Calabrese Vrascioli, easier to do than to say! – Italian Cuisine

Calabrese Vrascioli, easier to do than to say!


Let's go to Calabria to discover a truly delicious traditional recipe: that of the vrascioli, or fried meatballs. Here's how to prepare them

Do you know those recipes that immediately make the house, that when you enter from the door, you recognize them from the smell? Here are the vrascioli they are one of these. These are easy to prepare comfort foods minced meatballs from Calabrian they are also called "Sleepy freckles", precisely because it was not difficult for grandmothers to prepare them on Sunday mornings, to serve them for lunch.
In our gallery, find some curiosity about the vrascioli, while below we give you the ingredients and the method to prepare the Calabrian brakes at home.

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Ingredients

To prepare the Calabrian brakes you need: 500 gr of minced meat (according to tradition, half of beef, half of pork); soaked stale bread to taste; grated cheese (parmesan or pecorino) to taste; 2 eggs; chopped parsley; a clove of garlic; extra virgin olive oil and salt to taste.

Method

Add the minced meat, the squeezed stale bread, the eggs, the grated cheese, the parsley and the clove of garlic, both chopped and salt to taste. Mix everything together to obtain a homogeneous mixture. Remove the balls, forming elongated croquettes. Fry them in plenty of extra virgin olive oil until a golden crust appears. Dry them with absorbent paper and serve hot.

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