How to Cook Tasty ARANCINI (rice ball)

ARANCINI (rice ball). Add wine and cook, stirring often, until pan is almost. Sicilian Arancini are rice balls stuffed with cheese and other fillings such as cheese and meat, the coated with bread crumbs and deep fried. The fillings vary by region but arancini have been popular in Italy for centuries.

Arancini, rice balls stuffed with sauce and peas, are one of the best-loved Sicilian snacks and street foods, and they have become increasingly popular throughout Italy and worldwide. The filling in this recipe is one of the most classic—a meat ragù , green peas, and melty mozzarella, but there are endless other types of fillings including. For perfectly fried, mozzarella Arancini, dip a rice ball into flour and shake off any excess. You can cook ARANCINI (rice ball) using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of ARANCINI (rice ball)

1. It's 400 g of white risotto or saffron risotto.
2. It's 4 slice of ham.
3. It's 1 of mozzarella cut in little squares.
4. You need 200 g of flour.
5. Prepare 300 ml of water.
6. You need Pinch of salt.
7. It's of Vegetable frying oil.
8. It's of Bread crumbs.

Dip floured ball into egg, allowing any excess to drip off. Finish by coating completely in breadcrumbs. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the remaining butter, Parmesan cheese, salt, and pepper. The traditional Sicilian street food is now available for everyone.

ARANCINI (rice ball) instructions

1. Start making the white risotto and add the saffron to it..
2. Finish the risotto adding butter and parmesan cheese and cover with clingfilm so it touches the rice. Leave it to cool down. (If you are using left over risotto then skip step 1 and 2).
3. Once the rice is completely cooled down start making the batter for the arancini. Add to the flour a pinch of salt and the water and whisk until there are no lumps..
4. Put some risotto in the palm of your hand, add ham and mozzarella and shape it to a ball. Submerge in the batter and completely coat the rice ball..
5. Move the ball in the bread crumbs and fry in hot oil and cook until golden and mozzarella inside is melted. Serve hot..

As a young boy in Sicily, Giovanni Gambino worked with one of the top chefs in Italy and worked in a pasateria, where he learned how to make authentic arancini. It's filled with ground turkey and a little sausage which adds lots of flavor, plus peas and sauce. More casserole recipes I love are Chicken Sausage and Peppers Macaroni Casserole, Spiralized Turnip and Potato Au Gratin Casserole and Tuna Noodle Casserole. I can't take full credit for this, this is pure genius from my friend Julia of Julia's Healthy Italian. I make these rice balls all the time but a little differently.