Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, croquetas. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Croquetas is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Croquetas is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
These small, lightly breaded and fried bechamel fritters include delicious Spanish cured ham. They are a sure hit as an appetizer or an afternoon snack with a glass of beer or wine. Any visitor to Spain will have seen croquetas in Spanish restaurants served as a tapas.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have croquetas using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Croquetas:
- Prepare 200 grams chicken leftovers
- Get 150 grams jamón serrano
- Make ready 1 boiled egg (optional)
- Take 1 tbsp butter
- Prepare 1 pinch salt
- Get 1 pinch pepper
- Prepare 1 pinch numteg
- Take 1 egg (beated)
- Get 2 tbsp breadcrumbs
- Get 2 cup milk ( you may need more depending on how thick you like the bechamel)
- Take 3 tbsp all purpose flour
- Prepare 1 olive oil
The jamon serrano in this recipe could be replaced with chopped hard-boiled eggs, shredded salt cod, minced shrimp, chopped chorizo, cheese, or just about any vegetable. Croquetas de Jamon: Spanish Ham Croquettes. You've probably herd of croquettes: tasty, fried little bites that are often served as appetizers. Croquettes originated in France, where they feature a mashed potato center, but when croquettes traveled down to Spain, they became croquetas, and took on something a bit different.
Instructions to make Croquetas:
- chop the chicken, jamón and the boiled egg if used and mix them all
- in a sauce pan, melt the butter add half of the flour and some warm milk. Stirr constantly while adding the rest of the flour and milk until it thikens.
- Mix the bechamel you just made with the chicken-jamón mixture. Let it cool at least for 2h
- Using two spoons, make croquetas with the mixture.
- Deep them into the egg and then into the breadcrumbs.
- Fry them in olive oil. Once they are golden, let them cool in absorvent paper and serve.
Ham, cheese, salt cod and porcini croquetas. We have a range of Spanish frozen croquetas for you to buy online. See authoritative translations of Croqueta in English with example sentences, phrases and audio pronunciations. These croquetas remind me of home. They remind me of my childhood.
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