We had our small wedding with family and friends.
My husband Jamel loved the Italian food.
For the first time, he had a chance to taste all the goodies that Sicily had to offer.
Besides the yummy pizza and ricotta cheese pastries, he really loved the
arangini.
So once in a while, Jay will ask me to make those for him.
I admit: making them is a lot of work, but it is really worth it!
Here is my recipe.
First, you will need:
white rice
ground beef or ground veal. you could also mix them together.
1 can of peeled plum-shaped tomatoes(I only use 2 tomatoes not the whole can.)
1 can of pure tomatoes
Bread crumbs.
2 eggs
mozzarella cheese
sweet peas
Sazon goya... it will make your rice yellow.
1 carrot,
celery,
sweet peas,
olive oil,
salt and pepper
add the meat.
When its almost done,
add the 2 plum-shaped tomatoes.
Wait a few minutes then add the tomato puree.
Make sure you taste it, and
add salt and black paper if you need to.
After 1 and a half hours of cooking,
it should look like this.
Make sure it is not watery.
The tomato sauce needs to be thick,
so cook it on low heat.
If it needs more than 1 hour, it's fine.
The rice
Cook the rice for long time.
When cooking the rice, it will need to be overcooked with no water left in the pot. The rice needs to be sticky.
It will be easy to work with when you form the balls.
The rice looks yellow because after it is cooked, I added Sazon. Also, add the Parmesan cheese to the rice, it will make it tastier!
This will make your rice yellow.
to roll your rice ball in.
First, you need to beat the eggs. Next, you will soak the rice ball in the eggs. Then, dip the balls into the bread crumbs. Finally, I fried them in hot vegetable oil.
The yummy result!!!
Here are the links of the preparation.
Note: the tomato sauce is a recipe my aunt gave me, so it wont be in this video.
Here, the instructions are in Italian.
Here, the instructions are in English.
