Categories: ricette

by patrizio_eccechina

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Ingredients

  • For the tomato rice:

  • 300 g rice
  • 1 onion
  • Extra Virgin Olive Oil to taste
  • San Marzano tomatoes from Agro Sarnese-Nocerino PDO 7/8
  • Basil to taste
  • 600 g vegetable broth
  • Salt to taste
  • 50 g grated Parmigiano Reggiano PDO
  • 20 g butter
  • White wine to taste
  • Olives to taste
  • For the breading:

  • 200 g 00 flour
  • 3 eggs
  • Breadcrumbs to taste

Preparation

Thinly slice the onion and sauté in a saucepan with Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Add the washed and chopped tomatoes, lightly salt, and cook until soft. Add the basil at the end of cooking, blend, and strain to obtain a smooth sauce. Toast the rice dry after lightly salting it, deglaze with white wine, and let evaporate. Add the tomato sauce and gradually add hot broth until cooked. Remove from heat and stir in butter and Parmigiano Reggiano DOP, then let cool completely. Form into balls, coat in flour, egg, and breadcrumbs, repeating the egg and breadcrumb coating for a double breading. Fry in hot Extra Virgin Olive Oil until golden. Serve the croquettes hot, placed on chopped olives dressed with Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Oil and flavor: perfect pairings for your recipes

To complete this Mediterranean and enveloping flavored preparation, a Valle del Belice PDO Extra Virgin Olive Oil was chosen, obtained mainly from the Nocellara del Belice cultivar (Sicily). Its medium-intense fruity profile, rich in herbaceous, tomato, and almond notes, perfectly accompanies the sweetness of the tomato and the fragrance of the basil. The medium-high spiciness and light bitterness balance the frying and give depth to every bite.