Recipe: Appetizing 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. Drain on kitchen paper and keep them warm while cooking the rest of the mixture.

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. You can cook Yam balls using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Yam balls

1. You need of Yam.
2. It's of Onion.
3. Prepare of Pepper.
4. Prepare of Seasonings.
5. You need of Minced Meat or fish or sardine (optional).
6. It's of Eggs.
7. It's of Oil for frying.

It is delicious and makes perfect snacks for any time of the day. Here is the recipe to make three flavours of these chewy balls, using purple yam, yam and taro. All three flavours follow the same instructions but the measurement of ingredients varies because of the water content of the root vegetables. In fact, we found that you don't need to add water to the yam one, but more tapioca flour is needed.

Yam balls step by step

1. Peel the yam and cook with some Salt till soft.
2. Mash the yam with mortar and add the blended onion and pepper.
3. Add minced meat or fish (optional).
4. Add seasoning and 1 egg then mix thoroughly.
5. Start rolling it into small balls.
6. Deep in whisked egg before frying in a hot pot of oil.

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