Ham croquetas
 
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Delicious ham croquettas with walnut sauce
Recipe type: Tapas
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients
For the Croquetas
  • 65g butter
  • 1 cup plain white flour
  • 400ml milk
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 clove garlic
  • ½ tsp whole black peppercorns
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp white pepper
  • pinch of nutmeg
  • handful of fresh parsley chopped
  • handful of serrano ham, thinly chopped
  • ½ cup fresh breadcrumbs
  • 1 tbsp grated parmesan
To Fry the croquetas
  • 1 cup plain flour
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1 cup fine breadcrumbs
  • Oil for frying
To Serve
Instructions
prepare the croquetas bechamel
  1. Melt the butter in a non stick pan
  2. Meanwhile add the milk to a glass jug along with the clove of garlic, bay leaf and peppercorns. Heat in the microwave for around 2 minutes to warm it up.
  3. Add the flour to the melted butter and combine (the flour will form clumps - Just continue to push and fry them around)
  4. Once you have fried the flour for 2 minutes and it smells "nutty" add the milk (through a sieve) a tiny bit at a time. Fry bechamel to make ham croquetas ham croquettes
  5. Stir into the flour until the milk has gone, then add some more.
  6. You have to blend the milk with the flour as much as you can everytime you add milk. This is so that no lumps remain. Fry bechamel to make ham croquetas ham croquettes
  7. It will take some time to slowly combine all milk and flour but once it starts goes smooth you know you are there.
  8. Stop when the bechamel has a thick, gloopy consistency. Fry bechamel to make ham croquetas ham croquettes
  9. Season with salt, white pepper and nutmeg. Turn off the heat and set aside.
  10. Add the ham, parsley, breadcrumbs and parmesan and mix it all together. Mix in the ham parsley and breadcrumbs to make the ham croquettas recipe ham croquettes
  11. Place into a bowl and put into the fridge to cool for a few hours or until needed.
Fry the croquetas
  1. Prepare a bowl each of the flour, beaten eggs adn breadcrumbs Prepare to fry the ham croquettes
  2. Take a small amount of the croquetas mixture (we use a spoon) and shape into a rough baton shape.
  3. Roll in flour then use a flat surface (e.g chopping board) to shape the croquetas into neat batons (once they are floured they are very easy to shape..you can also do them as balls)
  4. Prepare all of them with the flour and set aside. shape the ham croquettas ham croquettes recipe
  5. When ready to fry, preheat your oil (medium heat).
  6. Dip each croqueta into the egg, then the breadcrumbs then drop into the oil.
  7. They will only take a couple of minutes each fry the ham croquetas recipe for ham croquettes
Serve
  1. Serve hot with your choice of mayo, aioli or as we did walnut sauce
Recipe by MongolianKitchen.com at https://mongoliankitchen.com/ham-croquetas/