🇪🇸 How to Make Croquetas de Jamón

Craving Croquetas de Jamón? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Croquetas de Jamón at home, in about 50 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 60g butter
• 80g flour
• 500ml whole milk, warm
• 100g jamón serrano, finely chopped
• a grating of nutmeg
• flour, 2 beaten eggs and breadcrumbs, to coat
• oil for frying

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Melt the butter, fry the jamón 2 min, then stir in the flour and cook 2 min.
2. Add the warm milk a splash at a time, beating hard. It will look wrong, then suddenly right.
3. Cook, stirring, 10 min until the béchamel pulls away from the pan in one mass. Season with nutmeg.
4. Spread in a tray, press cling film onto the surface and chill at least 3 hrs. It must be cold and stiff.
5. Roll into fat fingers, then flour, egg and breadcrumb each one. Double-coat any that look fragile.
6. Fry at 180°C for 2 min until deep gold. Molten inside — wait a minute before eating one.