Black rice pancakes with smoked salmon
Crespelle di farina di riso con salmon
These black rice pancakes with smoked salmon were inspired by an Italian blog called Con le mani in pasta. I wanted to try out alternative uses of black rice flour, and pancakes seemed like an obvious choice. They were a bit harder to cook than ordinary pancake batter, as the flour did not soak up the liquid the way I expected, and it looked like a mistake when poured out on the frying pan. But with a little patience and goodwill the batter became pancakes, and they taste incredibly good with smoked salmon. Especially because of the texture and the slight crunch inherent in the rice flour.
Ingredients
150 g black rice flour
3 eggs
50 ml milk
Olive oil
200 g smoked salmon
Fresh hives and chervil
200 g green beans
Preparation
Mix rice flour, milk and eggs to a light batter.
Let it rest for at least 30 minutes.
Heat up the olive oil in a frying pan and make 4 pancakes. Please note that rice flour does not behave like wheat flour, so you can’t spread the batter. And don’t try to turn the pancake around until it is all set.
Let the pancakes cool off.
Boil the green beans in lightly salted water for 10 minutes.
Blend the beans to a smooth sauce
Chop chervil and chives leaving a couple of long chives for trying up the pancakes.
Cut the pancakes in half.
Place a slice of smoked salmon on each halved pancake, sprinkle with herbs and roll the pancakes to small towers that can be tied with a chive straw.
Serve the black rice pancakes with smoked salmon with a sauce of blended green beans.
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beautiful