Chicken croquettes with champignons

Minced chicken croquettes with whole mushrooms inside are something new and unusual! Deep-fried chicken balls with a golden brown crust not only look appetizing and spectacular, they are also very tasty. Be sure to cook such an original dish!

Ingredients

• Chicken fillet - 400 g
• Champignons (small) - 11-12 pcs.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Flour - 1.5 tbsp. spoons
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Breadcrumbs - 5 tbsp. spoons
• Salt - 1/2 teaspoon (to taste)
• Ground black pepper - 1/3 teaspoon (to taste)
• Sunflower oil (for frying) - 200 ml (as needed)

Directions

1. Prepare the necessary ingredients.
2. Rinse the chicken fillet and pat dry with paper towels.
3. Peel the onion and cut into several pieces. Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces and pass through a meat grinder along with onions.
4. Pour salt, ground pepper and 2 tbsp into minced chicken. spoons of breadcrumbs.
5. Thoroughly mix the minced meat until smooth.
6. Wipe the mushrooms with a damp kitchen towel, remove dirt. Remove the skin from the caps.
7. (It is better not to wash the mushrooms, but to clean them.)
8. For breading, pour the flour into one bowl, the remaining breadcrumbs (3 tablespoons) into the second, and beat the egg into the third bowl and shake it with a fork with a pinch of salt.
9. Prepare croquettes. To do this, with your hands moistened in water, take a piece of minced meat and form a cake out of it.
10. Put one mushroom in the middle of the minced tortilla.
11. Wrap the mushroom in a mincemeat cake and roll into a ball.
12. Form croquettes in the same way with the remaining mince and mushrooms. I got 11 croquettes.
13. Bread the croquettes. To do this, first roll the croquette in flour.
14. Then dip into the egg.
15. And then coat in breadcrumbs.
16. Prepare as many croquettes in this way as you plan to fry in one go.
17. Heat a sufficient amount of sunflower oil in a deep frying pan, saucepan or cauldron. Dip breaded croquettes in hot oil and cook over medium heat, turning often, until golden brown.
18. Put the finished croquettes on a napkin. Prepare the remaining croquettes in the same way.
19. Chicken croquettes with champignons are ready!
20. Serve hot chicken croquettes with mashed potatoes.
21. Bon appetit!