Croquettes of Beets
12 02 08 - 02:05 Ingredients for 6 people:1 kilo of beets, 200 grams of wheat flour, 125 milliliters of olive oil, 3 eggs, 1 big onion, 3 grams of pepper, 5 grams of fine salt.
Preparation:
In a big bowl with water wash the beets very well and we cut them. We put the clean beets in a pan with water, salt and we boil them during ten minutes, we take out them, we are slippery and we reserve in a bowl. Next with our electric blender we crush the beets and when they are we add the eggs, the very cut onion, the salt and the pepper. We continue beating until we obtain a well crushed, dense and homogeneous mass composed by all the previously mentioned ingredients. We have left to go adding the wheat flour little by little so that he thickens our mass what is necessary to be able to manipulate it and to form our croquettes. To form the croquettes we catch with a soup tablespoon of metal some mass, we form the croquette giving it forms him with another tablespoon and we go them putting in a source for then to be able to fry them. When we have all the prepared croquettes we fry them in a pan with oil of very hot olive until they are golden, we remove them the excess of fat with a kitchen paper and we serve hot to our table in a source.