"Iberico" ham flavored white sauce rolls

"Iberico" ham flavored white sauce rolls

When I was a kid no birthday celebration was complete without eating little white sauce croquettes. I have never met a kid refusing to eat them. Many generations of Spaniards have actually been fed on croquettes; They are cheap but delicious.
White sauce or bechamel sauce as we call it combines to perfection with a wide range of products. You can mix it with meat like ham or chicken, with fish like hake or cod or with vegetables like spinach. Anything you think of will probably work fine with this sauce; just experiment...
I ignore the origin of this sauce. Even though the word "bechamel" sounds french, the Italians use it on their lasagna and the Spaniards on the "croquetas". Lets just say that it´s one of the most important sauces in the world and that I love it.
This time, I have flavored the bechamel sauce with "iberico" ham and I have wrapped it in Thai rice flour pancakes to make it a little bit different from the traditional Spanish croquettes.

INGREDIENTS:

50gr of flour

100gr of butter

1 pint of milk

pinch of salt

pinch of grounded black pepper

pinch of nutmeg

one piece from the bone of an "iberico" ham

100gr of shredded ham

melt the butter on a  frying pan and add the flour. Stir until they are mixed and let the flour cook until it starts to get brown.

On a different saucepan I heated the milk with the piece of "iberico ham" until the milk got flavored. Then I added the milk to the flour very slowly while using a whisker to mix the ingredients. I Added  then the shredded ham and seasoned with the spices as to my liking. "Iberico" ham is already quite salty so I was careful with the salt . I kept stirring the sauce until it got thick enough and then I took it of the heat and let it cool.

Now, I just have to put the sauce on to some rice pastry and wrap it to make those nice rolls. 

I like to steam the rolls, but this time I put them in a pan with very little oil and fried them at a high heat.