Italian cuisine · Breakfast & Eggs

Mozzarella in Carrozza

Bread slices filled with mozzarella, dipped in egg and milk and pan-fried until golden brown.

Ingredients · for 2 servings

• 8 slices white bread
• 250 g mozzarella
• 2 eggs
• 100 ml milk
• 4 tbsp flour
• 80 g breadcrumbs
• Salt, pepper
• 200 ml oil for frying

Instructions

1. Slice the mozzarella 5 mm thick and drain on paper towels for 10 min., or the coating will turn soggy later.
2. Trim the crusts off the white bread, sandwich mozzarella between pairs of slices, season with salt and pepper and press the edges firmly together all around.
3. Whisk the eggs with the milk and season lightly with salt; put the flour and breadcrumbs on two separate plates alongside.
4. Coat the sandwiches first in flour, then dip for 30 sec. in the egg-milk mixture, and finally roll them all over in the breadcrumbs.
5. Heat the oil in a pan to 170°C and fry the sandwiches for 2–3 min. per side until deep golden brown and the cheese starts to ooze.
6. Drain briefly on paper towels, cut diagonally in half and serve hot right away – only then does the mozzarella stretch into strings.