Croquette

Croquette

by Food Love Letter

4.7 (1)
Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

15m

Serving

2

The Japanese favorite food "Coke cake", although it is as popular as takoyaki noodle balls, there is a big difference from takoyaki noodle balls. The croquette is not a traditional Japanese food, but an imported product from the West.
Its name is taken from the French word croquette. When Western food was introduced to Japan in the 16th century, it gradually began to be accepted by the Japanese people, and then it was a beloved delicacy.
The song "Eat croquette today, and croquette tomorrow" was once popular in Japan.
The original meaning of the song was that a newly married husband praised his wife's croquettes for being very delicious, but then the wife let her husband eat croquettes every day, which made her husband very disappointed.
Regardless of how disappointed the husband is, this song has become popular, and the croquettes have become popular even now.
The original method of croquette is to add minced vegetables and meat to a sauce made of cream and flour. After cooling, it is kneaded into a cylindrical shape, then spread with wheat flour, egg juice and bread flour, and deep-fried, which is the French home Cuisine-croquettes.
However, Japanese families have modified this exotic product into their own taste, using mashed potatoes, adding fried onions and minced meat, and then kneading them into a cylindrical shape and frying them.
Nowadays in Japan, although there are also delicacies from all over the world, the Japanese still regard snacks such as takoyaki noodle balls and croquette as essential foods in daily life.
Potatoes can be described as the soul of croquette. After steaming, the soft mashed potatoes with onion minced meat are coated in powder and fried in a frying pan until they are beautifully golden. The simple steps are simple and the flavor is simple. We can also make it at home. Make some improvements. For example, if you don’t want to deep-fry, you can change it to frying. The shape can be changed. You can replace the ingredients except potatoes. You can try all kinds of delicacies, such as seafood croquette (with some seafood such as squid), and sausage cola. Pie (with sausage and garlic crisp), curry chicken croquette (with curry, onion and chicken), pineapple shrimp ball croquette, pork croquette, etc. . You can inject creativity and enthusiasm to make various flavors of croquette~

Ingredients

Croquette

1. Wash and peel the potatoes, put them in a steamer and steam them over water. For faster steaming, I cut the potatoes into thick slices, and steam the potato slices or potatoes directly on the steamer until the potatoes are cooked through.

Croquette recipe

2. Take the steamed potatoes out and let them cool, and place them in the room to air-dry for about 2 hours before mashing them into puree. The reason for this is that the potatoes are still full of water after steaming, so let them air dry for two hours first, and wait until the water is less. Making croquette is more successful and more delicious, but in fact, the dried potatoes are not easy to be mashed, so you can do it at will. There is no problem in mashing directly without drying.

Croquette recipe

3. Chop the onion

Croquette recipe

4. Pour a little oil into the wok, heat it up, add the chopped onion and fry until it is fragrant. After the fry is soft, pour in the minced meat and continue to fry. After the minced meat changes color, add a little salt and add some black pepper to taste. Mix well. Can turn off the fire

Croquette recipe

5. Pour the fried onion minced meat into the mashed potatoes and mix well. The ratio of the filling to the mashed potatoes can be 1:1

Croquette recipe

6. Divide the mixed mashed potatoes into several portions and knead them into the shape you want, whether it is a cylinder, a round ball, or a round cake, and then wrap them in flour, egg liquid, and bread crumbs in turn, so that our The semi-finished croquette is ready

Croquette recipe

7. In the end, you only need to fry or fry until golden brown. The mashed potatoes and the ingredients inside are cooked, and you don’t need to deep-fry for too long. You only need to deep-fry the outer skin until crispy, so that it will be delicious. Pay attention to the heat when frying, and you can observe and flip frequently. If we do it more times, we will definitely make progress:) I think the food can be both delicious and beautiful~

Croquette recipe

Tips:

The croquette has the best flavor when it is freshly fried for 5 minutes. If you want to eat it after letting it cool, don't turn it back into the pan for frying. Just microwave it and bake it in the oven for a while.
The croquette is delicious without the sauce. If you have time, you might as well make a dipping sauce. It is made with a mixture of onion, pickles, salad dressing, white vinegar and sugar. The sweet and sour dipping sauce will make the croquette different. Style.

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