Easy Rice Croquettes (Arancini)
Easy Rice Croquettes (Arancini)

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, easy rice croquettes (arancini). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will 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 well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Easy Rice Croquettes (Arancini) is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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):
  1. Make ready 700 grams Cooked rice
  2. Get 1 dash Saffron
  3. Get 30 grams Parmesan cheese
  4. Get 10 grams Butter
  5. Get 1/2 tsp Salt
  6. Get 8 tbsp Meat sauce
  7. Make ready 1 Panko (as needed)
  8. Take 1 egg Beaten egg
  9. Get 1 Vegetable oil (as needed)

Dip your hands into a bowl of water, then grab a handful of the rice and firmly press into a ball. Coat the rice balls in the remaining bread crumbs. 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.

Steps to make Easy Rice Croquettes (Arancini):
  1. As usual, cook the rice in a rice cooker.
  2. Add butter, parmesan cheese, and salt into the rice and mix lightly.
  3. Mix the egg yolks and saffron together, then add them to the rice. Mix everything together well.
  4. Transfer the mixed rice into a flat dish and let it cool down.
  5. 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
  6. Dredge the rice balls with beaten eggs and panko.
  7. Deep-fry in 180℃ oil until golden brown. Place them gently into the oil to avoid any spitting.
  8. Drain the oil well and serve.

Very good rice balls, actually, Minute ® Rice also comes in brown rice and a new multi-grain medley so more rice ball ex perimentation might be needed here. And just like that store is too dangerously close to my house, this recipe is too dangerously easy to make. I have long been a lover of arancini, but I hate deep-frying foods. 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.

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