Healthy Croquettes
Diet recipes contest 2008 Prizewinner
| Cooking time | about 40min |
|---|---|
| Salt | 0.1 g |
| Calories per serving（Kcal） | Conventional recipe 69 ⇒ Diet Recipe 48 |
ingredients（4 servings）
| danshaku potatoes | 2 |
|---|---|
| salt | some |
| pepper | some |
| avocado | 1 |
| lemon juice | some |
| grated Chinese yam（nagaimo） | 2 tbsp |
| oil | 1 tbsp |
| dry bread crumbs | 1 cup |
| cherry tomatoes | 4 to 8 |
| parsley | some |
Preparation
- Peel potatoes. Boil from cold water. Lightly mash while hot, and add salt and pepper.
- Peel and chop avocado, put it in a bowl, add lemon juice, and mix with spatula until pasty.
- Mix（1）and（2）well, add salt and pepper, and make croquette shapes.
- Immerse（3）in a mixture of ground Chinese yam and oil before dredging in bread crumbs.
- Put oven sheet on baking tray, and bake for about 20 min.
- Serve（5）with cherry tomatoes and parsley.
Helpful Hints
- Normally croquettes are breaded and deep-fried, absorbing as much oil as 20 to 25 % of the total ingredient mass, but in this recipe the oil amount is reduced by baking the croquettes in an oven.