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Cutlet No 6 Rice Cutlets
Leftovers are the nemesis of any housekeeper. I am sure you will all agree. One way to get rid of all leftovers is to have a leftovers night like in “The Incredibles”, second is to get it out the very next day, like hubby’s Maushi does and it’s compulsory that all eat it, easy if you have only leftovers in the fridge. But for me who has tomorrow’s veggie, chopped onions, cooked dal to name a few, all of which I store in the container that I have cooked because there will be too many vessels to wash. Leftovers are lost!!
So when I happen to want some space in the fridge I check leftovers. Which happens about once in 2-3 days and things get re-circulated.
I love to make cutlets and generally I make use of these leftovers to make them. I have no less than 5 cutlets here
1. Frankies
Since I love to make them so much I thought, what is the history of these succulent balls that can be eaten plain as well as stuffed in bread? What enterprising soul put in efforts to get start making them?
Was it something made out of necessity for the hard riding soldiers a quick meal on the horseback, can you imagine the Vikings riding out to a rendezvous night & day?
You have them in so many forms, burgers, frankies, even our humble vada pav is an example of these amazing invention.
So these questions naturally have you turning to Wikipedia. Here is what I read about them.
This is the Dictionary meaning of cutlet is cut·let pronounced as [kuht-lit] is a noun and is defined as
1. a slice of meat, especially of veal, for broiling or frying.
2. a flat croquette of minced chicken, lobster, or the like.
Wikipedia says
Cutlet (derived from French côtelette, côte ("rib")) refers to:
1. a thin slice of meat from the leg or ribs of veal, pork, or mutton (also known in various languages as a cotoletta or Kotelett)
2. a fried breaded cutlet
3. a croquette made of minced meat
4. a kind of fish fillet
5. various preparations using fried cutlets or croquettes
There are cutlets in various forms such as in
- American cuisine where chicken is used and the cutlet is usually run through flour, egg and bread crumbs then fried in a pan with some oil. The credited creator of the modern American chicken cutlet is thought to be Michael Santaniello.
- Cutlets are also available In British Cuisine where it is called a chop.
- Indian cuisine famous being Aloo Tikki.
- Italian cuisine the most famous is the Milanese cutlet (cotoletta alla milanese); a veal cutlet covered in bread crumbs and fried in butter or the Wienerschnitzel.
- The Japanese pronounce cutlet as katsuretsu or shorter katsu is breaded cutlet. Dishes with katsu include tonkatsu and katsudon. These are few of the many variations I read.
The Wise Geek says," One of the classic preparations for cutlets involves dredging them in flour, following with beaten eggs and bread crumbs. The breaded cutlets are fried and served hot with lemon or other sauces, along with side dishes such as vegetables or mashed potatoes. Cutlets may also be simmered in curries, broiled, roasted, baked, or simply sautéed plain. Generally, the shorter the cooking process, the better the cutlet will be."
Sounds like a kofta does it not?
Coming back to the cutlet
When I read about using leftover rice to make them (I do not know for sure where I read this delicious use) but I was delighted, as I had quite some leftover rice…
As I could not remember where I had read the original recipe, so was unable to search for it and in the end, I had to use my own rusty brain which for reasons known to itself these days does not crank up as easily.
The end result was after a lot of addition and trial and error and made over a period of 2 days. The first day the cutlets were rejected as I had used sweet chili sauce, lots of it, silly me even my younger kid refused to eat them. I was told that I have made a “wrong mistake” as it is said in Goa, I am not joking this word is used in Goa.
So the next day I added some green chillies and the resultant cutlets were appreciated not only by the kids but my FIL also.
Here is what I did and what you can avoid.
Ingredients:
2 cups cooked rice
2 boiled potatoes, grated
1 cup oats, roasted and ground
1 big onion, chopped
1 cup green peas, boiled
2 tblsp tomato ketchup
2 tbsp sweet chili sauce (wrong mistake)
1 tblsp all purpose sauce
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 green chillies, crushed
Salt
to taste
to taste
Rava for coating
Oil for shallow frying
Method:
Mix rice, potatoes, oats, onion, green peas, all the sauces, garlic, and green chillies, salt to taste make a soft dough.
Make small balls, dredge in rava and shallow fry on a non stick tava.
Now since it got rejected I had to make up a new dish, here is what I did
Ingredients:
2 boiled potato
1 cup rava, roasted
1 onion roughly chopped
4-5 green chillies
5 springs of coriander
5 slices bread, soaked and squeezed
2 tsp red chili powder (adjust as per taste)
Salt to taste
Oil to shallow fry
Method:
Grind the onions, green chillies, coriander and red chili powder to a paste.
Mix all the ingredients in the dough made above. Mix well.
Now check the seasoning, adjust the salt. Please note that we have already added salt earlier it needs to be distributed properly.
Make small balls flatten them and dredge them in rava and shallow fry.
Serve hot with tomato sauce.So in this way I got rid of my leftovers, rice in particular and had a delicious accompaniment + earned a lot of compliments!!
Mix all the ingredients in the dough made above. Mix well.
Now check the seasoning, adjust the salt. Please note that we have already added salt earlier it needs to be distributed properly.
Make small balls flatten them and dredge them in rava and shallow fry.
Serve hot with tomato sauce.So in this way I got rid of my leftovers, rice in particular and had a delicious accompaniment + earned a lot of compliments!!
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saffronstreaks says
I love cutlet in any form ! nice insight into cutlet history, love to read such foodie things
Saraswathi Tharagaram says
Good collection of cutlets..nice idea to use leftover rice...looks great..
Priya says
Love to finish leftover rice this way too, fabulous looking cutlets.
divya says
Wow ! Really its tempting me to taste it right now 🙂
Now Serving says
The wrong mistake really cracked me up - I loved this very detailed post and the cutlets with rice are rather a new preparation. Looks splendidly edible!
Julie says
Lovely take of left over cooked rice,yummy Cutlets!!
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Swathi Iyer says
Delicious cutlet recipe Archana love it.
Nivedhanams Sowmya says
interesting cutlets with rice flour!!
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runnergirlinthekitchen.blogspot.com says
Some one has been doing a lot of research, thanks for making it easier for me :)) I too love to read and know about the origin of food.
Cutlets look crispy and am sure tasted great! I am planning something over the weekend to make and post for ur challenge this month!
Sangeetha Nambi says
Love to taste it....
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Divya Pramil says
Even I hate Leftover food becoming waste.. Loved this... 🙂
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Priya Sreeram says
delightful way of using the left over rice- am bookmarking this archana !
Kaveri Venkatesh says
Great way to get rid of left over rice...Looks tempting
Archana Potdar says
Thanks all of you. Its great reading you ladies.
Kathryn Ferguson Griffin says
I love cutlets. Great history. Thank you for sharing and thank you for the visit and sweet comment at The Dedicated House. It means the world. Would love it if you would share this at my Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.com/2012/10/make-it-pretty-monday-week-17.html Hope to see you at the bash! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse
Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj says
wow what a cutlet... so yummy n tempting archana...
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Swasthi says
loved your way of using cooked rice for these cutlets. they look great Archana!
cookingvarieties says
hi archana../.first time i see these pretty looking cutlets. as well interesting finds on cutlet variations- great sharing dear. have a nice day
Kitchen Queen says
love it.
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