How to make Potato Cheese Balls (Step by step)

Potato cheese balls are wonderful party snacks enjoyed by adults and kids alike. Full of flavor these awesome snacks which can be made by deep frying, pan frying or even baked in oven. The following recipe is about deep frying but for kids I prefer baked in oven only.In fact a lot of times this dish was made for my kids' tiffin. The recipe goes on like this-

Preparation Time: - 20 min

Cooking Time: - 15 min

Servings: - 3~4 persons

Ingredients:

1. 250 gm. Potato
2. 3 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
3. ½  tsp Red Chili flakes or Kashmiri Red chili powder (you can have more according to your taste)
4. ¼ tsp Black pepper crushed
5. ½ tsp Mixed Herbs (Oregano, Thiam and Basil dried)
6. 2 tbsp Coriander leaves chopped
7. Sunflower/olive/canola oil  as much as required for deep frying.
8. 1 ½ tsp Garam masala powder
9. Salt to taste
10. 50 gm. Cubed Mozzarella cheese
11. 2 tbsp Corn flour
12. 2 tbsp Maida or all-purpose flour
13. 6 tbsp Bread crumbs

Preparation: 

1. Wash and boil potatoes such that it is not too soft and mushy. This is because softer potatoes absorb too much bread crumbs and the outcome will be too much crispy.
2. Use fresh ginger and garlic to make the ginger and garlic paste with the help of pestle of mortar. You can use the ready-made paste also.
3. Crush the black pepper with the help of mortar and pestle. Keep aside.
4. Cut the stems and chop the coriander leaves. Keep aside.
5. Smash rusk biscuit to prepare the bread crumbs with the help of pestle and mortar. You can use the ready-made ones though but homemade ones are best for crispiness.
6. Cut the Mozzarella cheese into cubed form and add a little bit of herbs, black pepper and red Chili powder around the cubes. Keep aside.
7. In another bowl make a smooth thin paste of corn flour and Maida by adding little bit water to it.
8. Peel the boiled potatoes and grate the same.
9. Smash and mix thoroughly potato, ginger garlic paste, black pepper, coriander leaves, garam masala, Red chili flakes or powder and Herbs.
10. Make small balls out of the mixture.
11. Flatten the balls in hand and place the cheese cubes in the middle. Gently bring the edges to reconstruct the balls. Caution should be taken not to have any cracks on the surface of the balls.
12. Dip the balls in flour paste and roll them in the breadcrumbs to have a thin coat of bread crumbs around the potatoe cheese balls. Prepare an army of potatoes cheese balls.
13. Take a non-stick Kadahi suitable for deep frying and heat sufficient oil for frying.
14. Once the smoke comes out change the gas burner to medium heat and add the balls in it.
15. Continue frying until the balls become golden brown.
16. Remove the balls from the pan to a plate lined with kitchen towel.

Serve as a starter with any of the coriander chutney or Tomato ketchup. Even I like mayonnaise sauce as well.

Please note that if you want to bake this recipe you should pre heat the oven for 5 minutes at 200’C and bake 15 minutes inside it.

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