Brazilian-Style Stuffed Chicken Croquettes
A traditional Brazilian recipe for crispy croquettes featuring a creamy dough and a shredded chicken filling. Perfect as an appetizer or starter, served hot with spicy dipping sauces.
🛒 Ingredients
12 servings
- Dough: 2 cups chicken cooking broth
- Dough: 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Dough: 2 tbsp butter or margarine
- Dough: Salt to taste
- Filling: 2 cups cooked and shredded chicken
- Filling: 1 tbsp vegetable or olive oil
- Filling: 0.5 onion, minced
- Filling: 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Filling: 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
- Filling: Salt and pepper to taste
- Filling: Cream cheese or requeijão (optional)
- Breading: 2 eggs, beaten
- Breading: Breadcrumbs as needed
- Breading: Oil for frying as needed
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- 1
Sauté the onion and garlic in a pan with a little oil. Add the shredded chicken, parsley, salt, and pepper. Mix well and stir in the cream cheese if using. Set aside.
- 2
Heat the broth with the butter and a pinch of salt. When it begins to boil, pour in all the flour at once and mix vigorously until you have a smooth, homogeneous dough that pulls away from the sides of the pot. Let it cool slightly.
- 3
Take a piece of dough, form it into a ball, flatten it in your hand, place a little filling in the center, and close it by shaping it into a teardrop or small pear shape.
- 4
Dip the croquettes into the beaten egg and then into the breadcrumbs, ensuring they are well coated.
- 5
Fry in hot oil until golden brown. Drain on paper towels.
💡 Chef's Tip
Serve hot with a spicy sauce or lemon mayonnaise. The dough should be lukewarm to make it easier to handle. For a crispier fry, let the croquettes rest in the refrigerator for a few minutes after breading.
