Pumpkin, leek and tofu croquettes

Name: Pumpkin, leek and tofu croquettes
Total time: 165 min
Yield: For 4 people
Ingredients: 250 gr. pumpkin; 1 medium leek; 150 gr. tofu; 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 1/2 teaspoon curry; extra virgin olive oil; 1 pinch of pepper; 1 pinch of salt; 80 gr. wholemeal flour; 220 ml. soy milk; 1 pinch of nutmeg; bread crumbs

45 m*Total time

EasyDifficulty

4Servings

*Plus 2 hours of resting time

This recipe is perfect for treating yourself, especially in the autumn and winter months, since one of its main ingredients is the star of the season: pumpkin.

Besides being delicious for its sweet flavor, pumpkin is rich in beta-carotene (hence its orange color) and vitamin C, and also contains B vitamins (including folic acid) and vitamin E. For all these reasons, in addition to being good for the skin, it is considered an anticancer, anti-inflammatory food that lowers cholesterol and improves eyesight and heart health.

Notes

If you don't want to use wheat flour, you can use rice or corn flour.

If you prefer, you can substitute soy milk you can substitute rice milk.

To coat you can use breadcrumbs of corn or wheat bread.

You can also choose to make the croquettes in the oven so that they are lighter and contain fewer calories.

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Step 1
Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds, wash well and chop into pieces not too large to cook before.
Step 2
We wash the leek to remove the earth you may have and cut it into thin slices.
Step 3
We put a little oil in a large pan and put it to heat. When the oil is hot (without getting to smoke), take the leek and, when it is poached, add the pumpkin. Let it be done with the fire not too strong so it does not burn. We will watch and, if we see that it stays dry, add a little water to finish cooking.

Step 4
When we see that the pumpkin is tender, we toss the tofu that previously we will have grated or crumbled with the hands and we will give some returns in the frying pan so that it is mixed with the sofrito.
Step 5
Add the salt, curry and soy sauce and stir all the dough to mix the flavors well.
Step 6
Next, we toss the flour and we give some turns so that it is roasted a little in the sofrito.
Step 7
We add the soy milk little by little and we go around so that the dough thickens. Here we will also season with a bit of nutmeg to give flavor.
Step 8
Remove the pan from the heat and let the dough cool. Then we pass the dough to a dish or plate and keep a couple of hours in the fridge so we can work the dough more easily and to make it more consistent.
Step 9
When it has the desired texture, we put bread crumbs in a dish and we will take a little dough with wet hands (thus the dough will not stick in the hands) and proceed to batter.
Step 10
Finally, we pour oil in a pan (enough to make the croquettes are bathed and fried well on all sides), we turn them over and, when we see that they are uniformly browned, we place them on a plate or tray where we will have placed kitchen paper to absorb the excess oil.