Best Kroketten Recipes

KROKETTEN (DUTCH CROQUETTES)

Steps:

• 1. Heat milk in the microwave.
• 2. In a small saucepan, melt butter.
• 3. Stir in flour to make a paste cook for 3 minutes while continually stirring.
• 4. Then gradually mix in hot milk.
• 5. Bring to a boil, lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
• 6. Add salt and pepper to taste.
• 7. Then pour into a bowl to cool.
• 8. Place all remaining filling ingredients into a food processor and pulse until smooth.
• 9. Add to bowl with cool sauce. Stir well to make a thick paste. Taste and season with salt and pepper if needed.
• 10. Prepare coating stations - flour, egg beaten with the milk and bread crumbs into dipping plates.
• 11. Form paste into small logs (like large sausages).
• 12. Then coat with crumb topping. Roll your logs into flour.
• 13. Then dip in egg/milk mixture.
• 14. Then coat with bread crumbs (make sure to thoroughly cover with each of these three steps).
• 15. Preheat oven to 200 degrees and heat oil to about 350 degrees. Cook for 5 to 10 minutes turning halfway through frying.
• 16. Place fried croquettes on a baking sheet. Keep warm in the 200 degree oven until ready to serve.
• 17. You can eat these just as they are or if you want to try it in the Dutch style slice them lengthwise top with mustard (Dijon or brown) and place on a slice of white bread.
• 18. You know you've done well if the filling is separated from the coating after frying.

DUTCH KROKETTEN (CROQUETTES)

Steps:

• If using left-over chicken or turkey, chop it finely and set aside. Continue with the recipe from Step 3, using stock to make the sauce rather than water, and add the chicken or turkey to the sauce at Step 6.
• If using veal or beef, season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Place a large pan over medium-high heat and melt 2 tablespoons of butter. Add the veal or beef, wine, onion, clove, bay leaves, nutmeg or mace, parsley, thyme, lemon zest or juice and water. (Use chicken stock if you have chosen to use chicken or turkey.) Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes to an hour. By this time the meat should be tender (or if using poultry, the stock will be bursting with flavor).
• Strain the stock and reserve, along with the meat. Finely chop or cut the meat into into small pieces.
• Melt the remaining butter in the pan, stir in the flour and keep stirring for a few minutes on low heat. Don't let it brown. Slowly and gradually add the stock and cook over moderate heat, stirring until the sauce is smooth and thick. Add more flour, or corn starch to thicken the sauce if necessary. Cool slightly and add the 3 egg yolks and mix well (reserve the whites for later).
• Add the veal, beef, chicken or turkey, mix well and season to taste. The mixture should be thick and stiff by this time.
• Set the mixture aside to cool thoroughly. When ready, cut or separate the stiff, thick mixture into rolls about 1.5" thick and about 3" long.
• Spread the crumbs on a clean, dry chopping board. Slightly beat the eggwhites in a deep plate until just incorporated. Roll the croquettes through the breadcrumbs, then through the egg whites and again through the crumbs. (Make sure that the second coating of crumbs is even and thick and no meat mix sticks out, otherwise the croquettes may burst when being deep fried).
• Deep fry the croquettes in batches of four or five for about 4 minutes, or until they are golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper.
• Serve hot, with French fries or fresh chunks of bread. The best way to season is to slather with mustard, as the Dutch do!

VLEES KROKETTEN OR MEAT CROQUETTES

Steps:

• In a saucepan, melt the butter.
• Slowly add the flour and mix until smooth.
• Add the stock, cook 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• In a second saucepan, sauté onions and carrots in oil until soft.
• Add meat and sprinkle with nutmeg, salt and pepper.
• Cook until brown.
• Add to broth mixture.
• Stir in parsley and lemon juice, and cook 1 minute.
• Pour into a bowl and cool.
• Divide into 4 equal portions.
• Form meat mixture into oblong shapes.
• Roll in bread crumbs, then roll in egg wash.
• Roll in breadcrumbs again.
• Heat oil in a frying pan.
• Add meat patties and fry until golden brown.

