potato balls
This is a kid food recipe for ‘vegetarian croquettes’. I prefer to call them by their God given name, POTATO BALLS. Who doesn’t like potato rolled in more potato? Yes, I’ve got my hand raised…
Ingredients:
2 large baking potatoes
1 Tablespoon butter
salt
1 medium carrot
1/4 cup frozen,chopped broccoli
1/3 cup frozen corn
some cubes of cheddar cheese (if you so desire)
potato chips!! (crushed)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Let me start by telling you, the frozen food thing is a huge factor here as far as time saving. The veggies are cooked and simply need to be defrosted. As far as the carrot, let me give you a secret tip for steaming a carrot without any effort at all. Chop the carrot into itsy bitsy pieces. Put in a bowl with water covering about half of the carrot pieces. Cover with plastic wrap, leaving a little bit open as a vent. Now microwave for about 1 minute. There you go. Steamed carrots.
Bring a pot of water to a boil. Cut the potato into chunks, boil for about 10 minutes – drain.
Transfer to a bowl, mash with a masher or fork, add butter and salt.
Add in the defrosted corn, broccoli and “steamed” *wink wink* carrots. Mix up into a nice mash.
Now the fun. Form little balls and put a small square of cheese in the middle. (If you are going vegan, leave that out obviously). Cover it up and roll into crushed potato chips.
Place on a baking sheet, and bake for 15 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes. The potato chips will be crispy and the cheese will be…cheesey.
Sure these are ‘kid’ food, but they are tasty and I’m sure if you spiced them up a bit they’d be even tastier. Also if you have an aversion to potato chips (you heathen) then I guess you could try breadcrumbs, but I guarantee it won’t taste quite as yummy.
