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Leftover Rice adai is a perfect evening tiffin or a after-school snack for kids. Most of time we have idli/dosa batter handy to make quick evening tiffin for kids. But at times we would ran out of batter. With the leftover rice, we can make many delicious snacks/light tiffin. One such scrumptious recipe is this leftover rice adai. Conventionally for Adai we usually make with parboiled rice along with mixed dals. We need to soak rice and dals and then grind it to batter, the batter is then made into adai. But this leftover rice adai is very simple and quick to make. We don't need to soak any dals. Very instant and yet so scrumptious. Relish this adai with chutney or ketchup!

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Tips for making Leftover Rice Adai:

Leftover rice should be mashed nicely either with hand or with a blender. Mashing rice helps to bind all the ingredients together.
Besan is also a binding agent in this recipe. It helps to hold the rice and other ingredients together and also gives a nice crispy texture.
Instead of chopped green chili, we can add red chili powder.
While shaping the adai, use a parchment paper or zipper or banana leaf. For zipper or banana leaf, grease the leaf/zipper with oil and then try spreading the adai mixture.
If you have cast iron tawa, then that would be the right choice for the adai. Cast iron tawa speed up the cooking and also gives a golden color crispy texture to the adai.

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Recipe Card for Leftover Rice Adai | Adai with Leftover Rice | Crispy Rice Patties:

INSTRUCTIONS WITH STEP BY STEP PICTURES:

PREPARING ADAI MIXTURE

Take the leftover rice in a mixing bowl. With a ladle or clean hands mash the rice thoroughly. You can also grind the rice to a coarse paste in a mixer grinder.

To this mashed rice, add finely chopped onion, besan, green chili and ginger along with cumin seeds, grated coconut, turmeric powder, salt. coriander leaves and curry leaves.

Mix everything thoroughly so it becomes a thick mixture.

MAKING RICE PATTIES

Grease your fingers and palms with oil. Take big lemon size adai mixture and place it on a zipper cover or a parchment paper or banana leaf. Pat and spread it to a 4-5" diameter patties.