Rice porridge in itself can be a full-fledged dish, but it is so boring! Much more interesting and tastier than a meatball from it.
The dish is tasty and unusual, has a lot of options and recipes, the best of them are collected here.
Rice chopsticks - general cooking principles
Usually, rice porridge is prepared for chopsticks, but not very thick and not liquid. Cheap rice varieties are best suited for it, you can even chop it. Prepare porridge for vodka or its mixture with milk, be sure to salt the base. Sugar is added to sweet varieties. You can use the recipe or to your taste.
What else do they put in bits:
• egg;
• dried fruits, candied fruits;
• meat products;
• mushrooms and vegetables;
• cottage cheese, cheese.
The method of laying additives depends on their type, some products require preliminary heat treatment, for example, mushrooms. Other ingredients are put raw.
Sculpted with hands. So that the rice does not stick and the surface is easily smoothed, you can moisten the palms in cold water. Usually bitochkam shape washers. To do this, first roll the ball in his hands, then flatten. Almost always the dish is breaded in flour or in breadcrumbs. Next, make roasting in a pan.
Simple rice bits
This dish can be served independently with different sauces or instead of baking for tea. The taste of bits will depend directly on the spices, you can safely experiment.
Ingredients
• 1.5 Art. rice;
• salt and other spices;
• egg;
• 4 glasses of water;
• breadcrumbs;
• oil for frying.
Cooking
1. We wash rice several times, we fall asleep in boiling, necessarily salted water, we prepare viscous porridge. Once it reaches the desired consistency, you need to remove from heat, cool, but not quite. The mass should not become thick and cold.
2. Add one raw egg to porridge, add spices to your taste: paprika, turmeric, black pepper, you can add fresh or dried garlic. Thoroughly knead. 3. We make small bits from the minced meat. Size approximately 70-80 grams. Hands periodically moisten with water so that the rice does not stick and it turned out to smooth the balls.
4. flatten out. Breadcrumbs. Shift while on the board. It is advisable to blind all the products at once, since they are roasted quickly.
5. Heat the vegetable oil in the pan, fry the formed rice products on both sides until golden brown. Steaming under the lid is not necessary.
6. Serve chops with sour cream, ketchup, soft cheese or garlic sauce. In addition, you can submit fresh, canned vegetables, greens.
Rice chops with boiled meat
For the preparation of such rice bits you can take any meat or poultry. For example, residues after boiling broth. The weight of the finished product is specified without stones.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of rice;
• 200 g of meat;
• 1 onion;
• 1 large egg;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• crackers or flour for breading;
• oil, seasonings.
Cooking
1. Cook porridge. This amount of rice will require 550 ml of water. If you need more, you can add boiling water. We will wash porridge
2. Cut one large onion into small cubes. We spread on the pan with one spoonful of butter and pass until cooked over medium heat, do not need much browning. You should also add no more oils, so that the bits won't get fat.
3. Cut the meat into small cubes. We shift it to a browned onion, stir it and shift it all together into boiled, still warm porridge, pour the flour. Stir.
4. Add spices to taste, add an egg and knead. We leave for a while, so that the porridge is still cold and the mass becomes thicker.
5. Now we make small bits in the shape of a washer, roll in breadcrumbs. Or use for breading the usual flour.
6. It remains only to fry bits in butter. We proceed as in the past recipe. Cook for two minutes on each side until a ruddy crust appears.
7. Serve meat balls to fresh or stewed vegetables, can be used as a separate dish.
Sweet rice bits with raisins
Option stunning dessert, which can be prepared not only with raisins, but also with other dried fruits. Porridge is cooked in milk, but you can use just water.
Ingredients
• 300 grams of rice;
• 250 ml of water;
• 2 glasses of milk;
• 80 g raisins;
• 1 egg;
• 60 g of sugar;
• 1 bag of vanilla;
• some flour for breading;
• butter and vegetable for frying;
• powdered sugar for serving.
Cooking
1. Connect the water with milk, put on the stove.
2. Wash the rice in several stages, add to the boiling liquid, add salt and boil the porridge. At the end add sugar to dissolve, remove from heat.
3. Enumerate the raisins, if necessary, soak in water. But if it is soft, rinse well enough. Add to rice.
4. Cool porridge, but not much. Shake the egg with a fork, add. For flavor put vanilla or vanilla sugar.
5. We collect a spoonful of porridge with a hill, put it on a moistened hand, form a ball first, then flatten it, roll it in flour, but not much and only from two main sides.
