Spinach & Mozzarella Arancini with Roast Tomato Sauce
- Prep: 30 mins
- Cook: 3 hours 10 mins
- Serves: 8 - 10
Ingredients
Spinach Risotto Filling
- 1 onion finely diced
- 1 tbs oil
- 5 threads saffron, soaked in stock
- 1 litre chicken stock, hot
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- ½ cup aborio rice (350g)
- 1 cup white wine
- 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated
- 50g butter
- 150g baby spinach, finely chopped
- 1 tbs pesto
Mozzarella Balls
- 50g mozzarella, cut into 1cm cubes
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg for coating
- ⅓ cup milk
- 1 cup flour for coating
- 1 cup bread crumbs for coating
- 1 cup panko crumbs for coating
- Rice bran oil spray
Tomato Sauce
- 1 tin crushed tomatoes
- 1 punnet cherry tomatoes
- ½ cup red onion finely sliced
- ¼ cup red wine vinegar
- ½ cup water
- 2 tbs olive oil
- 1 tbs brown sugar
- 10 basil leaves
- Salt and Pepper
Method
Spinach Risotto Filling
(This recipe makes 22 spinach mozzarella arancinis)- Sauté the onion until just golden and sticky in oil. Add crushed garlic, stir for 1 min.
- Add rice, stir for 3 mins. Add wine and cook off.
- Add ladles of stock, stirring the whole time, letting each ladle full cook in before adding the next.
- Before the last 2 ladles add the spinach and pesto to cook in.
- Finish the last 2 ladles, adding boiling water if not cooked (cooked should be soft outside, bite inside)
- Add butter and parmesan cheese, store and cover.
- Allow to cool 2-3 hrs before assembling Arancini.
Mozzarella Balls
- Combine the 1 egg and milk and whisk.
- Make ¼ cup balls and insert a mozzarella cube.
- Dredge in flour, dip in egg and roll in crumb, spray all sides in olive oil.
- Preheat oven to AirFry 250 °C.
- AirFry till golden - 10 mins.
Tomato Sauce
- Sauté onion in oil until softened, add remaining ingredients and simmer for 20 mins. Puree once cooled slightly.
To Serve
Tomato sauce, fresh basil leaves and parmesan cheese.
Beau Ryan says: “This is one of my wife’s favourites – she’s a massive fan of Italian style cooking. If you ask her she’d tell you it’s because she’s half Italian, even though I’ve never met an Italian person in her entire family tree (but I’d never tell her that). Bite-size cheesy goodness!”
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