While working on a corporate consultancy project I created an interesting little tapa. One of the most famous tapas in Spain is the Croquetta de Jámon, which is basically deep fried bechamel with Jamon. You can buy these in pretty much every tapas bar and quality is judged by how fluid it is on the inside without breaking the outer layer of bread crumbs.

So basically this started out as a joke, I was trying to combine the exact flavour of a hot-dog inside of a croquetta using proper hot dog sausages and all the trimmings (complete with ketchup and mustard). To finish the total hot-dog experience I used hot dog buns as the crumbs for the outside as they have such a particular taste and also some crispy Asian style fried onions. But of course an essential touch for the hot-dog is squeezing the ketchup and mustard on the top (which always touches your top lip first which you have to lick off), so for this I texturized both ketchup and Mustard to the exact same viscosity and put it in a tube so it can be squeezed out like toothpaste making a perfect line with half of each in the same line.

Success! The perfect hotdog inside of a croquetta, not be be eaten at a ball game as they are dangerously fluid

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