Rice porridge in itself can be a full-fledged dish, but it’s so boring! Much more interesting and tasty is the cue from it.
The dish is tasty and unusual, has a lot of options and recipes, the best of them are collected here.
Rice balls - general principles of cooking
Rice porridge is usually prepared for meatballs, but not very thick and not liquid. It is best suited for her cheap rice varieties, you can even chopped. Porridge is prepared on vodka or on its mixture with milk, the base is sure to be salted. Sugar is added to the sweet varieties. You can navigate according to the recipe or to your taste.
What else is put in the meatballs:
• egg;
• dried fruits, candied fruits;
• meat products;
• mushrooms and vegetables;
• cottage cheese, cheese.
The method of adding additives depends on their type; some products require preliminary heat treatment, for example, mushrooms. Other ingredients are placed raw.
The cocks are molded with hands. So that the rice does not stick and the surface is easily smoothed out, you can wet your palms in cold water. Usually, the little balls are shaped like washers. To do this, first roll the ball in their hands, then flatten. Almost always, the dish is breaded in flour or breadcrumbs. Next, fry in a pan.
Simple rice balls
This dish can be served independently with different sauces or instead of baking tea. The taste of meatballs will directly depend on spices, you can safely experiment.
Ingredients
• 1.5 tbsp. rice;
• salt and other spices;
• egg;
• 4 glasses of water;
• bread crumbs;
• frying oil.
Cooking
1. Rinse the rice several times, fall asleep in boiling, always salted water, prepare a 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 the porridge, add spices to your taste: paprika, turmeric, black pepper, you can add fresh or dried garlic. Knead thoroughly.
3. We make small meatballs from the minced meat. The size is approximately 70-80 grams. We periodically wet our hands with water so that the rice does not stick and it turns out to smooth the balls.
4. Flatten. Bread in breadcrumbs. We shift so far to the board. It is advisable to mold all products at once, since they are fried quickly.
5. We heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, fry the formed rice products from two sides until golden brown. You do not need to steam them under the lid.
6. Serve the meatballs with sour cream, ketchup, soft cheese or garlic sauce. In addition, you can serve fresh, canned vegetables, herbs.
Rice meatballs with boiled meat
You can take any meat or poultry to prepare such rice meatballs. For example, residues after cooking broth. The weight of the seedless finished product is indicated.
Ingredients
• 200 g of rice;
• 200 g of meat;
• 1 onion head;
• 1 large egg;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• breadcrumbs or flour for breading;
• oil, seasoning.
Cooking
1. Cook porridge. 550 ml of water will be required for this amount of rice. If you need more, you can add boiling water. Porridge is salted.
2. Cut into small cubes one large onion. We put it in a frying pan with one tablespoon of oil and sauté until cooked over medium heat, you do not need to brown much. It’s also not worth adding more oil so that the meatballs do not turn out oily.
3. Cut the meat into small cubes. We shift it to the sautéed onion, stir it and put it together in the cooked, still warm porridge, pour the flour. Mix.
4. Add spices to taste, introduce the egg and knead. We leave for a while, so that the porridge is still cool and the mass becomes thicker.
5. Now we sculpt small meatballs in the form of a washer, bread in breadcrumbs. Or use plain flour for breading.
6. It remains only to fry the meatballs in oil. We act, as in the previous recipe. We cook for two minutes on each side until a crust appears.
7. We serve meatballs with meat to fresh or stewed vegetables, can be used as an independent dish.
Sweet Rice Balls with Raisins
A variant of an amazing dessert, which can be prepared not only with raisins, but also with other dried fruits. Porridge is cooked in milk, but you can also use just water.
Ingredients
• 300 g of rice;
• 250 ml of water;
• 2 glasses of milk;
• 80 g of raisins;
• 1 egg;
• 60 g of sugar;
• 1 bag of vanilla;
• a little flour for breading;
• butter and vegetable oil for frying;
• powdered sugar for serving.
Cooking
1. Combine water with milk, put on a stove.
2. Wash rice in several stages, add to boiling liquid, salt and boil porridge. At the end, add sugar to dissolve, remove from heat.
3. Sort out raisins, if necessary, can be soaked in water. But if it is soft, rinse well enough. Add to the rice.
4. Cool the porridge, but not much. Shake the egg with a fork, add. For aroma, put vanillin or vanilla sugar.
5. We collect a spoonful of porridge with a slide, put it on a moistened hand, first form a ball, then flatten, roll in flour, but not much, and only on two main sides.
