Potato Cheese Balls

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Quantity: Serves 3

Ingredients:

Potatoes - 3 large boiled and mashed

Fresh green peas - 1/2 cup

Onion - 1 medium chopped

Spring Onion – 1 strand

Chilly sauce – 1 tsp

Salt - to taste

Pepper Powder – ½ tsp

CornFlour - 2 tblsp

Water – ¼ cup

Breadcrumbs - 1 cup

Mozarella Cheese - cut into small cubes

Oil - for Deep Frying

Method:

• Boil potatoes, peel and mash them finely.
• Heat a tsp of oil in a pan, add onions, peas and spring onion leaves and stir until the peas gets soft.
• Add Chilly sauce, salt, pepper and stir well. Finally add mashed potatoes and mix well. Turn down the flame and allow it to cool.
• Make a thin batter using corn flour and water. Keep aside.
• Cut cheese into small cubes and keep aside.
• Make the potato mixture into balls and insert the cheese cube in middle of the ball. Ensure that the cheese is not seen outside.
• Dip it in the corn flour batter and roll it in the bread crumbs.
• Deep fry them in hot oil and serve hot with ketchup

My notes:

• Make sure the corn flour batter is thin. It is just to bind the bread crumbs.
• Heat the oil in high flame and once the oil is ready, turn the flame to medium. Else the balls will be burnt and become dark brown.
• If you do not have bread crumbs handy, you can just crumble few rusk pieces and use it, though it tastes little different.
• Easy way to make bread crumbs is to put bread in a pop up toaster and crumble them.