Arancini - rice balls with meat filling

This is an Italian recipe for delicious rice balls with meat filling. In Italian, "arancini" is very consonant with the Italian name of oranges. Small rice balls with all kinds of fillings really look like red citrus fruits, although sometimes arancini are molded and cone-shaped. And blinded - baked or fried, not forgetting and pan in breadcrumbs. It is not difficult to cook this dish, but you will have to tinker. But how delicious!

Natusik

Recipe author

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Rice mass:

Round rice

300

Chicken eggs

Butter

Hard cheese

100

Filling:

Minced meat

300

Onion

Hard cheese

100

Sugar

Greenery (parsley)

to taste

Salt

to taste

Ground black pepper

to taste

Tomato paste

Breading:

Wheat flour

150

Chicken eggs

Breadcrumbs

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 20 % 12 g

Fats 25 % 15 g

Carbohydrates 55 % 33 g

306 kcal

GI: 3 / 42 / 55

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 h

Step 1:
For the filling, cut the onion into cubes and fry in oil for 5 minutes. Add minced meat to the onion, pour in water and bring to a boil, constantly kneading the lumps of minced meat. Season with salt and pepper, add sugar and tomato paste. Stir and cook over medium heat for 20 minutes. Put parsley in a frying pan with meat and warm it up for another minute. Then remove from heat and mix with grated cheese.
Step 2:
Boil the rice until tender, mix with butter and grated cheese. Add the beaten egg and mix well.
Step 3:
With your hands soaked in water, take a mound of rice and knead it in the palm of your hand. Put a spoonful of meat filling in the middle of the tortilla. To form a ball. Repeat with all the rice and stuffing.
Step 4:
Beat the remaining eggs with a pinch of salt. Roll the arachini in flour, then in egg and breadcrumbs.
Step 5:
Fry in hot oil for 5-7 minutes (turning) until golden brown. The oil should cover the arancini by more than half.
Step 6:
Arancini are ready! Bon appetit!

Important! To make rice dishes invariably delicious, read the article about the subtleties of choosing rice and the secrets of its preparation .

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

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