Vegan Rice Fritters – Leftover Rice Recipe Vegan
An easy way to reuse leftover rice – a simple recipe for fast, vegan rice cakes without eggs. The perfect leftover rice recipe vegan.
You have leftovers of your delicious risotto and don’t know what to do with them? This simple recipe for rice fritters without eggs and without many other ingredients is perfect to reuse leftovers. And the small vegan rice cakes are not only simple and tasty, but also super healthy and perfect for meal prep.
Fried rice with leftover rice
If you don’t have much time and don’t feel like cooking, a risotto is great. It’s simple and takes less than 25 minutes to prepare. Also, you can easily add vegetables or many other ingredients like fresh herbs or saffron to add flavour to the risotto.
But what often happens when you don’t weigh the rice accurately? You overestimate the amount extremely and by the end of cooking, you’ve cooked way too much rice because it increases extremelx in volume during cooking. With this recipe, you can easily turn leftover risotto into something delicious and healthy!
Cook once, eat twice
Meal Prep is quite popular at the moment. No wonder, because it saves a lot of time and still makes it possible not to use highly processed products. If you’re new to meal prep: you take some time to pre-cook ingredients and dishes, so you don’t have to cook in stressful situations throughout the week, or you can bring food to work. Advantages of meal prep:
- extreme time saving: in just a few hours it is possible to cook for a whole week. With this recipe, you’ll need less than 30 minutes total to cook two delicious, different meals for the family.
- Cook fresh: despite the short time in the kitchen, you can work with fresh ingredients and avoid processed products.
- Eat healthier more simply: if you come home exhausted after a long day at work and find dinner already in the fridge, you’re not that likely to resort to a delivery service or frozen pizza.
- comfortable for everyday life: between work and family, there is often little time and energy to cook
- Meal to go: it is perfect to take to work or even to an outdoor picnic.
Cook double the recipe for this easy green risotto with broccoli and spinach and just make rice patties with one half of the risotto. Like that you only cooked once and ate twice.
What can I do with leftover rice?
Here are some ideas: try some leftover rice recipes fritters like this easy rice cakes without eggs, reheat it in the microwave, store it in the freezer until you want to use it.
How to reheat leftover rice?
Cooked rice can be heated in the microwave. If you have some basmati rice left over, you can also heat it with a little water in a pot on the stove. For leftover risotto, it is best to form rice fritters with just a few ingredients and then cook them in a pan until crispy.
How to store leftover rice?
The best way to store rice is to let it cool completely and put it in a container. Seal the container airtight with a lid and store the rice in the refrigerator for at least 3 days.
How to freeze leftover rice?
Let the cooked rice cool completely. To keep it from freezing in a lump, you can spread it out on a tray or a wide container and put it in the freezer like this for 4 hours. After that time, you can easily put the rice in another container and store it there for a few months. To defrost: place the container in the refrigerator for a day or defrost at room temperature in a few hours.
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Vegan Rice Fritters – leftover rice recipe vegan
Ingredients
- 800 g risotto leftovers no matter if you added vegtables or herbs to the risotto
- 40 g breadcrumbs
- 1 tbsp olive oil and more for frying
- 1 tbsp mustard
- ¼ Tl siracha sauce
- salt and pepper
- herbs of your choice
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl with a spoon until you have a sticky, firm mixture. If your risotto was rather runny, you can add more breadcrumbs. Salt and pepper the mixture to taste.
- Moisten your hands lightly with water and form a ball out of a small part of the mass.Flatten this ball into a rice fritter and set it aside until you have formed all the fritters.
- Heat some olive oil in a pan. Fry the rice fritters on medium heat for 3 minutes, creating a crispy, light brown crust. Then you can turn the rice cakes and fry them in some oil on the other side for another 3 minutes. Fry all the rice cakes this way, adding a little olive oil to the pan every now and then to prevent the fritters from sticking.
- Serve the rice pancakes with a salad, a vegetable dish or a curry. The rice fritters will last at least 3 days in the fridge.
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