Recipe: Perfect Yam balls

Yam balls. Using a tablespoon, scoop a little of the mixture at a time and mould into balls. Heat a little oil in a large frying pan, roll the yam balls in the seasoned flour and fry for a few minutes until golden brown. Heat remaining oil and deep-fry yam balls until golden brown.

Shape mixture into balls, with a marshmallow in the center of each. Bake the potatoes until tender, then peel and mash them. Stir in the brown sugar, orange juice, zest and nutmeg. You can have Yam balls using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Yam balls

1. Prepare of Yam.
2. Prepare of Pepper.
3. Prepare of Onion.
4. It's of Oil.
5. You need of Maggi.
6. It's of Salt.
7. You need of Egg.

In a separate bowl, toss the coconut with the sugar and cinnamon. Mold a spoonful of the sweet potatoes around each marshmallow; roll in cornflake crumbs. In a saucepan, bring brown sugar, butter and milk to a boil; pour over the balls. Yam ball is another homemade and street snacks loved by Nigerians, it is also very popular in Ghana and other parts of Africa too.

Yam balls step by step

1. Peel the yam and boil it with salt for 15mins.
2. Wash Onion and pepper and grate it.
3. Smash the yam together with the grated onion and pepper.
   
4. Whisk egg and maggi put some of it and fry it in oil.
5. Your yam balls is ready to eat.

It is delicious and makes perfect snacks for any time of the day. Fluffy mashed yam moulded into balls with other deliciousness and covered in breadcrumbs before deep-fried until golden and crunchy on the outside. Peak Milk makes the yam balls moist and creamy. Scotch bonnet pepper is atarodo, ose oyibo or atarugu. Paprika is sweet peppers that are common outside Nigeria, in Nigeria use tatashe.