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. 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). Here is the recipe to make three flavours of these chewy balls, using purple yam, yam and taro. You can cook Yam balls using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Yam balls

1. It's of Yam.
2. It's of Salt and seasonings.
3. Prepare of Flour.
4. Prepare of Fish or meat (optional).

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. Drain and mash with butter, sugar, milk, salt and lemon zest. Shape mixture into balls, with a marshmallow in the center of each.

Yam balls step by step

1. Ki tafasa doya bayan an fere ki sa pinch of gishiri to taste.
2. Ki soya kayan miya da fish ko meat.
3. Mash ur yam kar ki bar big lumps.
4. Add kayan miya da kika soya and mix har ya hade.
5. Mould in to ball ki tsoma a kwai da flour.
6. In zaki soya kayan miya ki sa seasonings da yawa so that in kika sa doya yayi balance.

Bake the potatoes until tender, then peel and mash them. Stir in the brown sugar, orange juice, zest and nutmeg. 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.