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Desserts

Three Cheese Chicken and Chile Croquettes

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. Molly's Kitchen® Three Cheese Chicken and Chile Dip
  • 6 oz. Pacific Jade® Plain Coarse Panko Bread Crumbs
  • 3 ea. Glenview Farms® Large Shell Eggs
  • 2.5 oz. Hilltop Hearth® All-Purpose Flour

PREPARATION

  1. Separate beaten eggs, flour and breadcrumbs into three different bowls.
  2. Using 1.25 ounces of cold chili dip, shape by hand into croquettes (little barrels).
  3. Dip into the flour first to lightly coat, then the eggs and then the breadcrumbs. Set onto a sheet pan and chill. 
  4. From cold, gently drop the croquettes into the fryer, and cook about 3 minutes until golden brown.

Suggested sauces to accompany th croquettes, either as a drizzle over the composed plate or a dipping sauce:
- 75/25 blend of mayo and buffalo wing sauce
- Your favorite salsa
- Mole sauce
- Reduced heavy cream with some finely diced serrano chili,and finished with lime and cilantro


Recipe by Scott McCurdy, Field Culinary Director

Serves 4 (makes 12 croquettes)