt and freshly ground pepper
2 teaspoons instant-blending flour
1 egg
Vegetable oil

Preparation

  1. Toss the rice with the scallions and season with salt and pepper to taste. Beat the flour into the egg, and pour it into the wild rice. Mix well. Film the bottom of a large skillet with oil, heat it, and when it is hot, scoop up half the wild-rice batter and plop it into the pan. Quickly flatten the cake out with a spatula. Do the same with the remaining batter. There will be lots of spluttering and popping, so beware. When one side has crisped, turn each cake over with a spatula as best you can, and brown the other side.

The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones. Copyright © 2009 by Judith Jones. Published by Knopf. All Rights Reserved. Judith Jones is senior editor and vice president at Alfred A. Knopf. She is the author of The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food and the coauthor with Evan Jones (her late husband) of three books: The Book of Bread; Knead It, Punch It, Bake It!; and The Book of New New England Cookery. She also collaborated with Angus Cameron on The L. L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook, and has contributed to Vogue, Saveur, and Gourmet magazines. In 2006, she was awarded the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in New York City and Vermont.
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