6. Put some butter in the pan and pour in the same amount of vegetable fat. To warm.
7. We spread the formed bits, fry until golden brown and transfer them to the dish.
8. Give cool, sprinkle with powder, serve with tea, coffee, additionally offer sour cream, jam, condensed milk or any sweet cream.
Rice “Orange” cones with candied
Another variation of sweet rice bits, which are distinguished not only by the addition of candied fruits, but also by simply amazing aroma. Orange is not needed, you will need only its peel. Similarly, you can take a lemon, too, get tasty.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of rice;
• 600 ml of water;
• salt, sugar;
• 60 g candied fruit;
• 1 orange;
• 1 egg;
• flour and butter.
Cooking
1. Cooking on a stove viscous porridge in the usual way. After cooking, add sugar to taste, but remember that candied fruits are very sweet. For this amount of porridge enough 2-3 spoons of sugar.
2. Cool porridge, add egg, stir.
3. We wash well citrus, we take a grater or a vegetable knife, we remove a dried peel from all orange. Grind, add to porridge. 4. Take a spoonful of mass, flatten on the palm of your hand, put candied fruit inside, close the ball. Flatten, sprinkle the bits with flour.
5. Fry in a pan with butter.
6. To serve, sprinkle the dish with powdered or pour with melted honey, any jam or syrup.
Rice chops with mushrooms
This dish can be made lean if you do not add an egg to it. For mushroom rice, simple champignons are used.
Ingredients
• 1 tbsp. rice;
• 200 g of mushrooms;
• 1 onion;
• 1 spoonful of flour;
• 1 egg;
• bread crumbs and butter;
• various spices.
Cooking
1. Cook rice until cooked, but not porridge. Excess liquid is drained using a colander.
2. Mushrooms or other mushrooms cut into small pieces, put in a frying pan and fry a little.
3. Cut the onion into cubes, fry with the mushrooms. We pepper and salt, remove from heat.
4. Combine mushrooms with rice.
5. Add an egg to them, stir it, put a spoonful of flour and you can make chops.
6. Breaded in crackers or in flour, fried in a skillet in oil until cooked.
7. Served such chops with different vegetable side dishes, or simply with sour cream.
Rice chops with cottage cheese
For this dish is used ready-made rice, you can take the remains of a side dish, in any case, it will turn out delicious. The recipe is universal, the dish can be made salty or sweet.
Ingredients
• 2 cups boiled rice;
• 1 pack of cottage cheese (0.18-0.2 kg);
• 1 egg;
• semolina, if necessary;
• salt, sugar;
• flour and butter.
Cooking
1. To grind the cottage cheese, so that there are no large pieces. Add salt or sugar for the sweet version. In this case, you can pour vanilla, cinnamon, raisins. Stir.
2. Combine the curd with rice, add the egg. Stir again.
3. If suddenly the mass turns out to be liquid, pour 1-3 spoons of semolina, mix and leave, so that the croup swells.
4. Sculpt chops, pan products in plain white flour, put on a chopping board.
5. Heat the oil, fry the formed products in it.
Rice chops with raw meat
For cooking rice rice balls, you can use not only boiled meat, but also raw meat. Naturally, the recipe will be different, like frying.
Ingredients
• 1 tbsp. rice;
• 300 g of meat;
• 1 clove garlic;
• 1 onion;
• 1 egg;
• 1 tbsp. crackers;
• spices, oil.
Cooking
1. Boil rice in a large amount of water, pour into a colander, leave to cool.
2. We twist raw meat with an onion and a clove of garlic. Connect with rice.
3. Add spices: salt, pepper, ready-made mixtures of seasonings for meat or minced meat.
4. At the end break the egg, thoroughly knead the mass.
5. Sculpt balls, roll in crackers, flatten into small washers.
6. Put it in hot oil. Fry in a pan until golden brown on one side.
7. Turn over the meatballs, cover the pan and cook under the lid so that the products can steamed inside.
8. It is also possible to use different sauces, gravies, vegetables, fresh greens for serving meat meatballs with rice.
Rice bits - useful tips and tricks
• So that the flour and breadcrumbs do not burn out and do not emit smoke, you should shake off the excess before laying the bits in the pan.
• For frying bitochkov better to use a mixture of vegetable and butter, get better.
• If there is a lot of water in the porridge, and the rice has already been boiled, you need to evaporate the excess liquid with the lid open, otherwise the mass for the chops will not work.
• Mushrooms can not be added to the total mass, but cook rice stuffed with rice.
