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Arancini

When life throws you leftover risotto, what do you do? Make Arancini.



Arancini is an Italian rice ball, made with risotto and filled with cheese. In my case, I had leftover risotto from dinner yesterday and just used it. It's really simple to make and delicious.

Ingredients:
Leftover risotto
Plain Flour
1 Egg
Breadcrumbs
Cheese

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 200 Celcius.
2. Roll leftover risotto in hands and fill with cheese (any will do - I used parmesan and cheddar). This is quite a disgusting process - cold mushy risotto in hands. Just do it quickly and get it over and done with.
3. Coat with plain flour.
4. Coat with egg.
5. Coat with breadcrumbs.
6. Put in oven and bake. Sprinkle with more cheese if desired.

Arancini can also be fried. In fact, that is the more common way of doing it. However, I didn't fancy the extra calories and cleaning up involved. I served it with salad and the leftover egg from the coating, with some sweet chilli sauce.

Leftovers aren't that bad after all.

Labels: Appetizers

posted by Baking Fairy at 3:34 PM