Rice is used as a side dish by many people. It often becomes a component of soups; such cereal goes to stuffed cabbage and meatballs. However, this range of rice uses is something very limited and flawed. Rice is capable of more! Take note of at least rice cakes that replace a full breakfast or dinner, can be a great side dish, a wonderful treat or a quality afternoon snack for children.
The main thing that needs to be remembered when starting to cook them: the friable long-grain rice that we value is not suitable here. It is necessary to take sticky varieties: round, crushed, Japanese, intended for sushi. If there is nothing suitable and too lazy to go to the store - get a coffee grinder or combine and turn crumbly groats into crushed ones.
Rice and meat balls
Consider a non-dessert option first. It is quite suitable both as a second course for dinner, and as a pleasant breakfast, and even for dinner will not be superfluous. Cooking meatballs rice. The recipe requires first to boil half a cup of correct rice and chop (but you can grind) a third of a kilogram of meat, preferably of two kinds. A small onion, a bunch of parsley and two cloves of garlic are chopped and mixed with minced meat. There are added two raw yolks, salt and peppers - ground black and the same chili. The meat is combined with rice; Pour breadcrumbs in such an amount that the stuffing is not too sticky to the hands. After kneading, balls are molded from it and fried from all sides in vegetable oil. With ketchup or soy sauce - just a jumble!
Rice with fish
Another rice hats that can become your favorite breakfast. In addition, they can be eaten in fasting when fish is allowed. Suitable for any marine, including ice cream, for example, pollock or hake. The carcass is cut into slices and passed through a blender with half a raw onion. The second half is finely chopped, sautéed and combined with boiled rice. Both masses are mixed; if you do not fast, an egg is driven into the minced meat. If you fast, rub one raw or two boiled potatoes into it. The minced meat is salted and peppered, koloboks roll from it, crumble in breadcrumbs and fry: first until crisp, then you can stew it under the lid.
Vegetable meatballs with rice
Especially tasty as a side dish. However, they are wonderful in their own right if you abstain from meat. And grain is better to take a brown variety. She will need half a glass, cooked according to the instructions.
Large, fleshy red peppers are cut into small squares. Feather and cilantro are chopped finely; greens are mixed with pepper, rice and canned corn, two eggs are driven in, the mass is seasoned and kneaded. For greater cohesion, a couple of spoons of flour are poured into it, the minced meat is mixed again.
You do not need to sculpt cutlets: the mass is laid out with a spoon on a hot frying pan with oil, like fritters, only a slide. After roasting, rice meatballs with vegetables are briefly laid out on a paper napkin so that the glass is excess oil. As a sauce, sour cream is especially relevant.
Mushroom Rice Mushrooms
One cannot ignore such a component as champignons. Rice cakes with them are amazing, and they do not cause much trouble in cooking.
Two cups of boiled rice are fried in two glasses of chopped smaller mushrooms with chopped onion. The grill combines with porridge, two steep eggs are cut there. Salt, spices, pepper - at your discretion. Rice cakes with champignons are rolled out of the minced meat, crumbled in flour and fried. It turns out gently and tasty.
Vanilla skewers sauce
Let's move on to dessert recipes. In principle, if rice meat porridge is not supplemented with meat and vegetables, but simply watered with jam, a good treat will already be obtained. But in order to attract the attention of children, it is better to try a little.
Half a glass of rice in a glass of water is boiled for a third of an hour, after which it is left on the quietest fire - for thickening and stewing. When the porridge cools down, a spoonful of sugar is poured into it, the egg is driven in, the balls are molded, breaded in flour or breadcrumbs and quickly fried in vegetable oil.
The main thing in this dish is sauce. For him, half a glass of sugar is carefully ground with two yolks and a spoonful of flour. Having achieved a pasty state, pour one and a half glasses of milk and, with constant stirring, boil until it boils. After filtering, half a bag of vanillin dissolves in the sauce, and the aromatic dressing is poured on the rice chops. Make more sauce so that no one complains that it wasn’t enough for some meatballs.
Curd Rice Dainty
Rice balls come out even more airy if they are complemented with cottage cheese. Half a cup of cereal will require the same amount of the second product.
To achieve a tender consistency, it is better to rub the cottage cheese through a colander or crank it a couple of times in a meat grinder. After that, an egg is driven into it, a spoonful of sugar is poured (you can powder), and the mass is kneaded. When it becomes smooth, porridge is introduced, previously flavored with butter and cooled. Cottage cheese and rice cakes are formed, crumbled in flour and fried. Note that the mass is very airy. So that when eating, there is no conflict between the delicate "entrails" and the rough crust, it is necessary to fry on a quiet fire.
Coconut Rice Chops
Buying a natural nut is now not a problem at all. True, with its cutting, you will have to suffer a little, but the gratitude of your children will not know the boundaries. A glass of cereal is washed, a quarter of the coconut is rubbed, both ingredients are mixed and poured with three glasses of water. The resulting mixture is put on low heat and cooked quietly until the water boils away and the rice becomes soft.
Before removing from the stove, a little salt and sugar are poured - as much as your homeworkers love. While the porridge is getting cold, sour-tasting berries are washed - blueberries, cherries or cranberries. Frozen are quite suitable. Balls are molded from the “stuffing”, a berry is put into each of them, rice cakes are breaded in flour and fried. You can water it with any sweetness - syrup, jam, jelly. Is that condensed milk will not be very harmonious.
Indulge your children - make them sweet rice cakes. The recipe (with photo) will help you make them not only tasty, but also very appetizing in appearance.