I may have designed it too look like a small crab (or atleast tried to haha), but the picture is actually of tuna croquettes. Croquettes are very easy to make, and you can pretty much fill it with any meat or vegetable you like. I actually wanted to put some chicken and mushrooms in this one, but I got too lazy so I used tuna instead! Here's what you need to make about 4-5 croquettes:
Ingredients:
1 can of 150g tuna flakes (i prefer hot and spicy century tuna)
1.5 really big potato
1/4 of a carrot, diced into small cubes
1 onion finely chopped
Panko
Flour
2 eggs (1 beaten)
Salt and pepper
Directions:
1. First boil the potato (need not be peeled)
2. When the potato is boiled, mash it and add a tsp of pepper and a pinch of salt
3. Break an egg into it and mash together
4. Let the mashed potato cool.
5. While the potato is cooling, prepare tuna, carrots, and onion.
6. Sautee carrots and onion using about 2 tbsps of the oil from the can of tuna
7. Throw out the rest of the oil or save it for some other dish.
8. When the carrots begin to soften and the onion begins caramelizing, add the tuna flakes
9. As they cook together, break the flakes into smaller pieces
10. Saute for about 5 minutes until the tuna, carrots, and onions are no longer so wet
11. Mix have of the contents of your pan with the mashed potato.
12. Roll mashed potato into a small ball the size of your palm. As you do this add a bit more tuna+carrot+onion in the ball and roll again. Repeat process until there is no tuna and mashed potato left.
13. Dredge the balls in the flour, dip in the beaten egg, and then coat with panko. Repeat till all balls are coated.
14. Put oil in a pan, about an an inch thick.
15. When it is hot enough (you will find out if you put a bit of panko in the oil and it sizzles and floats), fry one side of a potato ball.
16. As it fries, press it down with the spatula so that it kind of looks like a little 1 inch pancake.
17. When the bottom part is brown and crispy, flip the potato.. well now it's a flat-ish circle haha
18. Repeat until all the balls are done!
19. Serve either with tartar sauce/mayonaisse or Tonkatsu sauce! :D
! Warning Do NOT try to make the croquette too big, unless you have some kind of cool cooking device or if maybe you're using a deep fryer, because it will BREAK.
