Do you want to please household members with something, but don’t have many products available? Then cook the rice patties. This dish is especially good in the after-holidays. Indeed, in many houses they cook pilaf. And it is an excellent basis for making rice cutlets. You can also use leftover rice porridge.
For this dish you will need a minimum of products. We prepare three hundred grams of boiled rice, pilaf or porridge, one hundred grams of cheese, fresh herbs, three eggs and breadcrumbs. Rub cheese and mix with rice. Finely chop the greens. Add eggs, greens to the rice mixture and form small cutlets. Pour breadcrumbs into a flat bowl and roll each patty on all sides. Ready-cooked semi-finished foods are fried in hot oil. Rice cutlets are rosy and disperse very quickly.
Having conceived rice cutlets, the recipe can be slightly redone, taking into account the available products. If there is no hard cheese available , then it can be replaced with processed cheese. In this case, the taste will be much milder. And lovers of fried onions and carrots can safely add them to the recipe. Rice cutlets become a beautiful orange color inside.
If necessary, make a snack for vodka, rice sticks will help. To prepare them, you will need the remains of the salad “Cheese with garlic”, boiled rice or pilaf leftovers, three eggs and breadcrumbs. If when mixing all the ingredients a liquid mass is obtained, then add a few tablespoons of flour. We form sticks from it, bread in breadcrumbs and deep-fry. Spicy lovers can add a little red pepper or paprika. The appetizer turns out to be very satisfying, which is just right for spirits.
Kids like it most when they add corn or green peas to their rice patties. They look very interesting there and are an excellent vegetable addition to rice.
An alternative to cutlets can be rice zrazy, which are prepared with a variety of fillings. This dish will be a great addition to the lean menu. Making zrazy is very simple.
Consider cooking with mushroom filling. For this dish you will need three hundred grams of boiled rice, three tablespoons of starch (instead of eggs), a small onion, one hundred grams of mushrooms. Boil rice, cool and mix with starch. Peel the onion and chop finely. Mushrooms take fresh, canned, frozen or pickled. If necessary, boil and cut into small pieces. Fry onions and mushrooms in vegetable oil. We make a cake from the rice mixture. In the middle we put the mushroom stuffing and close the edges. Can be cracked. Finished semi-finished products in a frying pan to a golden color. Serve to the table with ketchup, lean mayonnaise or prepare mushroom sauce.
No less tasty zrazy are obtained with a filling of cheese and ham or boiled eggs and green onions. You can put fried onions and carrots in the middle. Such zrazy with a filling from the remains of various salads, which are in abundance after the holidays, look unusual. A Korean carrot inside will delight men.
And sweet tooth will like zrazy stuffed with dried apricots, raisins, prunes or apples. Dried fruits are pre-steamed in boiling water and chopped. Turn the apples into thin straws and sprinkle with sugar. Sugar, vanillin and cinnamon should be added to the rice mass.
If you do not want to mess with cutlets and zrazy, then prepare a rice casserole. It can also be made with or without filling. To get a golden crust, just sprinkle grated cheese on top, and then bake in the oven.
A casserole cooked according to this recipe is perfect for baby food, like a dish on a diet or on a fasting day.