Spinach Cheese Balls

Spinach Cheese Balls is a quick snack made with basic ingredients available at home. These spinach cheese balls are very easy to make and can be enjoyed as tea time evening snack, appetizer before lunch or dinner. This recipe being filled with cheese so the kids will love this dish too.

Spinach Cheese Balls

Ingredients

• Half cup spinach puree
• Salt as per taste
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• Half cup semolina (rawa/sooji)
• 1-2 tsp corn flour
• 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese (room temperature)
• 1 tsp chili flakes
• 1 tsp oregano
• Oil for frying
• Half cup semolina (for coating balls)

Recipe

Take bread crumbs in a mixing bowl add sooji and corn flour to it and mix well. Add salt as per taste and add spinach puree to it. Mix well and form a dough of it.

If you feel the mixture is too soft you can add some bread crumbs of semolina for binding.

Take mozzarella cheese in another mixing bowl and add chili flakes and oregano to it and mix well.

Make small balls of the cheese mixture.

Now apply little oil to your palm and take a small part of spinach mixture and make a disc over your palm. Put the cheese ball in the center and close all the sides of spinach disc. Gently roll the ball. Make all the remaining balls following the same step.

Take semolina in a small plate and coat all the spinach balls from all the sides.

Heat oil in a wok or pan and slowly dip the balls in the oil for frying. Fry the balls till they are golden brown in color and become crispy.

Serve hot with ketchup.

*Note - You can adjust the quantity of rawa and corn flour for binding depending upon the quantity you are making.

*Note - Quantity of chili flakes depends upon your taste.

*Note - As the cheese contains salt in it so we don't need to add extra salt in cheese stuffing.