Weekend Recipes: Make Sicilian Style Crispy Fried Dumplings, Arancini Siciliani, To Impress Your Family, Guests

Ingredients

• 200 grams arborio Rice
• Flour to coat
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying
• 5 grams chopped thyme leaves
• 100 grams cooked minced seasoning adjusted lamb
• 50 grams shredded mozzarella cheese
• 30 grams grated parmesan cheese
• 25 grams de-shelled and mildly roasted pine nuts
• Bread crumbs for coating
• Egg wash to coat

Step

1. Step 1:

   In a Pan cook Arborio Rice by gradually adding vegetable stock. This process should take 20-25 mins.

2. Step 2:

   Add thyme and salt to taste.

3. Step 3:

   Let well cooked sticky rice come at room temperature. I suggest, use a flat plate to spread this rice for faster results.

4. Step 4:

   Once cooler, add Parmesan cheese and mix well.

5. Step 5:

   Take smaller portions of this rice mixture (25-30 grams) on to your palm; flatten with thumb and stuffed it with pre-cooked lamb mince, followed by a little shredded mozzarella and 1 pine nut.

6. Step 6:

   Form them into balls making sure that no filling oozes out. Let these balls rest in the fridge for ½ an hour.

7. Step 7:

   Dust the dumplings with flour; roll it in the beaten egg wash and coat properly and evenly with bread crumbs.

8. Step 8:

   Heat oil in a deep dish on a medium heat.

9. Step 9:

   Fry these Arancini balls golden/ till cooked to the core.