Monday, April 28, 2008

Rice Platters


You can show your creativity with the vegetables you have or according to your taste in snacks also. This can be the weekend recipe when you have some left over rice prepared for lunch. You can prepare this tasty and cruncy snack with the rice and feel proud of not wasting the food.

Ingredients
No of persons - 3

  1. Rice - 2 cups
  2. Butter milk - 1 cup
  3. Onion - 1(chopped)
  4. Potato - 1(chopped)
  5. Jalepeno - 2 (chopped)
  6. Methi leaves - 1 cup(chopped)
  7. Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp
  8. Pepper powder - 1 tbsp
  9. Chilli powder -1 tbsp
  10. Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
  11. Besan flour - 1 cup
  12. Salt - as needed
  13. Oil - for frying
Method

  1. Mix rice with butter milk and keep aside
  2. Mix onion, potato, jalapeno, coriander and methi leaves and add it to the rice mixture
  3. Add turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt to it.
  4. Add besan flour slowly to the mixture till it loses the watery nature and gets hard to make balls.
  5. Make small balls and fry it in oil.
  6. Fry it in medium flame till it turns golden brown.
  7. Remove it from the flame and keep it in tissue paper to reduce the excess oil

Frying tips : Mixture should hold well and be dry. Medium the flame for frying even on both sides(outside and inside)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting recipe. We have banana fritters but never rice fritters. What a great way to not waste food. Thanks for sharing.