Name: Spinach & Black Garlic Croquettes
Yield: Serves 4-6
Cuisine: Colombia
Ingredients: 150 g spinach, finely chopped; 1 garlic clove, sliced; 500 ml soy milk; black pepper, to taste; 500 ml vegetable oil, to deep fry; 3 cloves black garlic, sliced; 150 g plain flour; 4 tablespoons olive oil; 3 tablespoons nutritional yeast; ½ onion, finely chopped; 70 g plain flour; ½-1 teaspoon salt; 150 ml soy milk; 150 g breadcrumbs

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Brick Lane Cookbook

By Dina Begum

Published 2018

About

These vegan croquettes from the La Buenaventura stall make for a great starter or snack: crispy with a melting centre and incredible depth of flavour. Black garlic is white garlic which has been aged over heat for several weeks, turning the cloves black and soft with a sweet, tart flavour - think balsamic mixed with tamarind. It’s worth making the effort to find - try www.souschef.co.uk if you can’t find it anywhere else. Don’t leave out the nutritional yeast either: