Ingredients for the rice balls<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- 1 and 1\/2 cup of arborio\/paella rice<\/li>
- 3 cups of boiling water<\/li>
- half onion chopped + splash of olive oil<\/li>
- pinch of sea salt<\/li>
- knob of butter<\/li>
- 1 tsp of tumeric<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Process<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Fry the onion with the oil in a deep pan until soft<\/li>
- Add the rice and mix all together for a minute<\/li>
- Add the boiling water, salt, butter and tumeric<\/li>
- Cook at middle temperature and stir often<\/li>
- Once all liquid is absorbed, spread the rice in a tray to cool down.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Ingredients for the filling<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- 500g of washed spinachs<\/li>
- half onion chopped + splash of olive oil<\/li>
- 1 garlic clove<\/li>
- splash of milk<\/li>
- 1 big tsp flour<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Process<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Fry the onion with the olive oil until soft.<\/li>
- Add the garlic and fry until golden<\/li>
- Add the spinach. They will reduce quite a lot.<\/li>
- Stir often and once the spinach are like a paste, add the milk and flour<\/li>
- Remove from heat and let it cool down<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Frying the rice balls<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ingredients<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- 2 eggs<\/li>
- Breadcrumbs<\/li>
- sunflower oil (never through olive in the sink please!)<\/li>
- Cheese<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Process<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Heat up a deep pan with the sunflower oil.<\/li>
- have a plate with the breadcrumbs and another with the mixed eggs<\/li>
- For making the balls, as per videos, wet your hands, make a decent ball, and make a hole with a finger.<\/li>
- Fill the hole with the cheese and spinach.<\/li>
- Cover the ball with a bit more rice and follow the technique to shape it like an egg<\/li>
- Pass the ball by the egg, then breadcrumbs and finally into the hot oil.<\/li>
- Fry until golden<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
This is my result:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nVeredict:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be honest, they look as I remembered but my spinach filling wasnt as great as the ones I tried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think I need to use mozarella cheese and add something else to the spinach mix (salt? nutmeg?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next time I will try to find the Arancini recipe with spinach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As usual, with practice, comes mastery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will try again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometime ago I tried these typical Italian rice bowls and like them. So I wanted to give it a go one day. The ones I tried had spinach and cheese inside. I quick search showed me videos for arancini but with meat. It looks good but wanted to try the spinach version so I went … Continue reading “Arancini”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}