Leftovers are not supposed to be this good!
Srivalli made these wonderful rice parathas for the WBB Breakfast from Leftovers roundup. We knew as soon as we saw it that this would be a recipe we would like to try; a week or so later, we did indeed try it. And we absolutely loved it.
We did have a few challenges in trying to make it, the chief one being that I don't have cast-iron fingers. This meant that I wanted a batter that could be spread with the back of a spoon onto the hot tava, instead of pressed with my fingers. This meant adding water bit by bit until I got the right consistency. But making the batter that thin meant that the parathas lacked body, so I added a little baking powder to give it body and lightness.
Now it is all very well to fiddle once with a recipe; the big challenge is to see whether you can now follow your altered recipe from scratch and end up with satisfactory results. (In other words, the family was clamoring to have me make these again).
So this past weekend I did. And we loved the result. Since I am confessing here, I will tell you that first, we didn't have leftover rice, we made "leftover" rice; i.e. on Saturday night we cooked some rice with the express intent to use it on Sunday for these parathas! Second, I tripled the recipe, and there was barely enough to everyone's satisfaction.
What would I change? When I tripled the recipe, I didn't quite triple the onion. That was a mistake - the onion plays an important role in the taste of this dish, and you could even add more. If you like heat, you could also add sliced rings of green chilli to the batter.
Comments (11)
That looks lovely... What did you serve it with?
Posted by Laavanya | October 24, 2007 9:23 AM
It looks delicious. When i saw the pic first i thought it was a omelette. Then i saw in the recipe the ingredients :-) silly me
Posted by Happy Cook | October 24, 2007 9:24 AM
That is a lovely plate of food.
Posted by sunita | October 24, 2007 9:28 AM
this recipe reminds me of a dish i picked off tarla dalal's book - its called bhaath na poodla - a cutlet made out of leftover rice, wheat flour, besan and spices.
Posted by lakshmi | October 24, 2007 9:37 AM
looks good..i am amazed at how so many women here go ahead and pat dough/batter on hot tawa..i am still chicken about it!!
Posted by Rajitha | October 24, 2007 10:51 AM
Sivani, Your photos have warmth in 'em. I likey :)
Posted by Suganya | October 24, 2007 12:28 PM
Wow.. lovely pic Sivani..:D
Posted by Siri | October 24, 2007 6:47 PM
Sivani....thats a nice twist...and yes that looks more like an omlette..all fluffy and you take good shot of the dish..it looks very appetizing..
Posted by srivalli | October 24, 2007 10:32 PM
All your compliments might turn my head :-)
Thank you all so much.
I think perhaps the angle of the picture might be a bit misleading, because the parathas didn't seem that fluffy in real life; a bit more than regular paratha, but not so much as omelettes :-)
Posted by Sivani
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October 25, 2007 2:59 PM
So I wonder... How viable would a flour substitution be in this (a rice or chickpea or other flour for the AP wheat flour...
Experimentation may await.
Posted by Eric Sinclair
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October 28, 2007 8:25 AM
Hmm, Eric. It relies on the gluten to bind together the rice; if you were to use besan (chickpea flour), I think you might end up making rice tempura rather than "bread."
Rice flour with the leftover rice might be a bit too much of a good thing :-)
How about flax seed flour - can you eat that? I haven't tried making this with that, but it might be an option.
Posted by Sivani
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November 1, 2007 4:06 PM