Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 500 g potatoes peeled and diced
- 50 g butter
- 50 g flour
- 200 g chorizo diced & blitzed ( or nduja )
- 150 g Irish mature cheddar cheese grated
- 20 g roast garlic confit 1 bulb & 1tbsp olive oil
- 1 egg beaten
- 50 g flour
- 50-100 g breadcrumbs
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Oil for frying
- 4 jambon / serrano ham
Instructions
- Boil the potatoes in a large pot of salted water until tender. Drain and mash the potatoes in a bowl. Stir in the butter and allow this to melt all the way through. Sprinkle in the flour and combine well. Season.
- If using chorizo, fry the chorizo until a little crispy and blitz (or chop) into a very fine crumb. Add the chorizo and grated cheddar cheese to the mashed potatoes and mix well.
- Shape the mixture into small croquettes.
- Dip each croquette into flour, then into the beaten egg, then coat with breadcrumbs.
- Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Fry the croquettes until golden brown on all sides.
- Serve the chorizo and cheddar potato croquettes hot with a dollop of Irish Builin Blasta smoked onion mayonnaise, a small strip of Serrano ham and finely diced chive.