Marra's Fried Tomato and Mozzarella Arancini

"There are many arancini (or rice ball) recipes out there, many complicated, many just parmesan and chicken stock or milanese. I recreated what i got at school in Italy in grade 7. I love them and they are easy. If you have 2 cups of short grain cooked rice left over use them. Or if you have any tomato sauce and cooked short grain rice left over then just mix them together, and proceed to adding the mozzarella, dredge and cook."
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
11
Serves:
2
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ingredients

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directions

  • First of all put the olive oil in a heavy saucepan on medium heat and add onion and garlic until softened. then add rice coating it in oil.
  • Put 1/2 cup of water and 1/2 cup of tomato sauce in a measuring cup and slowly add a quarter cup, stirring constantly until absorbed, then add another quarter cup until done. This is a bit of a slow process, you want the rice to absorb the sauce before adding more. It is important to continuously stir, like any risotto or the bottom will burn. Once this is done, then add a 1/2c of water/tomato sauce mix, until absorbed, taste and add more if necessary. Until you get nice tender rice.
  • Set aside to cool.
  • Set up breading station, with a bowl for the 2 eggs, whisk, a bowl for bread crumbs and a bowl for flour.
  • Take a small handful with wet hands of the cooled risotto, and make a dent. put 1 cube of mozzarella in it and cover it in a circle. I admit i put large amts of mozzarella in lol. Dredge in flour, then egg and then bread crumbs. My own preference is to dredge them again in egg and breadcrumbs but that is up to you.
  • Make all your arancini (means small oranges) and heat the canola or other frying oil to medium high in a skillet. Place the balls in batches, turning as each side browns. Remove and drain.
  • You will hear and see a few "leaking" cheese very quickly. I take those out sooner and after draining give it 15 seconds in the microwave before serving so they totally melt the cheese without it disappearing where I can't eat it into the oil.

Questions & Replies

  1. Has anyone made these in an airfryer?
     
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Reviews

  1. These are fantastic! In the end the arancini was absolutely delicious, however, I did have some problems with the recipe. The directions for adding the water/tomato sauce mixture were very confusing... I suggest re-writing it somehow to explain the directions better. Also, the recipe only called for 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup tomato sauce to cook the risotto rice. This was definitely not enough. I am a pretty good cook but was getting very frustrated with the recipe because I had never made risotto before and the amount of liquid needed to be tripled for it to come out right. Those are my only negatives about this recipe.... They turned out wonderfully in the end! Absolutely delicious!!! I have had arancini at restaurants before and the ones I made were perfect! I even used chopped up string cheese as the mozzerella and it worked out great! :)
     
  2. I've never had an arancini before so have nothing to compare it to.. but wanted to give this a shot since it looked so yummy. I'm so glad i went ahead and made it!! These were so yummy that my family devoured them!! The only change i did was to substitute cheddar cheese for the mozzarella since my family prefers cheddar for its creaminess rather than mozzarella for its stringiness. <br/>These lil things will be made often!!! Thank you so much for the recipe!!
     
  3. Marra, I have never made these before or even heard of them! They were little bites of heaven! :) I made these just as posted. I was thinking about adding some basil in with the mozzerella next time. Can't wait until Dh comes home and tries one!! Thanks for posting this keeper!!!
     
  4. These were just delicious!! I don't care for onions so left them out, otherwise made as directed. I've never had arancini before and you didn't mention how they should be served, so I just topped some with my favorite meat sauce and served some plain. Both ways they were fantastic!! Thanks for posting!
     
  5. I used hot chicken broth in place of water and increased the fresh garlic, I also added in some fresh chopped parsley, salt and black pepper, we enjoyed the arancini, thanks for posting MarraMamba!...Kitten:)
     
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Tweaks

  1. I served with some marinara sauce and a sprinkling of freshly grated parmesan and chopped parsley.
     
  2. I've never had an arancini before so have nothing to compare it to.. but wanted to give this a shot since it looked so yummy. I'm so glad i went ahead and made it!! These were so yummy that my family devoured them!! The only change i did was to substitute cheddar cheese for the mozzarella since my family prefers cheddar for its creaminess rather than mozzarella for its stringiness. <br/>These lil things will be made often!!! Thank you so much for the recipe!!
     
  3. I used hot chicken broth in place of water and increased the fresh garlic, I also added in some fresh chopped parsley, salt and black pepper, we enjoyed the arancini, thanks for posting MarraMamba!...Kitten:)
     

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