Recipe: Delicious 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 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Yam balls

1. Prepare 5 of scotch bonnet pepper chopped and.
2. Prepare Half of tuber of yam.
3. You need 1 of large onion finely chopped.
4. Prepare of Lightly fried.
5. It's 1 teaspoon of curry.
6. It's 2 of Maggi cubes.
7. You need 3 of eggs beaten.
8. Prepare Half of can of evaporated milk.
9. It's 1 cup of flour.
10. Prepare to taste of Salt.
11. It's of Vegetable 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. Peel and cut yam into smaller pieces,add salt and boil until soft.Mashed the cooked yam until smooth..
2. Add the milk,pepper,onions,Maggi and curry,mix thoroughly and mound into balls.Coat each ball with flour..
3. Beat the egg,add a little salt to the egg, deep each yam ball in the egg..
4. Heat the oil and deep fry the balls few at a time until golden brown.Drain and serve hot with pepper sauce if desired..
   

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.