Beef Croquettes

Poi with butter and two hot beef croquettes, who wouldn’t want a snack like that? Although the snack goes well anytime of the day and is a great complement with drinks or as an appetizer or a side dish!

Croquettes Ingredients:

Half Kg Mince (Whichever meat you prefer Beef or Mutton)
2 Onions
1 Potato
1 Carrot
Half a Capsicum (optional)
5-6 Cloves Garlic
1/2 Tsp Turmeric
1 Egg
Half inch Ginger
6 French Beans
100gms Peas
2 Green Chilies
Coriander Leaves
1 Tsp Garam Masala Powder (In the recipe we have added the spices and ground them as we din’t have Garam Masala ready)
Sour lime or Vinegar
Rawa

How to Make Croquettes:

So here’s how you make Beef Croquettes with simple step by step instructions.

First of course you need to have some mince, it could also be made with mutton, but not with fish or chicken.

Pre cook the mince in the cooker, just a whistle will do as we just need it semi done.

Don’t forget to add some salt

Add a little water to the pressure cooker, not too much just enough to get a whistle and not burn.

Once thats done, open up the pressure cooker and add the diced vegetables to it

Once your vegetables are added then add the garam masala

As I said earlier since we were out of the masala powder we added the spices separately

Some haldi powder, or a piece of whole turmeric

Then pepper, cinnamon, cloves and jeera.

Once your garam masala is added to the dish then close the pressure cooker and keep it on for 15 minutes on a slow fire.

Post that, open the cooker again and check for water in it. If there’s a lot of water in it left, like we had, then keep it on the fire till most of it evaporates.

Then add the sour lime juice, or vinegar

Throw in the chopped coriander leaves

Then break the two bread slices up and add them to the mince, bread is the binding agent.

Once your breads in, its time to put the croquette mixture into the blender.

When it forms a paste, your croquette mixture is just about ready

Add an Egg to the mixture and mix it up well

Then heat some oil in a pan and while that’s getting done its time to make the croquettes

I have put multiple pictures of rolling the croquettes in Rawa so that it helps make it easier to do

Hopefully that should help, take a ball elongate it and roll it in the breadcrumb or rawa, till each croquette is coated evenly.

Make enough croquettes that your pan can handle, and include space that you need to turn them about.

Take a small ball, roll it on the board to make it elongated.

Then roll it on the crumbs, also flatten both the ends.

Once you have enough croquettes for frying in the first lot put them on the pan.

This way you can end up doing it a little faster, while the first lot is getting down you can get the next lot ready.

Slow fire is the best to get the croquettes nicely done on all sides.

Turn them once in a while to make sure its getting cooked evenly all around.

Once their nicely done on all sides your Beef Croquettes are ready to eat.

This batch was tastier than normal, I think its because of the freshly ground spices as compared to using a pre made masala. But either way you and your loved ones are in for a treat 🙂