Description
A typical tapa in Spanish bars, these Vegan Spanish Spinach Croquettes have tons of flavour and can be a terrific, vegan party finger food or appetizer!
Ingredients
Scale
- 600ml – Almond milk
- 250 gm – Spinach chopped
- 120 ml – Vegetable stock
- 1& 1/2 cup – Breadcrumbs/ Gluten-free breadcrumb
- 2 – Onion chopped
- Salt to taste
- Black pepper powder
- 4 cloves – Garlic chopped
- 1/2 cup – Tapioca flour / Almond flour/ Gluten-free flour
- 3 tbsp – Olive oil or vegan butter
- 1 cup – Coriander leaves chopped
Instructions
- Take 3/4 cup water and one sachet of Maggi Masala for preparing vegetable stock or just take vegetable stock. Keep aside. Boil 2 cups of water in a pan and add chopped spinach and blanch for 3 minutes. Take out turn off the gas.
- Strain all the water. Wash the boiled spinach with cold water. Wash again and strain the water.
- Drain out excess water and keep it aside on a plate.
- Add milk to a pan. Add vegetable stock. Warm the milk do not boil the mixture for 4 minutes. Keep aside.
- In a pan, add olive oil. Add chopped garlic cloves. Sautee for one minute.
- Add onions chopped. Fry till translucent.
- Take a sieve and pour tapioca flour / all-purpose flour.
- On medium flame, sieve the flour. Mix everything for 4 minutes.
- Gradually add milk mixture into the flour. Mix everything nicely. Keep stirring till smooth creamy mixture.
- Add blanched spinach and coriander chopped. Mix everything nicely.
- Add salt and black pepper powder as per your taste. Turn off the gas when the mixture is ready. Pour mixture into a bowl. Let it cool down.
- Now keep in the fridge for 2 hours. Take out from the freezer. Take some mixture to oval shape the croquettes.
- Dip the croquettes in almond milk. Then coat in breadcrumbs. Again dip in almond milk and again coat in breadcrumbs. Prepare all the croquettes in the same way.
- Grease oil in the air fryer. Put all the croquettes.
- Set the air fryer 360 degrees F or on 200° C depends on your air fryer. Set timer for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes take out and grease oil. Put it inside and set a timer for 10 minutes.
- Take out carefully with help of a tong.
- Croquettes are ready to be served with ketchup or dip of your choice.
Notes
- You can experiment with the amount and types of vegetables you use.
- You can use tapioca flour gluten-free instead of all-purpose flour which is usually used for making the bechamel sauce.
- You can use plain vegan butter instead of olive oil.
- You can use frozen spinach instead of fresh spinach
- Blanch the spinach for 5 minutes and then strain out excess water with cold water.
- I have used almond milk you can also use full-fat milk.
- Compared to the whole wheat panko crumbs, white panko crumbs don’t have a nice golden-brown color when baked. If your croquettes are going to be baked, I suggest using whole wheat panko crumbs.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes + Chill time - 2 hours
- Cook Time: 20 Minutes
- Category: Appetizer, Side Dish, Snack
- Method: Air-fry
- Cuisine: Spanish
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 150Kcal
- Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 6g
- Protein: 1.7g