Easiest Way to Make Arancini in 14 Minutes for Beginners

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, arancini. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Arancini are Italian snacks consisting of a ball of rice coated with bread crumbs and then deep fried—a staple of Sicilian cuisine. The most common fillings are: al ragù or al sugo, filled with ragù. Sicilian Arancini are deliciously plump stuffed rice balls filled with ragu, peas, mozzarella and deep fried.

Arancini is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Arancini is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have arancini using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Arancini:

1. Take 2 cups Cooked rice - Arborio or any other sticky rice
2. Get 1/2 cup boiled black chickpeas
3. Get 2-3 tbsp Mozzarella cheese cubes(I used grated ones)
4. Take 1 tsp Red chilli powder
5. Make ready 1 tbsp Parsley
6. Get 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
7. Make ready 3-4 Garlic cloves
8. Take 1 " grated Ginger
9. Take 1 Onion chopped
10. Make ready 1 cup bread crumbs
11. Get 2 tbsp corn flour to make a slurry
12. Take as required Oil - For frying
13. Prepare For Garnish:
14. Make ready few mint leaves, green Chilies and papad
15. Prepare For serving:
16. Get as required Sweet chilli sauce

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Instructions to make Arancini:

1. In a bowl take the cooked rice and mash a bit with hand or in a food processor
2. In a pan take 1 tsp oil and heat it - Add chopped onion, garlic and ginger sauté for 1-2 minutes and then add masala and parsley to it - Stir and add boiled and crushed black chickpeas - Mix nicely and take it out in a plate - Let it cool
3. Mix corn flour with water to make slurry - Take out the bread crumbs in a dry plate
4. Now to make rice balls - - Take a small portion of mashed rice in your palm and flatten it - - Keep little portion of chana mixture on it and a small cube of mozzarella cheese - Now carefully close the ball giving oval shape
5. Dip the prepared ball in the slurry and roll it on the bread crumbs - - Prepare all balls like this and keep oil in a wok for heating
6. Once the oil is hot enough fry the Arancini balls - - Remove from the oil once they are golden brown
7. Fry the papad and green chilli too - - *for Serving - - Place the Arancini balls in your serving dish with papad and chilli - Garnish with mint leaves - Serve hot along with sweet chilli sauce.(my pic doesn’t have sauce as my kids don’t like it much)

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