Vegetable Rice Cutlets, also known as Tikki, are delicious cutlets made using leftover cooked rice combined with mixed vegetables. They make a fantastic party appetizer and pair wonderfully with green chutney or ketchup.
Cutlets are a popular appetizer or snack in Indian cuisine. They can also be used as veggie patties for a vegetable burger or to make tikki chaats.
Today I am sharing an easy leftover rice recipe called vegetable rice cutlets. It is made with cooked rice, lots of vegetables, and spices. They are shallow-fried with very little oil to make them healthy. You can also bake, air fry, or deep fry these cutlets. They are super delicious, similar to my aloo tikki, beetroot tikki, and sabudana vada.
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Ingredients
- Cooked Rice: leftover rice or freshly cooked rice. I cooked sona masoori rice in Instant pot for this recipe.
- Potato: I used boiled and mashed potatoes. I boiled the potatoes in Instant Pot.
- Veggies: I used onions, carrots, green beans, bell peppers, spinach, and green chilies.
- Ginger: Use freshly grated or minced ginger.
- Spices: turmeric, red chili powder, garam masala, and chaat masala.
- Cornstarch: used to bind and crisp up the cutlets. You can also use besan flour or rice flour.
How to Make Vegetable Rice Cutlets from Leftover Rice
Take a mixing bowl. Add 1 cup of cooked rice and mash it with a spoon or hand till soft.
Then add all the ingredients mentioned above except oil.
Mix the mixture with your hands. Add more cornflour if the mixture is moist. (DO NOT ADD WATER).
Grease your palm with a teaspoon of oil so that the mixture does not stick. Now make a small lemon-sized ball, flatten it between your palm, and make round-shaped cutlets/tikki.
Use the same process for the remaining mixture and make more cutlets.
Heat oil in a pan. Once the oil heats enough, carefully place 4-5 tikkis in hot oil and shallow fry them on medium flame until the sides become golden brown.
Remove vegetable rice tikkis on absorbent paper. Once all done, serve rice and potato tikki hot with green chutney or ketchup, and enjoy.
How to Make Rice Cutlet in an Air Fryer?
To make Rice cutlets in an Air Fryer, line the cutlets on the air fryer basket in a single layer.
Brush or spray the cutlets with some oil. Air fry in a preheated air fryer at 350°F (176°C) for 12-15 minutes or until they are browned and crispy. Shake them halfway through.
Serving Suggestions
You can serve vegetable rice cutlets in many ways.
- Enjoy the cutlets with some ketchup for the evening teatime snack, along with masala chai.
- Prepare rice cutlet chaat similar to aloo tikki chaat by adding coriander mint chutney and sweet tamarind chutney on top of the tikkis with some chilled yogurt along with some sev, chaat masala, and coriander leaves.
- You can also use these rice tikkis in burgers, wraps, frankies, or kathi rolls.
Variations
- You can add grated beetroot, chopped methi leaves to make the dish more healthy.
- Use cooked brown rice instead of white rice for healthier choices.
- You can also add ½ cup of cooked quinoa to make quinoa rice cutlets.
- You can prepare these rice cutlets without boiled potatoes by using alternatives like boiled sweet potatoes, powdered rolled oats, crumbled paneer, gram flour, poha, or bread crumbs for binding.
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Vegetable Rice Cutlet from Left Over Rice (Rice Tikki)
Ingredients
- 1 cup leftover rice (or fresh cooked rice)
- 1 large potato (about ½ cup) boiled and mashed potato
- ¼ cup carrot grated
- ¼ cup onion finely chopped
- ¼ cup capsicum finely chopped
- ¼ cup spinach finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon green beans finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons coriander leaves chopped
- 1 green chili finely chopped
- 3 tablespoons cornflour (You can use roasted gram/besan flour or rice flour too)
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
- ½ teaspoon red chili powder
- 1 teaspoon ginger grated
- 1 teaspoon chaat masala powder
- ½ teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- salt to taste
- ¼ cup oil to shallow fry
Instructions
- Take a mixing bowl. Add cooked rice and mash it with spoon or hand till soft.
- Then add all the ingredients mentioned above except oil.
- Mix mixture with your hand, add more corn flour if mixture is moist.(DO NOT ADD WATER).
- Grease your palm with a teaspoon of oil so that mixture does not stick.
- Now make small lemon size ball, flatten it between your hand palm and make round shaped cutlets/tikki.
- Use same process for remaining mixture and make more cutlets.
- Heat oil in a tawa. Once oil heat enough, place 4-5 tikkis in hot oil carefully and shallow fry it on medium flame till sides become golden brown.
- Remove tikkis/cutlets on absorbent paper. Once all done, serve hot Leftover Rice Cutlets with green chutney or ketchup and enjoy…
Rice Cutlet in Air Fryer
- To make Rice cutlets in an Air Fryer, line the cutlets on the air fryer basket in a single layer.Brush or spray the cutlets with some oil. Air fry in a preheated air fryer at 350°F (176°C) for 12-15 minutes or until they are browned and crispy. Shake them halfway through.
Notes
- You can add grated beetroot, chopped methi leaves to make the dish more healthy.
- Use cooked brown rice instead of white rice for healthier choices.
- You can also add ½ cup of cooked quinoa to make quinoa rice cutlets.
- You can prepare these rice cutlets without boiled potatoes by using alternatives like boiled sweet potatoes, powdered rolled oats, crumbled paneer, gram flour, poha, or bread crumbs for binding.
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Josephine Cleary
can these be frozen
Bhavana Patil
Frozen rice may not give a good texture once they are thawed. So i would not recommend.
Anonymous
Superb recipe!??
bhavana
Thank you ?
Bina shetty
very easy to make and delicious.
bhavana
Thank you so much Bina ? So glad you loved the recipe, do try other recipes and let us know how it goes, have a great day ?
Manju
This came out quite good, thank you!
-Manju
bhavana
You are welcome ,thanks for sharing
PraGun
It's the best way to utilize leftover rice and kids love it a lot. I make it often in Tiffin.
bhavana
yeah with lots of veggies it healthy too