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Wild Rice Flour Crusted Sunfish

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Wild Rice Flour Crusted SunfishI love keeping a little bit of wild rice flour around for projects here and there. There’s a lot of gluten-free flours out there, but none that I’ve come across that pack quite the flavor punch of wild rice flour, amaranth flour coming in a close second. I don’t use wild rice flour specifically because it’s gluten free in this recipe, but in some cases I do, and, you can never go wrong in this day in age with having a couple options on the menu that GF clientele can have.

You can’t bake with wild rice flour straight-up at a 1:1 ratio of flour, but for other applications where you don’t necessarily need glutinous properties, wild rice flour can be a great addition to your repertoire. If you’re from the Midwest too, you can take pride that you know how to do something with wild rice that the Jone’s down the street haven’t even heard of.

Wild Rice Flour Crusted Sunfish
Wild rice flour is expensive, but It doesnt take a lot of flour to crust a few pieces of fish.
Wild Rice Flour
Wild Rice Flour

One of the easiest things to do with wild rice flour is to crust something in it. I don’t often crust things in flour, but sometimes you have to, for example: poultry that has been breasted-out, or arrived without skin will always need a dredging of some kind to remain tender. Braises with interesting lean meat (turtle, rabbit, squirrel) benefit from the flavor and insulation wild rice flour brings. Hands-down, my favorite thing to dredge in wild rice flour though, is pan fish, wee, succulent little pan fish. In the pictures here, I’m illustrating using sunfish, but crappies or another small pan fish would be great too, it’s just a basic method for you to adapt to whatevers on hand.

Wild Rice Flour Crusted Sunfish

Wild Rice Flour Crusted Sunfish
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Wild Rice Crusted Sunfish

These are great cold or room temperature too, as can happen after you catch a bunch of fish.
Prep Time5 mins
Cook Time10 mins
Course: Appetizer, Main Course, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Panfish, Sunfish, Wild Rice Flour

Equipment

  • Saute or cast iron pan

Ingredients

  • Cleaned sunfish or other panfish filets
  • wild rice flour as needed for dredging
  • Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper
  • Cooking oil as needed for sauteeing
  • Crushed clove of garlic and/or a few sprigs of fresh thyme optional

Instructions

  • Dry the sunfish. Season the sunfish with salt and pepper lightly, then allow to rest for 5 minutes. Toss the sunfish in a bowl or a plastic bag with wild rice flour to coat, then fry in oil until just done, adding the thyme and garlic if using, and being careful not to burn the wild rice flour.
  • Remove the sunfish to a paper towel to drain for a minute, then serve and eat.

Notes

Other white fleshed fresh water fish can be used here, especially white fish, cisco, and other pan fish, like crappie

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