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This recipe I’ve been owing to my friend Alfonso from the blog Recetas de Rechupete!! I finallyyyy made them. It’s funny how I started to cook much more peruvian food when I wen to live to Madrid, and now that I’m in Berlin, well, of courseee I miss some Spanish food :) So, my friend Ana came to visit and brought typical jamón serrano, chorizo, lomo. My roomate Clovis also loves cooking and making thematic dinners, so he prepared the delicious Tortilla (delicious) and I made some tostas with my rye home-made bread and this croquetas. It has some delicacy but it’s not hard, you just have to put energy to it!! This time, not so many pictures of them, they ate them so fast, they would not let me!! Imagine how good they were :)

Ingredients.

For the bechamel (taken from Recetas de Rechupete):

• 3 tablespoons flour
• 3 tablespoons butter
• 750 ml whole fresh milk
• Nutmeg
• Salt and freshly ground pepper

For the fillings (spinach and mushrooms):

• 2 white onions
• 1 cup of fresh spinach
• 1/4 cup of raisins
• 250 gr mushrooms
• finely chopped parsley
• salt, pepper and nutmeg

For the breading:

• 3 eggs and grated bread.

Preparation.

We first start with the bechamel sauce

1. Sift the flour.
2. Start heating the milk at medium heat for about 5 minutes, without allowing it to boil.
3. Melt the butter at low heat.
4. Add the flour and mix well until it browns a little. This is called Roux.
5. Mix well with a wooden spoon and when it is all well incorporated, start to add the milk beating constantly to prevent that lumps get formed.