6. Put a little butter in a pan and pour the same amount of vegetable fat. To warm.
7. Spread the formed meatballs, fry until golden brown and transfer to the dish.
8. Let cool, sprinkle with powder, serve to the table with tea, coffee, in addition we offer sour cream, jam, condensed milk or any sweet cream.
Orange Rice Chops
Another version of sweet rice cakes, which differ not only in the addition of candied fruits, but also simply amazing aroma. Orange is not needed, only its zest is needed. Similarly, you can take a lemon, it will also turn out delicious.
Ingredients
• 200 g of rice;
• 600 ml of water;
• salt, sugar;
• 60 g candied fruit;
• 1 orange;
• 1 egg;
• flour and butter.
Cooking
1. Cook on the stove a 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, 2-3 tablespoons of sugar is enough.
2. Cool the porridge, add the egg, mix.
3. Rinse well with citrus, take a grater or vegetable knife, remove the zest from the whole orange. Grind, add to porridge.
4. Take a spoonful of mass, flatten in the palm of your hand, put candied fruits inside, close in a ball. Flatten, sprinkle the meatballs with flour.
5. Fry in a skillet with butter.
6. For serving, sprinkle the dish with powder or pour over melted honey, any jam or syrup.
Mushroom Rice Chops
This dish can be made lean if you don’t add an egg to it. Simple rice mushrooms are used for rice cakes.
Ingredients
• 1 tbsp. rice;
• 200 g of mushrooms;
• 1 onion head;
• 1 spoon of flour;
• 1 egg;
• breadcrumbs and butter;
• various spices.
Cooking
1. Cook rice until cooked, but not porridge. Drain excess liquid with a colander.
2. Cut mushrooms or other mushrooms into small pieces, put in a skillet and fry a little.
3. Cut the onion head into cubes, fry with the mushrooms. Pepper and salt, remove from heat.
4. Combine the mushrooms with rice.
5. Add the egg to them, stir, put a spoonful of flour and you can sculpt the meatballs.
6. Bread in breadcrumbs or flour, fry in a pan in oil until cooked.
7. Served such meatballs with different vegetable side dishes or just with sour cream.
Rice Chops with Cottage Cheese
Ready-made rice is used for this dish, you can take the rest of the 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 of boiled rice;
• 1 pack of cottage cheese (0.18-0.2 kg);
• 1 egg;
• semolina if necessary;
• salt, sugar;
• flour and butter.
Cooking
1. Grind the cottage cheese so that it does not have large pieces. Add salt or sugar for a sweet option. In this case, you can pour vanilla, cinnamon, raisins. Stir.
2. Combine the cottage cheese with rice, add the egg. We interfere repeatedly.
3. If suddenly the mass turns out to be liquid, pour 1-3 tablespoons of semolina, mix and leave the cereal to swell.
4. Sculpt the meatballs, bread the products in plain white flour, put on a cutting board.
5. Heat the oil, fry the formed products in it.
Raw Meat Rice Chops
For the preparation of rice meatballs, you can use not only boiled, but also raw meat. Naturally, the recipe will be different, as well as frying.
Ingredients
• 1 tbsp. rice;
• 300 g of meat;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 1 onion head;
• 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. Twist the raw meat along with the onion and a clove of garlic. We combine with rice.
3. Add spices: salt, pepper, ready-made seasoning mixes for meat or minced meat.
4. At the end, break the egg, thoroughly knead the mass.
5. We make balls, roll in crackers, flatten into small washers.
6. Spread in preheated oil. Fry in a skillet until golden brown on one side.
7. Turn the meatballs over, cover the pan and cook under the lid so that the items have time to steam inside.
8. You can also use different sauces, gravy, vegetables, fresh herbs to serve meatballs with rice.
Rice balls - useful tips and tricks
• To prevent flour and breadcrumbs from burning up and not emitting smoke, shake off excesses before putting the meatballs in a skillet.
• For frying meatballs, it is better to use a mixture of vegetable and butter, it will turn out tastier.
• If there is a lot of water in the porridge, and the rice has already been cooked, you need to evaporate the excess liquid with the lid open, otherwise the mass for the meatballs will not work.
• Mushrooms can not be added to the total mass, but to cook rice balls with filling.
