Fried Rice Cutlets
Origin: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Source: Elena Molokhovets (Елена Молоховец), 1901
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 stakan rice
- 6 stakans / 2 butylki water or milk
- 5 штук eggs
- 1/4 funt butter or frying fat
- wheat flour
- 1/2 ложка Provençal (olive) oil
- 1/2 булка breadcrumbs or roll
- 1 1/2 tbsp rosewater
- 1/4 glass sweet almonds
- sugar
- cinnamon (sweet version)
Instructions
- Cook rice soft (not crumbly), salt, cool; beat in butter, 1 egg and 2 yolks.
- Form cutlets with flour, bread in yolk-oil then crumbs, and fry.
- Serve savory (mushroom / sweet-sour sauce) or sweet (with rosewater, almonds, sabayon/milk/rum sauce).