California Farm Fried Rice Ball Snacks

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
California, United States

This is a fool proof recipe to make 3 different types of fried rice balls from cold cooked rice that can go well with 6 different cooked fillings, egg, chicken, tofu, pork or lamb, beef, or fish, eighteen different snack flavors.
You can use a frying pan or wok to crisp the riceballs and reuse the oil. The crust is plain or flavored with a mild or spicy sweet pepper sauce. To make sixteen egg size balls, you only need one cup of rice.

The mild gochujang pepper sauce stays delicious when reheated.

California Farm Fried Rice Ball Snacks

This is a fool proof recipe to make 3 different types of fried rice balls from cold cooked rice that can go well with 6 different cooked fillings, egg, chicken, tofu, pork or lamb, beef, or fish, eighteen different snack flavors.
You can use a frying pan or wok to crisp the riceballs and reuse the oil. The crust is plain or flavored with a mild or spicy sweet pepper sauce. To make sixteen egg size balls, you only need one cup of rice.

The mild gochujang pepper sauce stays delicious when reheated.

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Ingredients

15 with cooked rice, 75 min with dry, 15 min fry
2 people, 16 balls
  1. Make perfect rice
  2. 1 cupdry rice to make 2 cups cooked rice
  3. 1/4 Tspturmeric
  4. 1 Tspsweet soy sauce
  5. 1 tbsdry shredded coconut
  6. 2 cupscold water
  7. Fry rice with flavorings
  8. 2 cupsfluffy cold cooked rice, 32 tablespoons
  9. 1-3 Tbspeanut oil
  10. 16heaping teaspoons, your choice of cooked or baked filling, shredded chicken, shredded beef, shredded lamb, shredded pork, or ground, flaked fish, diced tofu or diced omelette
  11. 1 Tsponion powder
  12. 1 Tspgarlic powder
  13. 1large fresh farm egg, mixed
  14. Fry riceballs
  15. Enough oil to float riceballs
  16. Make the mild glaze, one cup, for 16 balls:
  17. 3 TbsGochujang paste
  18. 1/2 cupRice vinegar
  19. 1/2 cupsoy sauce
  20. 1/2 cupBrown sugar
  21. 1 TbsCorn starch
  22. 1 Tbsginger powder
  23. Make the spicy glaze, one cup, for 16 balls:
  24. 3 TbsSambal oelek pepper paste
  25. 1/2 cupRice vinegar
  26. 1/2 cupSweet thick soy sauce
  27. 1 TbsCorn starch
  28. 1 Tbsginger powder
  29. Equipment: saucepan with lid, wok, oil filter and funnel
  30. Cost: rice 10 cents, filling 40 cents, sauce 40 cents, other 20 cents, oil 50 cents, per riceball ten cents

Cooking Instructions

15 with cooked rice, 75 min with dry, 15 min fry
  1. 1

    Cook the rice. In saucepan, add shredded coconut, soy sauce and turmeric with dry rice, cover with cold water, stir once, bring to rolling boil, turn heat off, lid on, steep one hour. Rice will be perfect, creamy, fluffy and cooled. Wipe saucepan clean.

  2. 2

    Medium Heat onion powder and garlic powder in bottom of oil in skillet or wok, stirfry cooked rice with 16 Tsp filling of precooked choice like ground beef till fragrant, and crust develops. Cool. When cooled, stir enough beaten egg through the mix till sticky. Wipe skillet or wok clean.

  3. 3

    Make about 16 egg size rice balls, press rice together to make solid balls. Roll balls through bread crumbs.

  4. 4

    Heat enough oil so that rice balls float, 350F degrees, deepfry 4 at a time, few minutes each side till golden. Filter oil for reuse. Drain rice balls on paper towel.

  5. 5

    Make a teaspoon of glaze per riceball, one cup for 16 balls. In saucepan, dissolve pepper paste in rice vinegar, add sugar, add soy, add ginger, add cornstarch, stir, bring to boil, simmer till thick glaze. Brush top of each riceball with pepper glaze. Serve warm or cold. Extra gochujang glaze can be used for dipping. Enjoy.

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Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
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California, United States
I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. My grandparents and parents taught me growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.
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