Paella Arancini
The best recipe to come from leftovers, delicious and so moreish
Ingredients
- 300 grams Cooked and Cooled Paella
- 20 grams Breadcrumbs
- 1 Egg
Coating
- 50 grams Plain Flour All Purpose
- 1 Egg
- 50 grams Panko Breadcrumbs
Instructions
- Your paella needs to be fridge cold so get the paella in the fridge for at least 4 hours, or overnight works well.
- Take your cooked and cooled paella and snip the chorizo and chicken into small pieces about the same as the peas or pepper, you want everything to be a similar size.Add in 1 beaten egg and the breadcrumbs and mix to combine this needs to be a sticky mixture.Roll into balls in your hands applying pressure to really stick them together. I like mine to be roughly the size of an egg.Once rolled you can place these back in the fridge if you wish to firm up, this however can be skipped if you are pushed for time.
- Heat up the oil, either in a deep fat fryer, or enough oil in a deep saucepan to mostly cover the arancini. You want it hot about 180°C.Whilst the oil is heating, you can set up your pane line. You need 3 dishes I find shallow dishes easiest you can use bowls though. In the first goes Flour, second your Egg (beaten), third the Panko.
- Take your Paella balls and roll first in the flour, then in the beaten Egg, finally in the Panko.
- Place your panko crumbed arancini into the hot oil and deep fry turning once or twice to make sure they brown evenly.(Don’t play around with them though you don’t want them break apart in that oil)Once golden brown place on kitchen towel to drain and then serve warm.
Notes
TIP FOR BATCH COOKING
If you want to make a batch brown and drain them all.You can then heat them in the oven for 5-10 mins at 180°C – great if you are having them as nibbles at a party make in advance then reheat.
LEFTOVERS TIP
There really isn’t much you can do with these leftovers, I am confident that you won’t have much if any though.If you want you can freeze cooked arancini for up to a month. To recrisp and reheat, go straight from freezer to oven for 20 mins at 200°C.