Left Over Rice Tikki

Some time ago, I had a few guests visiting my home and I had made so much of food that it got left. the most left over food was Rice. Thankfully, I had made them plain :)

I was thinking of just frying these rice with curd, but my mind has never settled for normal. So,  I just tried something new. I made rice and cheese fritters with mint dip. They turned out to be delicious and heavy, these could be used as a tea time snack on those days when you just want to gobble up some fruits or a bowl of Dal in the dinner.

So here is the recipe:
Ingredients:

Leftover Rice: 1 cup
Besan: 3 big spoons
Bread crumbs: 2 bread
Salt to taste
Garam Masala: half a tbsp
Freshly grinded Black pepper powder
Finely chopped green chilli
Small cubes of Mozzarella cheese
A little Milk accordingly

For the dip:

Mint leaves
Hung Curd: 6 tbsp
Oil: 1 tbsp
Salt

Procedure:

Mix the rice, besan, bread crumbs, salt, garam masala, black pepper powder and chillis in a bowl. If the mixture becomes a little too hard then you can add some milk accordingly to make it a little softer. Make medium sized tikkis from the mixture and give them a shape of a bowl. To those bowl shaped tikkis , put a piece of mozzarella cheese and cover the tikki up. Make sure that you stuff and seal the cheese cube completely.

Now, there are three options to make these mouth watering fritters.

1. Deep Fry: Heat oil in a Kadhai and fry these tikkis (you can also give them the shape of a ball) untill golden color. Take off the excess oil through a tissue paper and serve hot.
2. Shallow fry: Take 5 tbsp of oil in a frying pan and heat it. keep the tikkis in the pan and shallow fry them on a low flame till they turn golden in color.
3. Bake: I have a gas tandoor so you can just heat it a little and apply some oil on the tikkis and bake them until golden, or you can even use a microwave oven for the same. This option is the best for all those calorie cutters.

For the mint dip, wash and clean some mint leaves. To these, add some hung curd, oil and salt to taste and grind them together. You can also add some cream to this.

Serve them hot with the dip and click come pictures too. 

I had my tikkis shallow fried.

You can also add some sort of veggies in the mixture like french beans, corn kernels, carrot or peas.The canvas is all yours, paint it as you like :)