Veggie cheese balls are a nice snack item for kids after school. It can also be used as a finger food for small gatherings. These veggie cheese balls are made with mix of vegetables, spices, cheese, deep fried and served with chutney
Ingredients
For veggies
- 3 Boiled & mashed potatoes
- 1/3 cup Red beetroot fine shredded
- 1 medium size Carrot fine shredded
- 1/3 cup Cabbage fine shredded
- 4-5 French beans fine shredded
- 1 medium size Onion fine chopped
- 1 tsp Garlic & ginger paste each
- 12 Mozzarella cheese cubes
- Some mint leaves for garnishing
- some tomato ketchup
For spices
- 1/2 tsp Fennel seeds
- 1/4 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp Coriander and Cumin powder each
- 2 tsp Chaat masala powder
- 1/4 tsp Hot red chili powder
- 1/4 tsp Dry roasted cumin & red chili powder
- 1 lemon juice
- Salt to taste
- 2 tsp Oil for cooking
- 1 cup Oil for deep frying
- some coriander leaves chopped
for covering
- 2 cup Bread crumb
- 1/2 cup All purpose flour
- 1 tbsp Fine rava or Sooji
- 1/4 tsp Baking powder
Instructions
- Boil the potatoes and mash it. Cut all vegetables very fine. Keep it aside.
- Heat oil in a kadhai or deep pan, add cumin seeds and fennel seeds into it. Once it starts to crackle, add onion, ginger & garlic paste and little salt. Saute till slightly golden color.
- Once onion gets golden color, add all fine chopped vegetables and saute until vegetables gets tender at medium to high heat. Add all spices, coriander and cumin powder, chili powder, chaat masala, turmeric powder, roasted cumin and red chili powder. Saute it for 3 minutes. Once it's done, turn off the heat.
- Add boiled and mashed potato, coriander leaves and 1/4 cup bread crumbs into it and mix very well. Add salt to your taste. Let the mixture cool down.
- Make lemon size round balls from the mixture, and stuff a small piece of Mozzarella cheese cube in the center. Make all veg balls following the same process.
- Roll the balls in to bread crumbs.
- To prepare the covering batter, add all purpose flour, rava, baking powder and little water and make a medium thick batter. Dip the veggie balls in to the batter and then coat with bread crumbs again. Make all balls following the same process. Keep it aside.
- Heat oil in a deep frying pan at high heat. Once it is hot enough bring the temperature at medium heat. Add the veggie balls in to hot oil. Fry till golden color.
- Remove the veggie balls and place it on tissue paper to absorb excess oil.
- Veggie cheese balls are ready to be served.
- Serve as a snacks for your kids or serve as a finger food for your party.
Recipe Notes
(1)..Leaving boiled potatoes in water for longer will result in potatoes absorbing high amount of moisture, so make sure you remove the potatoes immediately after boiling, by rinsing pressure cooker in cold water to release the pressure quickly.
(2).. Don't drop the veggie balls in to oil if oil is not hot enough otherwise the balls will break.
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Hello Geeta I tried your cheese balls receipe and my kids loved it. Thanks for the wonderful recipe as this is a keeper . My kids devoured them.
Thanks again Urmi for sharing this. Kids have lot of demand now a days and we need to experiment with them to keep their satisfied.
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I don’t have it yet on my blog site. Would share soon.
Hi Geetha, I liked your site and presented nicely with step by step procedure in making recipes and also very helpful tips at the end for each recipe.
I have query here on this recipe.Once you break the veg ball how to get the soft and stretchier consistency cheese in that not like the same shape what we put in the veg ball?
Thank you so much Valli. You can use shredded mozzarela cheese instead and that should give you soft and stretchier consistency.
Thank you Geeta will try with shredded mozzarela cheese
WOW!!This one is mouth watering