Meat and potato croquettes

Serves: 6

Ingredients:

• 1 kg potatoes
• 4 eggs
• 50 g grated cheese
• 100 g breadcrumbs
• 300 g minced beef
• 1 medium red onion
• 1 wine glass white wine
• 200 g tomato salsa
• Chopped parsley
• Salt
• Pepper
• Olive oil (for frying)

Preparation:

Boil the washed potatoes in their skins for 20 minutes; drain, peel and mash. Add half the grated cheese, half the breadcrumbs, two egg yolks and the salt and pepper. Set the egg whites aside in a bowl. Boil the other two eggs until they are hard. Sauté the chopped onion a little oil and add the minced beef and the wine and cook for few minutes before adding the tomato salsa. Cook until the mixture becomes a thick meat sauce and then add the rest of the cheese and the diced hard boiled eggs.

Irene Milito