The Secret to Crisp Arancini (Rice Balls) With a Molten Center: Sushi Rice — seriouseats.com

Get Recipe: Rich and Creamy Saffron Arancini With Mozzarella Two unusual ingredients—sushi rice and bechamel—lead to arancini with a thin, super-crisp crust and a molten interior. [Photographs: Daniel Gritzer] Food writers spend a lot of time waxing poetic about magical childhood food memories, and attempts at recreating—but never quite capturing—that original ideal experience. But sometimes the opposite happens. Sometimes we eat bad versions of dishes in our childhood and we somehow end up accepting it, as if the bad version is all that dish can ever hope to be. I had that problem with arancini, the deep-fried Sicilian rice balls.

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