Rice Ball recipe

I miss Melillo's on East Market. Most of all, I miss their Rice Ball appetizer. I have tried to find a similar recipe online, but none have seemed to match up quite right. Anyone have a vegetarian-friendly rice ball recipe to share?

here is the Melillo's recipe from the Secrets of Louisville Chef's recipe pages:

http://louisvillehomezone.com/recipedetail.php?theme=recipes&id=37

i have made these - labor intensive, but wonderful!

mine is written in italian with grams for measuring and i can't translate grams.

Annemarie-
Maybe Santa will bring you a kitchen scale for Christmas.
'Winger

[Robin Garr]

mine is written in italian with grams for measuring and i can't translate grams.

Send it over if you want me to take a shot at it. You can send me the Italian one or throw in your English translation too if you want to backstop me.

Send to rgarr@louisvillehotbytes.com ...

Here's a handy converter for grams to ounces ( and vice versa):

http://www.unitconversion.org/unit_converter/weight.html

Deb

[Robin Garr]

Here's a handy converter for grams to ounces ( and vice versa):

http://www.unitconversion.org/unit_converter/weight.html

It gets a little complicated when you start thinking about converting fluid ounces, though, Deb. You can't really use a straighforward 1 ounce = 28.5 grams for anything but water and other liquids with similar specific gravity. The difference may not be much save for very lightweight or very dense foods, but some tweaking is sometimes necessary.

here is the Melillo's recipe from the Secrets of Louisville Chef's recipe pages:

http://louisvillehomezone.com/recipedetail.php?theme=recipes&id=37

Thanks for posting the link. After having been told otherwise by staff at the restaurant, its disappointing to know that the rice balls were not actually vegetarian.