Rissoles

A Rissole is a "patty" made from any minced ingredients mixed with seasoning and binder. The mixture is then pressed together into shapes, then coated and fried. They are made in many types of cooking, such as Turkish, Estonian, British, Italian, Australian, etc.

The main ingredients might be fish, seafood, meat, nuts, lentils, cheese, or mushrooms. The binder is usually egg and flour. The coating is usually flour or bread crumbs.

The shapes can be balls, flattened cakes, or egg-shaped. Mrs Beaton had a recipe for Potato Risoles that called for them to be rolled into small balls. In Australia, almost always made round. Generally, they are made thicker than hamburger patties.

In Australia, butchers sell ready-made meat ones shaped as patties, and Australians pay fry or bbq them at home.

In Rome, they make Rissoles out of rice, called "Suppli di riso alla romana." A rissoto is made with dried mushrooms in it, and set aside to cool while a tomato sauce is made with tomatoes, onion, chicken livers, and a small amount of chopped veal and proscuitto. They're assembled by pressing out a small amount of rice in your hand, putting a small cube of mozzarella cheese in the centre along with a small amount of the tomato sauce, then the rice is folded around it all to enclose it and moulded in the shape of an egg, then the "egg" is dipped in beaten egg, roled in dried breadcrumbs, then deep fried in olive or vegetable oil until golden brown. Served as a main course, you need to allow 2 to 3 to 4 depending on appetite, along with potato and veg, or fancier ones can be made to be used as appetizers.

Rissoles sometimes crack open when frying -- to help prevent this, people sometimes dip them in cold water before rolling them in their coating.
The word "Rissoles" comes from the French verb "rissoler", meaning "to brown", or possibly ultimately from the Latin adjective "russeolus", meaning "reddish-brown."

Also called:

Agneau au Beurre, Beef Stroganoff, Beef Wellington, Bistecca alla Fiorentina, Bouchées à la Périgourdine, Bouchées à la Reine, Burritos, Cantonese Pressed Duck, Carne Adovada, Carne Asada, Chicken Fried Steak, Chili con Carne, Chop Suey, Chopped Liver, Cincinnati Chili, Cornish Pasties, Coronation Chicken, Currywurst, Devils On Horseback, Duck à l'Orange, Empanadas, Enchiladas, Faggots, Floaters, Fricassée de Porc à la Genevoise, Fritto Misto, Garbage Plate, Golden Jubilee Chicken, Gremolata, Haggis, Hallacas, Irish Spiced Beef, Kibbeh Nayyeh, Kibbeh, Kitfo, Lincolnshire Stuffed Chine, Mock Duck, Morcon (Philipino), Northumbrian Duck, Ossobuco, Pâté Chinois, Pâté Râpé, Peking Duck, Pigs-in-a-Blanket, Pinnekjøtt, Polpettone di Fagiolini, Polpettone, Pot-En-Pot Acadien, Potato Haystack (Amish), Poume d'oranges, Pressed Duck, Pulled Pork, Quails à la Diane, Rissoles, Sausage Rolls, Shit on a Shingle, Sliders, Spiedies, Steak Diane, Steak Tartare, Sushi del Chianti, Tacos, Tamales, Tartarmad, Teriyaki, Tiger Meat, Tonkatsu, Tournedos Rossini, Turducken Roll, TV Dinners, Ulster Fry, White Collops, White Meat and Gravy, Wiener Schnitzel, Woodcock à la Diane, Xaccuti, Xiao Long Bao, XimXim, Yankee Pot Roast, Yosenabe

Boiled Dinners, Casseroles, Curry, Dan Dan Noodles, Darioles, Fish and Seafood Dishes, Fondue, Gallo Pinto, Pancakes, Pies & Tarts, Pizza, Porridge, Potato Dishes, Relish Trays, Salads, Sandwiches, Soups, Spring Rolls, Sunday Roast, Sushi, Timbales, Yakimono, Zakuska, Zakuska, Zakuska

Deep-Fried Foods, Desserts, Dumplings