- 3 (1 pound) Red potatoeslarge, raw and peeled
- 3.5 oz Mozzarellacut in ½-inch cubes
- ½ cup Parmesan cheesefreshly grated
- Black pepperto taste
- Saltto taste
For the Breading:
- 3 Eggs
- ½ cup All-purpose flour
- 2 cups Breadcrumbs
- 1 tbsp Ground paprika
Potato Cheese Balls
Do I really need to describe these Potato Cheese Balls? Because I don’t even know where to begin. Breaded and crispy mashed potato balls with Parmesan cheese in the mixture and perfect mozzarella cubes in the center that melt and ooze with each bite. Everything you need for the best, cheesiest potato dish and when I start with one, I just can’t stop!
To make Potato Cheese Balls, you will need the following ingredients:
Steps to make Potato Cheese Balls
1 | Prepare potatoes | |
Soak 3 large and peeled potatoes in a bowl of cold water to remove starch then chop into big chunks. | ||
2 | Boil potatoes | 20 |
In a large pot of salted water, boil the potato chunks until softened. | ||
3 | Prepare mozzarella | 2 |
Drain 3.5 ounces of ½-inch mozzarella cubes on a paper towel. | ||
4 | Prepare breading | 2 |
In 3 separate bowls, prepare the egg by whisking 3 eggs together in 1 bowl. Then, another bowl with ½ cup of flour and a third bowl with 2 cups of breadcrumbs, 1 tablespoon of paprika and some salt and pepper combined. | ||
5 | Mash potatoes | 3 |
Drain the boiled potatoes and place in a large mixing bowl. Use a potato ricer or masher and mash the potatoes. | ||
6 | Add Parmesan | 2 |
Add ½ cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese and season with salt and pepper then mash to combine well. | ||
7 | Prepare potato balls | 3 |
Use a tablespoon of the mixture to prepare about 25 potato and cheese balls about ½ ounce in weight. | ||
8 | Add mozzarella | 3 |
Gently make a small hole in the center of each ball and place a mozzarella cube inside each one. | ||
9 | Bread balls | 5 |
To bread the balls, dip each one into the flour bowl, then the beaten eggs and the breadcrumb mix to generously coat. Then dip once again into beaten eggs and finally into breadcrumbs mix. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment paper. | ||
10 | Refrigerate | 5 |
Refrigerate for a few minutes until the oil is hot. | ||
11 | Heat oil | 3 |
In a large pot over medium heat, heat vegetable oil until it reaches 350 °F. | ||
12 | Deep fry balls | 20 |
Working in batches, deep fry the potato balls for about 4 minutes until golden brown, taking care not to over fry and the mozzarella cheese doesn’t ooze out. Drain on paper towels. | ||
13 | Serve | |
Season with salt and pepper and serve hot with your favorite dipping sauce. | ||
Recipe Reviews
Amazing, love me some cheeseballs on a game night!
Didn't need 3 eggs ended up only needing 2 and was fine.
Too much potatos i had so much extra!! But totally fine if you have a huge family or something though in my case I got potatoes for the next two days lol.
Not my personal favorite because it's just cheese and bread together with barely any spices but it's not bad if you need something fast and easy.
Nothing more than mozzarella sticks but as balls.
Very bland and not much flavor plus kinda dry too.
Fast, fun and no mess to make, finger food is the best kinda food when you're having a party and these were a huge crowd pleaser for my guest :)
Okay mine exploded whats up with that?
Took me basically no time at all to make these tasty bad boys super happy!
Made my own bread crumbs and everything this was really tasty and simple to make, i just dried up some rohlik bread, shaved it and wallah for anyone curious about how i made the bread crumbs.
Cool idea going to try putting some small shredded pieces of meat on the inside too.
Dipped it in some sourcream on the side delicious !!!
These were great, slightly hard to make because the cheese didn't want to stay in some of them and they exploded, but were tasty nonetheless.
Actually burned myself a bit cause the popping oil lol yummy cheesy balls tho.
Kids love this for lunch reminds them of mozzarella sticks but easier to make.
Red pepper kinda made this spicer than expected but it was good.
Loved every bite of these mini cheese balls.
Potato cheese balls = my new top 5 meal besides the stuffed broccoli chicken.
Easily burned if you don't watch the time! Be warned.
Mozzarella is actually extremely expensive where I live so I won't be able to make this often but its worth it at least once or twice a month for sure.
who doesn't like cheese?! I love it!
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