2 Crispy Waffle Maker Recipes: Rice Waffles & Potato Bites

Two savory recipes, one waffle maker, and a good use for yesterday’s starch: that is the whole idea behind this pair, which we cooked and filmed in a single video. One begins with plain cooked rice, the other with mashed potatoes, and both come out crisp at the edges and soft in the middle.

Start with the rice waffles if history appeals to you. The recipe was printed in the Picayune Creole Cookbook in 1910, so you are working from instructions that home cooks followed more than a century ago. The potato bites are the easier sell for a family table: small, crisp, and quick to disappear, they suit a snack plate as well as a side.

Neither dish asks for a shopping trip. If Sunday left you with a bowl of rice or a pan of mash, this is a sensible Monday plan, and the video shows both dishes back to back so you can judge which one your leftovers deserve.

Recipes in this video

The older sibling of the pair, lifted straight from a 1910 cookbook. Cook it first if you want proof that leftover rice deserves better than a second trip through the microwave.

Where the rice waffles lean historical, these are the snackable half of the set: the one to make when you want small, crisp pieces you can hand around without plates.

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