You probably already have the stuff to make these crispy croquettes. Yellow mustard’s subtle tanginess combined with the saltiness of the ham creates a creamy flavor that becomes a fast favorite.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 12 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 27 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 12 croquettes |
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons butter
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup milk
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups diced ham
- 2 tablespoons prepared yellow mustard
- 1 tablespoon dried minced onion
- canola oil for frying
- 2 eggs, or to taste
- 1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
Instructions
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add flour slowly, stirring to create a buttery paste. Add milk and salt; cook and stir until mixture thickens, about 5 minutes. Let cool.
- Mix ham, mustard, and onion thoroughly into the butter mixture. Chill dough in the refrigerator until safe to handle, 1 to 2 hours.
- Shape chilled dough into croquettes about 1/3 cup apiece.
- Preheat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
- Beat eggs in a bowl. Place bread crumbs into a separate bowl. Dip each croquette in the egg; coat in bread crumbs. Repeat with remaining croquettes.
- Fry croquettes in the hot oil in batches until browned and crispy, 7 to 8 minutes.
- We have determined the nutritional value of oil for frying based on a retention value of 10% after cooking. Amount will vary depending on cooking time and temperature, ingredient density, and specific type of oil used.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 332 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 26 g |
| Cholesterol | 103 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 14 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 1188 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 19 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I feel it makes way too much white sauce for the amount of ham. I added the sauce to the ham a little at a time until I felt the mixture just stayed together . Hopefully when we fry them tomorrow they will not fall apart like the previous reviewer said.
Made as written and this didn’t work for me at all. The flavor was great but the croquettes never would firm up in the oil. I let them go as long as I could without burning but when I tried to flip, they crumbled. As written they are too wet. After chilling in the fridge overnight, the batter balled up perfectly and I had high hopes but they disintegrated with the flip. The flavor was really good so I’d like to play around with this more but as written they just didn’t work. Sorry.