Crunchy Tasty Yam Balls Recipe

Name: Crunchy Tasty Yam Balls Recipe
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 5 people
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 1 tuber of yam; Salt; Seasoning; Pepper (red scotch bonnet); Onions; 3 Eggs; Minced meat (optional); Bread crumbs (optional)

Surayya Hussaini Maikabi @_Surayya_H

I had yam in my kitchen store for a month now. And I had Bread crumbs stored in my freezer for three months now. So i decided to use both ingredients for my old meet new recipe🤩
Try it out

Surayya Hussaini Maikabi @_Surayya_H

I had yam in my kitchen store for a month now. And I had Bread crumbs stored in my freezer for three months now. So i decided to use both ingredients for my old meet new recipe🤩
Try it out

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Ingredients

45mins

5 people

1tuber of yam
Salt
Seasoning
Pepper (red scotch bonnet)
Onions
3Eggs
Minced meat (optional)
Bread crumbs (optional)

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Steps

45mins

1

Boil and cook yam until soft. Add salt into cooking yam. After cooked till soft, seive yam and allow to cool
2

In your masher or local mortar and pestle, put the boiled yam, pepper, onions and maggi seasoning, and mash until smooth. Do not add water during mashing.
3

Transfer the mashed yam into a bowl and Add fried minced meat if you want into the mixture and mix.
4

Roll the mixture into balls and keep aside
5

In a separate bowl, whisk three eggs and in another bowl you can keep breadcrumbs if you desire, breadcrumbs adds crunchy taste to the yamballs
6

Preheat oil. Dip the naked yam balls into the egg bowl first, cover it fully then transfer to breadcrumbs bowl then dip into the oil and fry
7

Fry until golden brown. Strain the yamballs in a paper towel or seive to remove excess oil of frying. ENJOY