Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easy rice croquettes (arancini). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Having grown up in an Italian family, arancini balls were a typical dinner dish. They are breaded, fried balls of rice and cheese. Some people add different ingredients to arancini balls, for instance, my aunt added peas which I was not a fan of.
Easy Rice Croquettes (Arancini) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Easy Rice Croquettes (Arancini) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy rice croquettes (arancini) using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Rice Croquettes (Arancini):
- Get 700 grams Cooked rice
- Get 1 dash Saffron
- Make ready 30 grams Parmesan cheese
- Get 10 grams Butter
- Get 1/2 tsp Salt
- Take 8 tbsp Meat sauce
- Take 1 Panko (as needed)
- Make ready 1 egg Beaten egg
- Prepare 1 Vegetable oil (as needed)
Melt the butter in a large pan over medium heat, add the onion and celery and saute until tender and soft. Arancini, rice balls stuffed with sauce and peas, are one of the best-loved Sicilian snacks and street foods, and they have become increasingly popular throughout Italy and worldwide. The filling in this recipe is one of the most classic—a meat ragù , green peas, and melty mozzarella, but there are endless other types of fillings including. I have long been a lover of arancini, but I hate deep-frying foods.
Steps to make Easy Rice Croquettes (Arancini):
- As usual, cook the rice in a rice cooker.
- Add butter, parmesan cheese, and salt into the rice and mix lightly.
- Mix the egg yolks and saffron together, then add them to the rice. Mix everything together well.
- Transfer the mixed rice into a flat dish and let it cool down.
- Using 1 heaping tablespoon's worth of meat sauce as the filling, tightly roll up the rice just like you're making rice balls. Here's the link to the meat sauce recipe
- Dredge the rice balls with beaten eggs and panko.
- Deep-fry in 180℃ oil until golden brown. Place them gently into the oil to avoid any spitting.
- Drain the oil well and serve.
Not just because of the health factors, I just really hate waste, and I feel like too much oil is wasted when foods are deep-fried. So I decided to make some cheesy rice balls, otherwise known as arancini, different from the way I have had it before - I baked it. The goal is melty, gooey cheese mingling with creamy rice, not sizzling cheese in the cooking oil. Once formed, it is time to coat the risotto rounds for frying to a rich mahogany brown color with crunchy crust. Roll the balls of rice in flour and then in the whisked egg whites.
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