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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Starters and Snacks => Topic started by: huilink on November 12, 2008, 10:59:01 pm
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Name of Recipe: Spanish Ham Croquetas
Number of People:4
Ingredients:
150g serrano ham, regular ham or cooked chicken
2 hard boiled eggs (optional)
50g extra virgin olive oil
100g butter
30g onion
170g flour
400g milk
Grated nutmeg, black pepper and salt to taste
Preparation:
1. Chop the ham (or chosen meat) with 5 bursts of Turbo. Remove and reserve.
2. Chop hard boiled eggs, 2 sec/ speed 4. Remove and reserve.
3. Put in olive oil, butter, onion and program 3 minutes, 100ºC, speed 2 1/2.
4. Incorporate the rest of the ingredients, except the ham and eggs. Mix 10 sec/ speed 6. Add in 2 tablespoons of the chopped ham and program 7 min/Varoma/Speed 4. When the machine stops, let the mixture stand for 5 mins. Add in the rest of the ham and eggs and mix well with the spatula. Add salt to taste.
5. Pour mixture into a bowl, let it cool down and leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours or overnight. Shape into oval balls and deep fry just before serving. If you prefer a thicker crust, you may dip it in beaten egg mixture and coat it with breadcrumbs before frying.
Tips/Hints:
This is a very popular tapas dish and keeps very well in the freezer. Worth making it in large batches.
Adapted and translated from Thermomix - Imprescindible para su cocina.
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Gracias, I love croquettas with their creamy centre and crisp, crunchy covering.
A great nibble for Christmas, and more importantly after Christmas when there is always leftover ham.
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Thanks for this one.
As previously mentioned - a great post Christmas recipe. My kids are always heartily sick of ham by New years!! :D
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Tried this one today dipped in Panko breadcrumbs for a crisper finish. Only cooked what we needed and froze the rest before crumbing. It made 24 croquettes as large as a medium sized egg but for nibbles for parties you could make them into bite sized round balls and would probably get 5-6 dozen. They are very rich with all that oil and butter and not normally something I would have because of the fat content and then deep frying as well - can't remember when I last deep fried anything! They were nice though and as other members have said, nice for using up some of the leftover ham from Christmas. This size was obviously easier to do but I think I would prefer them smaller and served with other lighter, healthier nibbles or salad.