Croquettes
Get the Croquette recipe by Chef Zarnak Sidhwa. Croquette is a breadcrumbed fried roll with various kinds of filling stuff. Main ingredients used in croquettes are mashed potatoes, ground or minced meat, vegetables or sauces.
Ingredients
1/4 cup butter
2 cups cooked chicken
1 tablespoon parsley
1 egg
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon onion chopped
1/4 cup dry breadcrumbs
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup flour
salt and pepper (to taste)
How to make Croquettes
Method
Melt butter in saucepan over low heat.
Blend in flour, salt and pepper. cook over low heat, stirring until mixture is smooth and bubbly.remove from heat. stir in milk.heat to boiling, stirring constantly.
Boil and stir 1 minute. prepare thick white sauce. stir in meat, 1 tablespoon minced onion and the parsley.
Season with salt and pepper. spread mixture in ungreased square pan, 8x8x2 inches but you want to use a shallow pan to the mixture can completely cool to make it easier to handle.
Cover and chill at least 2 hours. mix egg and water. shape croquettes and dip in egg, and then breadcrumbs
to cover.
Chill again. heat oil and fry croquettes for 2 minutes or until light brown.
Drain and keep warm until serving time.
Croquette is a famous bakery snack, usually enjoy at tea time. It is also served for guests and at special events. Croquettes are served with additional condiments such as pepper, chutney, raita or ketchup. You can make it more delicious by using tastier fillings inside. Use chicken, spiced vegetables or mashed spiced potatoes to make it richer in taste.
If your taste sense has not yet met the hot spicy croquettes, you are missing a lot. Try different croquettes and everyone of them would beat each other in taste.
This Croquette recipe belongs to famous Chef Zarnak Sidhwa of Pakistan. She used chicken for the filling. Let's try this one first. You can serve different types of croquettes with Iftar; try a different filling everyday.
Posted By:
maira iqbal, London