One day after school, I came home to my mom preparing some stuff. The house smelt like curry, so I thought she was making samosas…score I thought!
Turned out she was making croquettes. Apparently she made these all the time when I was younger, but I don’t remember.
A croquette is a mixture of mashed potatoes, meat, and spices, rolled in breadcrumbs and fried. You can understand why from the curry smell I thought she was making samosas. Speaking of samosas I haven’t had any in a while but I’m going offtopic….
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.[1] The croquette is usually shaped into a cylinder or disk, and then deep-fried. The croquette (from the French croquer, “to crunch”) was a French invention that gained world-wide popularity, both as a delicacy and as a fast food.
She was making some for a potluck, so I helped her fry them while she finished dipping them in egg and breadcrumbs.
You can see the bits of ground beef inside, mixed among the mashed potatoes.
All laid out pretty for the potluck later.
Ingredients:
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6 medium potatoes
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3 tbs milk
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1/2 lb ground beef
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1 onion, finely chopped
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3 tablespoon milk
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salt & pepper
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2 egg yolks
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oil
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flour and breadcrumb for coating
Preparation:
Peel potatoes and boil until soft. Drain and mash potatoes while they are hot, slowly add milk.
Saute onions and beef, season with salt and pepper (and a little curry if you want) in a medium skillet.
Mix potatoes, onion and beef in a bowl and let it cool.
Shape into flat and oval-shaped patties, dip into egg and coat with flour and breacrumb mixture.
Fry till golden brown.
