Croquette (small fried roll with mashed potatoes and vegetables inside) is quite easy to make. You can make lots of them and freeze them too!
Inside this bento, puppy dog faced croquette (eyes, nose and mouth with cut-out Nori and cheese, ears with croquette), egg roll, teriyaki chicken, broccoli, mini tomatoes, fried rice underneath croquette.
This croquette was actually meant to be a teddy bear but I have given up on cutting ears like a teddy bear.
Puppy dog’s ears were alot easier to make.
Here is how to make croquette and teriyaki chicken.
Croquette
Ingredients- Boiled and mashed potatoes (2 large potatoes), half cup of frozen vegetables, Japanese bread crumbs, flour, egg, salt and pepper
1. mix mashed potatoes and vegetables. add salt and pepper to taste.
2. make a roll and coat with flour
3. dip rolls into whisked egg then coat with bread crumbs
4. fry them in small amounts of oil (i usually use coconut oil or rice bran oil for frying foods)
In case you don’t want to fry foods, there is a way to make croquettes without frying them in oil.
What you do is to roast bread crumbs in a frying pan (no oil) till brown in colour, after making rolls with potatoes, roll those into roasted bread crumbs until evenly coated.
Teriyaki Chicken
Ingredients- 500g of free range chicken thighs, half cup of potato flour, 2 table spoon of soy sauce, 1 table spoon of Sake (rice wine), 2 tablespoon of brown sugar, salt and pepper, oil to cook
1. salt and pepper chicken and leave them for 10 mins, then coat chicken thighs with potato flour lightly.
2. Add about 2 table spoon of oil into a frying pan, cook chicken well.
3. Pour teriyaki sauce mixture on chicken then cook for another 10 – 15 mins on low heat.
I usually add a little water into sauce , put lid on frying pan and stir chicken occasionally so they don’t get burnt.
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