Tapas Recipes hake croquettes

 4 people Half 60 minutes

Ingredients

• 150 gr of chopped hake without bones
• 1 leek
• 1 glass of milk
• 6 tablespoons of flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• olive oil
• -------------------
• To batter and fry:
• 2 eggs
• 1 glass of breadcrumbs
• 1 teaspoon dried parsley
• 2 glasses of olive oil (for frying)

Preparation

1. Wash the hake, drain and reserve.
2. We clean and wash the leek, leaving the green leaves that are tender, these will give a lot of flavor to the croquettes. Once washed, we chop it and reserve a moment.
3. Heat a frying pan with 2 tablespoons of olive oil, when hot add the leek, stir and fry for 10 minutes.
4. After this time we add the chopped hake, stir very well and with the help of a spatula, we break the pieces of hake so that they are not too big and we can handle them well when making the croquettes, stir everything and let fry for 5 minutes.
5. After this time we add 6 tablespoons of flour, mix everything very well and without stopping stirring, let everything sauté for 5 minutes over low heat, this step will make our croquettes not taste like raw flour.
6. After 5 minutes, we add the glass of milk little by little, we continue stirring and in a matter of seconds, we already see how our croquette dough comes out.
7. Once all the milk has been added, add the salt, black pepper and nutmeg, stir very well and let everything cook for 3 more minutes.
8. After this time, we remove from the heat and place our croquette dough in a tray to cool down and thus handle the dough well without burning ourselves.
9. Once the croquette dough is cold, prepare a bowl with the beaten egg, another with the breadcrumbs mixed with the teaspoon of dried parsley.
10. We begin to make croquettes, we help ourselves with two spoons or with very clean hands, we are going to take small amounts of dough, we shape it into a croquette, we pass it through the beaten egg and finally through the breadcrumbs, like this one and another until finished, we place them in another tray and prepare to fry.
11. We put a frying pan on the fire with the 2 glasses of oil, when it is hot we add the croquettes, we fry them on both sides for 5 minutes.
12. Once fried, remove them from the pan and place them on a plate with absorbent paper to remove excess oil.
13. Once the excess oil has been removed, we place them on a plate and we already have our hake croquettes.