I first tried it as a Tapas dish at a Spanish restaurant. For those who don't know what croquettes is, according to wikipedia:
A croquette is a small fried food roll containing usually as main ingredients mashed potatoes, and/or minced meat (veal, beef, chicken, or turkey), shellfish, fish, vegetables, and soaked white bread, egg, onion, spices and herbs, wine, milk, or any of the combination thereof, sometimes with a filling, often encased in breadcrumbs.
I did a potato & carrot filling. It's real easy to make actually. I googled for a recipe ;)
Ingredients
- 400 g potatoes
- 1/8 litre of milk
- 10 g butter
- a pinch of salt
- grated nutmeg
- one eggyolk
- 150 g flour
for the breading
- 1 egg
- breadcrumbs
1. Boil potato & carrot until soft. Then leave it for few minutes, but don't let them cool down. We only want excess water to evaporate.
2. Get your potato masher out. Add the salt, nutmeg and butter to the potatoes and start mashing. Slowly add milk and keep mashing the mixture until is is very smooth and creamy - and not too liquid! You want a fairly stiff potato mash.
3. Now add the egg yolk and keep mashing ... the mixture will turn sticky now, so slowly add the flour until the mixture is again firm and only slightly sticky.
4. Now form either balls or rolls of the mixture (that's entirely up to your personal taste) and put them on a wooden board. Let them sit in the fridge for half an hour.
* ( I just leave the whole mixture in fridge for few hours - the longer the better as it holds the mixture better & i didn't form the mixture beforehand, i did it after)
5. Pre-heat your deep fat frier. Now form your croquettes into whatever shape you want then first coat it in a whisked egg and then in the breadcrumbs. Then into the fryer for 2-3 mins.
Here is the result, Tadaa..
