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Cheesy Potato Balls
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 7-8 1x
Description
These cheesy potato balls are easy to make and also kid’s friendly snack item that is made with potato, cheese, veggies, and a few aromatic spices mixture and cooked in an appam pan using a little bit of oil. These cheesy potato balls are crispy from the outside and cheesy from the inside. If you are a cheese lover like me, then you should try this recipe.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 large size potato, boiled and mashed
- ½ cup carrot, grated
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese, grated or any kind of your choice
- ½ teaspoon red chilli flakes
- ½ teaspoon dried herbs
- ¾ teaspoon pepper powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic paste
- 2 tablespoons oil
- Salt to taste
Instructions
How to make
- Wash and boil the potato and peel off the skin.
- In a large bowl, add boiled potato. Mash it nicely until smooth.
- Next, add the grated carrots along with spices like pepper powder, chilli flakes, dried herbs, garlic paste, salt to taste, and a little bit of oil to knead the mixture.
- Mix all the ingredients well and keep them aside.
- Apply little oil to your palm.
- Take a small portion of the potato mixture and shape it into a ball.
- Gently flatten it to form a thin disc.
- Then, take about 2 teaspoons of grated cheese and keep it in the center of the mashed potato disc.
- Gently fold the edges and make small walnut size balls.
- Repeat the same process with the remaining mixture.
- Place the Appam pan on heat.
- Check, if the pan is well heated by drizzling some water. Once the water sizzled, pour 3-4 drops of oil in each mold of the pan and place all the balls one by one.
- Reduce the heat to medium.
- Sprinkle few drops of oil over each ball.
- Cook the potato balls at medium flame and fry until golden and crisp.
- Flip them over and fry the other side too.
- Make sure that both sides are crisp.
- Transfer it onto a plate lined with absorbent paper.
- Serve with tomato ketchup or coriander chutney and with tea or coffee.
Notes
- Make sure, the potato is mashed well. You can use a potato masher to mash the potato until smooth.
- Feel free to use flavorings as per your choice. Instead of dried herbs, you can use coriander, cilantro leaves or any greens.
- If you like, you can also deep fry and bake them into the oven.
- I have used an Appam pan to fry cheese balls with less oil.
- You can pick cheddar, pizza cheese, or any other kind of stringy cheese to stuff inside the cheese balls.
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Category: Appetizers & snack
- Cuisine: Fusion
