croqueta

plural croquetas

1. A Cuban croquette, usually made of ham, beef, chicken, or fish, and generally based on flour rather than potatoes.
2. A Spanish croquette, a typical tapas dish.

   The restaurant’s croqueta, or savory fritters, are served piping hot, with a molten core.

   2007 February 18, “Hail to the Menus”, in New York Times

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   Then again this is Mayfair. A big, rustling bowl of deep-fried squid with a salty chilli kick cost £7.50; a generous pile of jamon croquetas, the shells giving way to something creamy and intensely hammy within, was 50p less.

   2011 December 18, Jay Rayner, “Restaurant review: Aurelia”, in The Observer, →ISSN