Rice Cutlet Recipes

 

Rice Cutlet

These are crisp and delicious rice cutlets made from leftover cooked rice, mashed potatoes, herbs and spices.

Prep Time     :  15 mins

Cook Time    :  10 mins

Total Time     :  25 mins

Cuisine          :  North Indian 

Servings        : 10 to 12 cutlets

Ingredients

1 cup tightly packed cooked rice

½ cup tightly packed mashed potatoes or 1 medium to large potato - boiled, peeled and mashed

1 medium onion finely chopped or ⅓ cup chopped onion

1 green chili chopped

2 tablespoons coriander leaves

1 pinch turmeric powder (ground turmeric)

¼ teaspoon red chili powder (or cayenne pepper or paprika)

½ teaspoon cumin powder (ground cumin)

½ teaspoon coriander powder (ground coriander)

¼ to ½ teaspoon Garam Masala Powder

3 tablespoon besan (gram flour)

salt as required

3 tablespoons oil for shallow frying

Instructions

making rice cutlet mixture

Take all the ingredients in a mixing bowl, except oil.

Mix very well. Check the taste and add more spice powders or salt if required.

Mix everything very well. When you are mixing, the rice will also get mashed.

Shape the mixture into small to medium sized patties or tikkis.

frying rice cutlet

Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a frying pan or tawa (skillet). Keep the heat to medium low to medium hot.

When the oil becomes medium hot, place the rice cutlets on the tawa.

When the base is lightly browned, flip them using a spatula and fry the other side.

Flip again and fry till they are crisp and golden. You will have to flip them a couple of times for even cooking.

When nicely crisp and golden, remove them and place them on a kitchen paper towel so that any extra oil is absorbed if any.

Serve rice cutlets hot with coriander chutney or mint chutney or tomato ketchup.

Notes

Spices and green chilies can be adjusted as per your taste.

You can even pan fry the cutlets with less oil. You can use any neutral-flavored oil.

Instead of besan, you can also use roasted gram flour (sattu) or cornstarch or rice flour.

The recipe can be doubled or tripled.

If you want to include some veggies in these cutlets then you can consider adding ¼ cup of grated veggies like carrots or beetroot. Some boiled peas can also be added.