These spinach and parmesan croquettes They are a great tender and juicy snack that serves as a starter or a good accompaniment to other dishes.
Croquettes are a traditional dish, one of the grandmother's, only this one has its own own special touch provided by Parmesan cheese, turning a traditional dish into something different and exquisite.
Ingredients:
For the croquettes:
- 250 gr. of spinach.
- 60 gr. grated Parmesan cheese.
- 1/2 onion.
- 4 tablespoons of all-purpose flour.
- 500 ml. milk.
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil.
- 1 pinch of ground nutmeg.
- 1 pinch of ground black pepper.
- Salt to taste.
To batter:
- Bread crumbs.
- 1 egg.
- Plentiful oil for frying.
Preparation of the spinach croquettes:
We can use so much fresh spinach as well as frozen. If we use them fresh, we wash them well and cook them in boiling water for 5 minutes. If they are frozen, just put them in the microwave a little to defrost them. Later we will drain them and cut them with a knife.
Peel and chop the onion very small. Heat four tablespoons of olive oil in a pan and add the onion. When it becomes transparent, that is be poche, we add the spinach.
We give a few turns and add the grated Parmesan cheese and the flour. We sauté for about 5 minutes without stopping to stir.
Add the milk little by little to avoid the formation of lumps and constantly stirring. We will start by adding a glass of milk, together with the nutmeg, pepper and salt to taste. The rest of the milk will be added little by little as it thickens.
We remove the pan from the heat and we keep the dough in the fridge, in a covered container so that it does not dry out, until cool.
We prepare a deep plate with I beaten egg and another deep plate with bread crumbs. We take the dough out of the fridge, we take pinches and we shape them into a croquette with our hands. We pass the croquettes first through the beaten egg and then through the breadcrumbs to coat them.
We heat a frying pan with plenty of oil. When this very hotWe are frying the croquettes until golden brown.
Remove the vegetable croquettes with a slotted spoon and place them on absorbent paper before serving.