baked by pocketmouse

baked

I'm not sure what they're called, but it's an old Italian recipe. You mix boiled rice, milk and flour, with a touch of orange zest (but you can use lime or lemon if you prefer). You roll the mixture up into these log shapes, fry them, then roll them in sugar.

I took about 93873894 pseudomacro pictures of a light-pink rose, and 3 pictures of these things, and somehow these things ended up being the winner. I guess they captured the day better (I usually attempt cooking when procrastinating).



Recipe:
1. Boil 1 cup of rice, until rice is soft. Drain and leave aside to cool (until rice is warm enough to touch - not too cool!).
2. Add the rice, 2 cups of self-raising flour and 1/2 a cup of milk into a mixing bowl.
3. Add the grated zest of 1 orange (or lemon or lime).
4. Mix ingredients by hand (you may need to add more milk if mixture is too dry).
5. Preheat 3cm of vegetable/canola oil in a pan (I used an electric frypan).
6. Take a handful of mixture and place on a chopping board. Flatten it out by hand on the board to ~2cm thick, ~10cm across, and as long as your chopping board allows, so it forms a rectangle.
7. Using a pallet (or any) knife, cut a 2cm-wide piece off the end of the rectangle, and slowly and carefully roll it into the pan.
8. Fry logs until golden brown. Leave aside to cool and drain of oil, then roll in sugar.

Note: for a gluten-free recipe, use gluten-free self-raising flour. You may need to add a touch of baking powder, as well as extra milk since gluten-free flour tends to make the mixture drier and denser.
They look delicious... could you post the recipe??
May 8th, 2010  
Recipe posted :D
May 8th, 2010  
yummy.. they look really good
May 8th, 2010  
mmmm im hungry now
May 8th, 2010  
Bia
Very good shot! And yummy looking!
May 8th, 2010  
Thanks for the recipe - I'm definitely going to give it a try!
May 8th, 2010  
I hate when I take so many shots like that. I've done that 3 days so far, and 2 out of those 3 times, the FIRST picture I took ended up being the best one to use, lol.
May 8th, 2010  
That looks extremely delicious. And artistic. Mmm, tasty art. That's the best kind!
May 8th, 2010  
Lol, we both posted easy food today. Now I really want to try those... Maybe I'll make them for Mother's Day tomorrow.
May 8th, 2010  
Whatever it is, it looks yummy! Nice dof as well.
May 8th, 2010  
I'm going to follow you, if that's alright. I'm from Bloop!
May 9th, 2010  
Yum yum yum!!!
May 9th, 2010  
these sund and look sooooo good.....Ive been thinking about them all day since seeing your shot this morning....lol....I may just need to attempt to cook them!!
May 9th, 2010  
*sounds*.....not sund
i think im dyslexic
May 9th, 2010  
Pam
Ooh, I'm gonna have to make some!!
May 9th, 2010  
Oh I've had these before! I think they're called like churros here or something. I just think they're shaped differently. I'll have to look.
May 9th, 2010  
yeah I googled it, definitely a churro. But I think that's the Mexican name for it. Considering I always got them from this Mexican vendor thingy back in the day.
May 9th, 2010  
and to add a third comment. Google translate says Churro = frittella in italian.
May 9th, 2010  
mmm...looks so yummy!
May 9th, 2010  
No, it's definitely not a churro. Churros don't have rice in them!
May 10th, 2010  
They look yum! :D

Google Translate has no idea :P
May 10th, 2010  
YUM!
I am slightly inclined to roll them in cinnamon sugar.
And that I shall!
Thanks :)
May 24th, 2010  
look so tasty... I had fun looking back through your photos... nice project you have here...
December 29th, 2010  
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