Supplì

What to Put on the Table With Supplì

• A cold beer
• Pizza
• Fried courgette flowers

How to Make Supplì

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1. Soften the onion in the oil, add the mince and brown it, then the tomato purée and wine. Cook until dry.

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2. Add the rice, turn it in the pan, then add the hot stock a ladleful at a time, stirring, for 18 minutes until al dente and thick.

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3. Beat in the parmesan, butter and salt, spread on a tray, cool, and refrigerate at least 720 minutes until cold and stiff.

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4. Dry the mozzarella batons thoroughly on kitchen paper.

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5. Take a handful of cold rice, flatten it in your palm, lay a mozzarella baton in the middle, and close the rice around it into an oval. Seal completely.

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6. Roll each in flour, then egg, then breadcrumbs, pressing the crumb on firmly.

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7. Fry at 180°C / 355°F in batches of four for 4 minutes, turning, until deep brown. Drain on a rack and eat hot enough that the cheese pulls.

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Worth Knowing Before You Cook

The rice must be cold and stiff. Warm rice bursts.

Dry the mozzarella or the steam blows a hole in the crumb.

Seal every seam.

Ingredient Swaps

• A dry vermouth keeps for longer than an open bottle of white wine and is the closer swap than a random white left in the fridge; for an alcohol-free version, use the same amount of stock with a squeeze of lemon.

Leftovers

Refrigerated for 2 days; re-crisp at 200°C / 392°F for 10 minutes. They freeze crumbed and raw for 2 months.

Common Questions

Supplì Nutrition Facts

No nutrition figures are given for this recipe: they cannot be worked out reliably from its ingredient list (some ingredient lines cannot be read). Why some recipes have none.

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