Recipes: Simple potato balls
Food / / December 19, 2019
If you are looking for the use of mashed potato remnants of yesterday's dinner and you want to turn a side dish to a new dish, the ideal option would be such balls. To supplement the potato base can be almost anything, but we stopped on the option with cheese and herbs.
Ingredients:
- 720 g of mashed potatoes;
- 80 g of cheese;
- 1 tablespoon fresh dill;
- 1 tablespoon green onions;
- ½ cup flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 ¼ cup bread crumbs.
Of course, you can specially prepare mashed potatoes just for this appetizer, but in this case, make sure that it is the most chilled.
In addition to the mash, as we already noted above, in the balls, you can add anything you like: hard cheeses, slices of bacon and ham, roasted vegetables, spices, dried herbs, garlic and even pieces fish.
If you use fresh mashed potatoes, it is likely that it is not too good holds form. In such a case, besides a variety of flavoring additives, the ingredients should be added to the flour, up to 1 cup. The amount of flour is determined individually: finished mixture must be formed into a ball and not to be overly sticky.
When the potato mixture is ready, prepare the ingredients for breading: flour, beaten eggs and bread crumbs. The very same potato mixture divide into portions. Practice has shown that it is better to divide the mixture on medium-sized ball 20-24: because they are evenly browned at the center.
After forming balls of mashed each floured, dipped in egg and breading. If lipkovata mass, the pre sprinkle flour your hands and they have the form of beads.
Breaded balls immersed in the heated oil abundance and fried for 3-4 minutes until golden hue expressed. Alternative roasted - bake for 7-10 minutes at 200 degrees.
Potato balls - ideal snack to beer, so it is best to submit a favorite sauce and glass foam.