KROKETTEN

Steps:

• Mix the spices take 3 tbsp of the spice mis and add 1 tbsp of salt.
• Melt margarine and add onions. Saute till soft.
• Stir in flour.
• Boil broth, parsley, maggi, spice mix and meat in a seperate pan.
• Add margarine mix. Mix till a smooth dough.
• Spread on cookie sheet and put in freezer for 4 hours.
• Roll dough into logs. put in breadcrumbs then in beaten eggs and in bread crumbs again.
• Deep fry for 6 minutes.
• Enjoy!

DUTCH KROKETTEN

Steps:

• 1. Boil whole chicken in spiced up(as per taste) and seasoned water and boil for 1 ½ hr (closed lid)
• 2. Remove chicken from stock- let cool down and tear meat into pretty small bite size pieces
• 3. Degrease stock and keep aside
• 4. In same pot –which is now empty- melt 250 gr butter
• 5. Add chopped onion and fry until soft
• 6. Add curry powder and once well absorbed by butter add as much flour-spoon by spoon- as mixture can take until just before “crumbling stage”
• 7. Add ladle by ladle of stock into mixture until consistency is a bit thicker than say yoghurt
• 8. Add spices and soya as per your taste and be generous
• 9. Put pot in fridge overnight
• 1 whole chicken
• 250 gr butter
• ½ finely cut onion
• 4 table spoons of currypowder
• Plenty of flour
• Spices as per your taste: chilie flakes- pepper- paprika etc
• Chickenstock –skimmed of fat
• Good splash of soya sauce
• 3 whisked eggs
• Plenty of breadcrumbs!!
• 1. Boil whole chicken in spiced up(as per taste) and seasoned water and boil for 1 ½ hr (closed lid)
• 2. Remove chicken from stock- let cool down and tear meat into pretty small bite size pieces
• 3. Degrease stock and keep aside
• 4. In same pot –which is now empty- melt 250 gr butter
• 5. Add chopped onion and fry until soft
• 6. Add curry powder and once well absorbed by butter add as much flour-spoon by spoon- as mixture can take until just before “crumbling stage”
• 7. Add ladle by ladle of stock into mixture until consistency is a bit thicker than say yoghurt
• 8. Add spices and soya as per your taste and be generous
• 9. Put pot in fridge overnight
• Next day:
• Put 2 oven trays next to another -1 with seasoned flour and one with bread crumbs
• Roll a small handfull of mixture into flour and roll into kroket shape then
• Roll thru whisked eggs then
• Roll thru breadcrumbs.
• Voila
• In deep fat fryer :
• Cook for 6 min in medium hot oil from “fresh” until nicely golden or from frozen for 10 minutes but ensure fat not too hot otherwise they burn
• BTW you can also roll mixture into pingpong sized balls and serve as savoury snacks
• Enjoy
• Rob
• Next day:
• Put 2 oven trays next to another -1 with seasoned flour and one with bread crumbs
• Roll a small handfull of mixture into flour and roll into kroket shape then
• Roll thru whisked eggs then
• Roll thru breadcrumbs.
• Voila
• In deep fat fryer :
• Cook for 6 min in medium hot oil from “fresh” until nicely golden or from frozen for 10 minutes but ensure fat not too hot otherwise they burn
• Next day:
• Put 2 oven trays next to another -1 with seasoned flour and one with bread crumbs
• Roll a small handfull of mixture into flour and roll into kroket shape then
• Roll thru whisked eggs then
• Roll thru breadcrumbs.
• Voila
• In deep fat fryer :
• Cook for 6 min in medium hot oil from “fresh” until nicely golden or from frozen for 10 minutes but ensure fat not too hot otherwise they burn
• BTW you can also roll mixture into pingpong sized balls and serve as savoury snacks
• Enjoy
• Rob