
Cheesy Rice burst is a delicious Appetizer/Snack/Main dish which can be easily prepared in very few minutes. It is a lip smacking dish which is crispier outside and very soft inside. A left over Rice/Cooked rice is turned to a toothsome dish with this easy recipe.
Generally, it is difficult to turn the leftover rice delicious. But with this simple recipe, even a left over rice becomes tastier. As this mouthwatering dish is prepared without deep frying, it is healthy too.
This toothsome dish is prepared with left over rice/cooked Rice, Creamy cheese, Bread slices, Potatoes, Green peas, Carrots, Onions, Garam masala powder, Red Chilli powder and Mango powder. Here is the simple recipe of it.
Cheesy Rice burst/ balls (Without deep Fry)

It is a delicious Appetizer/Snack/Main dish
Cooking time:
For cooking vegetables: 10 – 12 minutes
For preparing Cheesy Rice burst: 5-7 minutes for cooking Cheesy rice burst. 7-8 Rice burst can be prepared at the same time (It depends upon the size of the Appe/Kuzhi paniyaram pan)
Yields: 14- 16 medium sized Cheesy Rice burst
Ingredients
1 tbsp = 15 ml
1 spoon = 10 ml
1 tsp = 5 ml
1 coffee spoon = 2.5 ml
- Big sized Potato –2
- Green peas – 1 ½ tbsp
- Cooked rice – 1 cup (1 cup = 450 ml)
- Medium sized Onions – 2 (finely chopped)
- Garam masala powder – (1 – 1 ¼) tsp
- Cooking oil – required
- Red Chilli powder – (1 -1 ¼) tsp
- Mango powder – slightly less than ¼ tsp
- Medium sized Carrots – 2 (finely chopped)
- Bread/Whole wheat bread slices – 4 +3 (crumbled for dusting)
- Creamy Cheese – 1 ½ spoon
Method
- Toast the Bread slices with little cooking Oil until it becomes crisper in a Dosa tawa (or use bread toaster to toast the Bread slices) at medium flame. Switch off the flame.
- Cut the toasted Bread slices into small pieces and grind it to a coarse powder. Bread crumbs are ready to use.
- Cook the whole peeled Potatoes, chopped Carrots, Onions and Green peas with Garam masala powder, Mango powder, required salt and Water (1 Cup, (1 cup = 300ml)) in a pressure cooker for 5-7 whistles (I have used stainless steel 5 litre pressure cooker and cooked for 7 whistles). Switch off the flame.
- Mash the cooked Vegetables and Cooked rice. Rice mixture is ready.
- Add Red Chilli powder, required Salt and prepared bread crumbs (half the quantity of prepared Bread crumbs) to the Rice mixture and mix it well.
- Make equal sized balls with the prepared mixture.
- Make a dent in each ball and pour little creamy cheese in it. Close/Cover it and make it as a ball again. Rice balls are ready.
- Spread the remaining quantity of prepared Bread crumbs on a plate.
- To make the Rice balls crisper, roll it over the spread bread crumbs. Rice balls are ready to cook.
- Grease the Appe/Kuzhi paniyaram pan with little Cooking oil and place the Rice balls in the crater of the Appe pan (Use little Cooking oil for roasting the Rice balls).
- Cook the Rice balls until it gets roasted well on all its sides (Use Appe/Kuzhi paniyaram pan Spatula to turn the Rice balls). Switch off the flame. Cheesy Rice burst is ready to serve.
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