Marchette Croquettes Recipe

Ingredients for Marchette Croquettes

• 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
• 4 tablespoons cooked spinach
• 3 small cooked potatoes
• 1 tablespoon chopped onion
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 2 hard-cooked eggs
• 1 raw egg
• Breadcrumbs
• vegetable shortening flake pastry

Instructions

1. Rub spinach and potatoes through wire sieve; fry onion in vegetable shortening, add spinach and potatoes, season with salt and pepper, fry a few minutes, then set aside till cold.
2. Roll out pastry, cut out some small rounds, then place spoonful of vegetable mixture on half the number of pastry rounds, place slice of hard-cooked egg on each, brush round edges with beaten egg, press other round on this, dip in egg and breadcrumbs and fry in hot vegetable shortening.
3. Serve hot.
4. Sufficient for six croquettes.