At Easter I made arancine, a typical Sicilian dish, not quite as immediate preparation time, but absolutely delicious and tasty. The arancine now are a bit 'all over, but those made in the traditional Sicilian recipe is beyond any comparison. The filling, in this case, it may be changed more or less at will, even if the classical arancina is the one with meat sauce, mozzarella cheese (provolone or fresh) and peas. Maybe later on I show its skills with those of spinach and ricotta ...
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of rice Arborio
- 5 egg yolks 4 egg whites
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- 100 g Parmesan cheese 100 g butter
- nutmeg 250 g of tomato sauce
- 200 g of peas 1 packet of saffron
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- onion oil
- breadcrumbs
rice for 16-17 minutes in salted water. Drain and season with the Parmesan cheese, butter, 4 egg yolks and saffron. Let cool for a day. Then prepare the sauce by putting the stuffing in a casserole 500 g of minced meat, making it brown with a little 'butter, olive oil, black pepper and onion. When the meat starts to brown, add the tomato puree and cook over low heat for an hour. Then cook the peas, place in a saucepan a bit 'of oil, a bit' onion and peas, also frozen, and let them cook about 15 minutes.
arancine to shape, use a pot of warm water you use to wet your hands. After esservele wet (this is repeated for each arancina) take the rice and modellatelo to obtain an internal cavity (you can help with a spoon) in which you are going to enter the meat sauce, peas and mozzarella. Do not add too much filling otherwise arancine, once fried, it will break. Always wet your hands, and close your rice with the other "half arancina," trying to give it texture modeling it with your hands. Usually the final shape is spherical or cone. Once ready, pass the arancine in 1 egg yolk and 4 egg whites (beaten previously) and then in bread crumbs. Then fill a large pot with about 3 liters of oil seeds and let it warm up. The cook must arancine letteralmene submerged oil. When the oil is hot, dip arancine 3-4 at a time, lower the heat and cook for about ten minutes, remembering to move them frequently so they do not burn in cointatto with the pot. Once they are golden brown, remove and let them dry on paper towels. Serve hot, even if they are also delicious the next day.