Recipe: Yummy 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 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Yam balls

1. Prepare of Yam.
2. You need of Meat.
3. You need of Onions.
4. You need of Spring onions & parsley.
5. Prepare of Scotch bonnet.
6. It's 1 of small tattashe.
7. You need of Ginger and garlic.
8. It's of Eggs.
9. Prepare of Flour.
10. You need of Tumeric & curry.
11. Prepare of Salt & pepper.
12. Prepare of Maggi.
13. It's of Oil for frying.

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 instructions

1. Cook yam with curry salt and maggi. When cooked allow to cool before mashing..
2. Cook meat with onion garlic and seasoning. When cooked grind and keep aside..
3. Add little oil in a pan. Add tumeric, onions, garlic, ginger and fry. Then add scotch bonnet and tattashe. Add seasoning..
4. And yam balls is ready..
5. Put the mashed yam into a big bowl, add in minced meat and fried sauce. Finely chopped spring onion, parsley, salt and pepper. Mix together and taste to adjust seasoning. If it is too dry add 1 egg yolk or 1 spoon meat stock to act as binder..
6. Scoop and roll into balls and toss in flour..
7. Break eggs add spices and seasoning. Dip yam balls into egg and fry till golden brown..

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.