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Great recipe for Arancini ai formaggi - deep-fried, risotto balls with melting cheese middle. Arancini (means "little oranges") and describes my favourite street food in my native Sicily. Arancini are deep-fried risotto balls with a melting middle of some type of sauce and stringy cheese.
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The ingredients needed to make Arancini ai formaggi - deep-fried, risotto balls with melting cheese middle:
- Prepare 300 g Arborio rice
- Make ready 200 g mix of mozzarella and pecorino cheese, cubed
- Make ready 50 g grated Parmesan
- Take 2 beaten eggs
- Make ready Plain flour
- Make ready Breadcrumbs - Panko are good
- Get Rapeseed oil for frying
- Get 50 g butter cubed
- Take Salt & Pepper
- Prepare Pinch English mustard powder
Arancini (means "little oranges") and describes my favourite street food in my native Sicily. Arancini are deep-fried risotto balls with a melting middle of some type of sauce and stringy cheese. Often sold from takeaway places, arancini are a portable meal much like the British Cornish pasty.. Shallow-fry the arancini patties, in batches if necessary, fairly gently until golden brown on the outside and piping hot in the centre.
Steps to make Arancini ai formaggi - deep-fried, risotto balls with melting cheese middle:
- Pre-heat oven to 220C Cook the rice in boiling water for 12 minutes until al dente. Do not stir as you would a risotto, as you want the starch to help keep the rice ‘sticky’. Drain the rice and leave to cool – spread flat on baking parchment on a baking tray. Mix the mozzarella, mustard powder, Parmesan and pepper.
- Divide rice into 8 equal-sized amounts. Keep a bowl of water nearby and wet your hands. Take a bit of rice and mould it in the cup of your other hand (about 2cm thick). Place some of the cheese mix and one cube of butter in the centre and close your hand to make a ball, filling in with extra rice as needed. Once all the filling is no longer exposed you can gently shape the ball. Repeat with the remaining rice until you have 8 balls / 16 canapé-sized balls.
- Season beaten eggs with salt and pepper and gently roll the ball first in seasoned flour, then in the egg wash. Next coat the balls in breadcrumbs.
- Heat oil to 170C and deep fry arancini in batches until golden. Warm in oven for 8-10 minutes to be sure you have a nice, gooey melting middle and serve immediately.
- When you feel confident you can experiment with all different combinations. In Pisa I saw amazing ones with squid ink risotto and prawn fillings
- Arancini con Asparagi e Porcini is a rich, satisfying vegetarian option made with wild mushrooms and asparagus. Fusion varieties are also possible: my Thai Prawn Arancini fused squid ink risotto with spicy Thai red curry filling served with a sweet chilli dipping sauce, it is delicious but would be heartily disapproved of in my home country!
- Il Ambassadore is a sweet Arancini made with a melting chocolate and hazelnut filling, like a Ferrero Rocher!
Remove from the heat and stir in the Parmesan cheese. Transfer the risotto to a bowl and allow to cool slightly. Stir the beaten egg into the risotto. In a small bowl, whisk together the remaining egg and milk with a fork. Today, we are headed to Southern Italy, and more specifically Sicily, for one of the most popular specialties of the region called arancini, and more particularly the arancini al burro version.
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