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 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Yam balls

1. You need of Peeled and diced Yam.
2. Prepare of Blended scotch bonnet.
3. You need of Chopped onion.
4. You need of Chopped red pepper.
5. You need of Chopped spring onion.
6. You need of Maggi.
7. You need of Salt.
8. It's of Eggs.
9. Prepare of Bread crumbs.

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. Peak Milk makes the yam balls moist and creamy.

Yam balls step by step

1. Wash yam with clean water and set on fire,add salt and cover to let it cook..
   
   
2. When it's tender off the fire and separate then from water, put in a clean bowl. Mash with a potato masher or pound..
   
   
3. Add in the pepper,chopped onion and spring onion mix very well..
4. Add in seasonings and mix again. Add oil and grease hand with oil then mould into round shape..
5. Break eggs in a bowl add seasonings and whisked. Egg wash yam balls in whisked egg and then coat with bread crumbs..
6. Deep fry in hot oil. Remove when it's golden brown..
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Scotch bonnet pepper is atarodo, ose oyibo or atarugu. Paprika is sweet peppers that are common outside Nigeria, in Nigeria use tatashe. When using tatashe, you may want to skit the atarodo, ose oyibo or atarugu (scotch bonnet pepper). Yam ball is another homemade and street snacks loved by Nigerians, it is also very popular in Ghana and other parts of Africa too. It is delicious and makes perfect snacks for any time of the day.