Sweet Corn and Rice Bites

Sweet Corn and Rice Bites

Sweet corn and rice bites makes a great side dish for rice or a starter or a tea time snack. Its crispy
outside and soft inside. very easy to make and am sure you will find all the ingredients for this anytime in the kitchen. There are no fancy ingredients going in here :P

Sweet corn and Rice bites Recipe
Sweet corn mashed - 2 cups (I used canned sweet corn)
All purpose flour / Maida - 8 tbsp
Butter - 4 tbsp
Milk - 2 cups
Rice - 2 cups (boiled)
Green Chilli - 1 (or 2 according to your taste)
Pepper powder - 3 tsp
Coriander leaves/ Cilantro - 1 cup chopped
Salt - to taste

To shallow fry
Oil - 3 tbsp
water - 1/2 cup
All purpose flour / Maida - 1 tbsp
Breadcrumbs - as required

Instructions
1. Heat butter in a pan
2. Add all purpose flour and give a nice mix
3, Add 1/2 cup milk at a time and give a good mix and do the same with rest of the milk. Stop adding milk when you get a medium consistency.(should be like a mashed potato)
4. Remove from heat and transfer it into a bowl.
5. Add green chilli, pepper powder, coriander leaves, rice and salt to the mashed sweet corn.
6. Mix them well until soft to make small balls or squares (any shape you wish).
7. In another bowl make a batter of water and all purpose flour with the ingredients mentioned under 'To shallow fry'
8. Dip the prepared sweetcorn balls first in the batter and then roll them in breadcrumbs.
9. Now it is ready to shallow fry in oil


Note: You can also deep fry or use a unniappam pan / Paniyaram pan to fry these.