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Vegetable Rice Cutlet from Leftover Rice

Nov 18, 2022. by Bhavana Patil. 8 Comments | This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Vegetable Rice Cutlet Recipe or Tikki are rice cutlets made with leftover cooked rice blended with mixed vegetables. It serves as a great party appetizer. Serve these rice and potato cutlets with green chutney or ketchup.

Vegetable Rice Cutlet served on a plate with tomato ketchup on the side
Vegetable Rice Cutlet

Cutlets are a popular appetizer or snack in Indian cuisine. They can also be used as veggie patties for a vegetable burger or make tikki chats.

These vegetable cutlets are shallow pan-fried with very little oil to make them healthy. You can also bake, air fry, or deep fry these cutlets.

Why You'll Love These Vegetable Rice Tikkis

  • It can be made with leftover cooked rice
  • Easy and delicious
  • Loaded with veggies
  • Perfect teatime snack
  • It can be adapted to make dishes like chaats, wraps, or burgers.
  • It can be shallow-fried, baked, or air-fried.
  • Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free.

Ingredients

  • Cooked Rice: leftover rice or freshly cooked rice. I used short-grain sona masuri rice in this recipe.
  • Potato: I used boiled and mashed potatoes.
  • Veggies: I used onions, carrot, green beans, bell pepper, spinach, and green chilies.
  • Ginger: use freshly grated or minced ginger.
  • Herbs: Coriander leaves.
  • 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.
  • Lemon Juice: use freshly squeezed lemon or lime juice.
  • Oil: for shallow or air fry.

How to Make Vegetable Rice Cutlet from Leftover rice

Take a mixing bowl. Add cooked rice and mash it with a spoon or hand till soft.

step to mash the cooked rice in the bowl

Then add all the ingredients mentioned above except oil.

step to add vegetables and rice flour

Mix the mixture with your hand. Add more cornflour if the mixture is moist. (DO NOT ADD WATER).

step to make a smooth dough

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.

step to make a cutlet shape

Heat oil in a Tawa. Once the oil heats enough, carefully place 4-5 tikkis in hot oil and shallow fry it on medium flame until the sides become golden brown.

step to shallow fry

Remove vegetable rice tikkis on absorbent paper. Once all done, serve rice and potato tikki hot with green chutney or ketchup, and enjoy.

Vegetable Rice Cutlet from Left Over rice|Rice Tikki

How to Make 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.

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.
  • You may use these rice cutlets to make burgers.
  • Prepare Rice cutlet chaat similar to aloo tikki chaat by pouring the coriander mint chutney and tamarind sweet chutneys 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 wraps, Frankies, or Kathi tolls.

Variations to make Rice Cutlet

  • 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 also make this rice cutlet without boiled potato by replacing potatoes with powdered rolled oats, crumbled paneer, chickpea flour, poha, or bread crumbs for binding.

Other Healthy Snack Recipes

  • Makhana Chivda
  • Corn Bhel
  • Mexican Style Golgappa with Fruit Pani
  • Corn Pakoda
  • Air Fryer Beetroot Cutlet/Tikki
  • Maddur Vada

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Vegetable Rice Cutlet served on a plate with tomato ketchup on the side

Vegetable Rice Cutlet from Left Over rice (Rice Tikki)

Bhavana Patil
Vegetable Rice Cutlet Recipe are rice cutlets made with boiled rice blended with mix vegetables.
4.89 from 9 votes
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Servings: 2
Calories : 573
Course: Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Diet: Gluten-Free, Vegan, Vegetarian
Method: Stovetop
Prep Time : 15 minutes
Cook Time : 5 minutes
Total Time : 20 minutes

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 (palak) finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon green beans finely chopped
  • 2 tablespoon coriander chopped
  • 1 green chili finely chopped
  • 3 tablespoon 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
  • juice of ½ lemon
  • 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.
    step to mash the cooked rice in the bowl
  • Then add all the ingredients mentioned above except oil.
    step to add vegetables and rice flour
  • Mix mixture with your hand, add more corn flour if mixture is moist.(DO NOT ADD WATER).
    step to make a smooth dough
  • 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.
    step to make a cutlet shape
  • 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.
    step to shallow fry
  • Remove tikkis/cutlets on absorbent paper. Once all done, serve hot Leftover Rice Cutlets with green chutney or ketchup and enjoy…
    Vegetable Rice Cutlet served on a plate with tomato ketchup on the side

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

  1. You can add grated beetroot, chopped methi leaves to make dish more healthy.
  2. Use cooked Brown rice instead of white rice for healthier choice.
  3. You can also add ½ cup of cooked quinoa to make quinoa rice cutlets.
  4. You can also make this rice cutlet without boiled potato by replacing potatoes with powdered rolled oats or crumbles paneer or chickpea flour or poha or bread crumbs for binding.

Nutrition

Calories: 573kcalCarbohydrates: 73gProtein: 7gFat: 29gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 1gSodium: 112mgPotassium: 983mgFiber: 7gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 3838IUVitamin C: 67mgCalcium: 50mgIron: 2mg
Keyword leftover rice recipes, rice cutlet, rice tikki
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  1. PraGun says

    May 01, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    It's the best way to utilize leftover rice and kids love it a lot. I make it often in Tiffin.

    Reply
    • bhavana says

      May 03, 2019 at 5:21 pm

      yeah with lots of veggies it healthy too

      Reply
  2. Manju says

    April 21, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    5 stars
    This came out quite good, thank you!
    -Manju

    Reply
    • bhavana says

      April 21, 2020 at 9:05 pm

      You are welcome ,thanks for sharing

      Reply
  3. Bina shetty says

    July 23, 2020 at 9:00 am

    5 stars
    very easy to make and delicious.

    Reply
    • bhavana says

      July 24, 2020 at 7:56 am

      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 ?

      Reply
  4. Anonymous says

    July 26, 2020 at 11:38 am

    Superb recipe!??

    Reply
    • bhavana says

      July 26, 2020 at 4:08 pm

      Thank you ?

      Reply

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