Japanese Crab Cream Croquette

Ingredients:

• 6 tbsp crab meat (remove excess water)
• 2 white button mushrooms (coarsely chopped)
• 1 small onion (finely chopped)
• 1 garlic clove (finely chopped)
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp white ground pepper
• 3 tbsp lightly salted butter
• 4 tbsp plain flour
• 1 cup of milk
• 1 egg yolk
• oil for deep frying

Skin:

• 1 cup of plain flour
• 1 egg white
• 1 cup of bread crumbs

How to:

• melt 1 tbsp butter in a frying-pan. Add in onion and garlic. Stir-fry till fragrant
• add in mushrooms and crab meat. Stir for 1 minute and set aside
• melt the remaining butter. Add in the flour. Slowly pour in the milk while stirring. Add in egg-yolk. Stir till forming a dough
• combine with the previous ingredients
• coat your palms with flour. Take a spoonful and round it. Dip in egg white and roll over bread-crumbs
• heat your oil (~1 inch deep) for 1 minute. Deep fry till golden brown
• serve with Japanese mayonnaise for 2