Leftover Rice Recipes

I am a huge fan of cooking with leftovers. I always try to make extra rice or any other staple, so that I can use it to make something else later. The only exception here is pasta, where I just seem to eat it all no matter what. This post features 3 recipes for using the left over rice I made as a side to go with Mexican Lasagna along with the recipe for the "Spanish" Rice shown in the picture.

I made two dry cups of short brown rice in the rice cooker and set one cooked cup of it aside to make deliciously simple Breakfast Fried Rice, inspired by Elizabeth:
 

Breakfast Fried Rice
Serves 2

1 cup cooked brown rice
2 eggs
1 tsp vegetable oil
1 Tablespoon Soy Vay Teriyaki sauce

Fry the rice in in oil. You can either add the egg and fry it in with the rice or fry it separately and top your rice with it (both ways are really good). Add teriyaki sauce to the rice just enough to heat it up before serving. YUM.

"Spanish" Rice
Makes plenty - enough to eat now and have more for leftovers

2-3 cups cooked brown rice
1 Tablespoon olive oil
2 Tablespoons tomato paste
1 Tablespoon smoked paprika
1 clove garlic
Salt and pepper

Saute olive oil, garlic, and tomato paste in a large pan. Add rice and mix in. Season with salt and pepper.

Here's what I did with my leftover "Spanish" rice after serving 1 cup along side Mexican Lasagna.


Breakfast "Spanish" Rice
Serves 2
Very similar to Breakfast Fried Rice

1 cup spanish rice
1 tsp olive oil
2 eggs

Fry up rice in saute pan with oil on medium heat. Once it's heated through, make two indentations in the rice separate from each other and crack an egg into each. Top your pan and wait about 4 minutes for the egg to steam cook. Use a spatula to carefully transfer one egg rice hash to each plate. Enjoy!

 
Rice Fritters
Serves 2-4

1-2 Cups Spanish Rice
1 egg
1-2 Tablespoons Whole Wheat Flour
salt and pepper

Mix all the ingredients together. The flour binds the egg and makes it possible to fry the patties, but you can replace it with a gluten free flour. Once your ingredients are mixed together it should have the consistency of cookie dough. Heat your fry pan and put pam or oil it it. Spoon 2-3 Tablespoons of the mixture onto your pan and cook for 4 minutes on medium for 4 minutes a side. Enjoy!