These loaded crispy potato balls are properly delicious, a perfect weekend treat dinner that’s a cross between nibbles you can share whilst snuggled up watching a movie with the kids or as one of a few plates you can put on the table if you’ve got people over.
Course: Clean Eating, Dinner, Healthy Snacks
Cuisine: Clean Eating
Keyword: loaded crispy potato balls
Author: Stephanie
Ingredients
6 Large potatoes peeled and diced for mashing
2Wholemeal rollsbreadcrumbed
½CupShredded parmesan
2tbsp Flourfor dusting
2Eggswhisked for dipping
6Rashers smoked baconcut into small pieces
1CupFrozen cranberries
¼CupMaple syrup
¾Cup Fetacrumbled
Salt & pepper
Instructions
Cook and drain the potatoes, and season well, then mash whilst the potatoes are still hot
Leave the potato to cool and then refrigerate for a couple of hours minimum, as the potato needs to be fridge cold for you to be able to work with it
Heat the oven to 180/350
Get a baking sheet and line with a non stick baking sheet, or foil, lightly oiled
Make the potato balls to whatever size you like, and put them on a plate until all the potato has been rolled into balls
Mix your breadcrumbs and shredded parmesan cheese and out into one bowl
Put the whisked egg into another bowl
Put the flour into another bowl
One by one, dip the balls into the flour, then the egg, then the breadcrumbs, making sure they’re each fully covered in crumb, then place them on the baking tray making sure they’re not touching
Once all the balls are coated with the parmesan crumb, put them into the oven for 20-25 minutes until they’re golden and crispy. Take them out and out them to one side
Put your cranberries and maple syrup into a small pan and heat in a low heat until the gently simmering. Using a fork, break the cranberries up and let simmer for 5 minutes. Then take the pan off the heat and let the cranberry sauce cool down
Fry your bacon pieces until crispy
Put your crispy potato balls onto a large plate, sprinkle the crispy bacon over them, dollop your homemade cranberry sauce around the plate and then crumble the Feta cheese over everything. The Feta will start to warm and melt over the hot bacon and potato