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Mozzarella-stuffed Deep Fried Mashed Potato Balls

05/24/2011 //  by Connie Veneracion

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A finger food that should be served with good white wine, this dish of deep fried mashed potato balls stuffed with mozzarella was inspired by Scotch eggs. If you haven’t heard of Scotch eggs, they are hard-boiled eggs wrapped with ground meat then deep fried. When sliced, you get a cross section of egg yolk, egg white and meat. I tried making Scotch eggs a couple of times and the ground meat coating always burst during frying. I’m more successful with mashed potatoes and cheese.

These mozzarella stuffed deep fried mashed potato balls contains no meat. Just cubes of mozzarella cheese wrapped with cooled mashed potatoes that are coated with panko (Japanese bread crumbs) before going into the hot oil.

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The three main ingredients: cheese, mashed potatoes and panko. If you’ve been using regular bread crumbs all your life, try panko (Japanese bread crumbs). It’ll change the way you think about bread crumbs.

Mozzarella-stuffed Deep Fried Mashed Potato Balls

Your mashed potatoes should be stiff so that when stuffed with a mozzarella cube, you can wrap the mashed potatoes around it and still hold its shape.

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Mozzarella-stuffed Deep Fried Mashed Potato Balls

Once all the mozzarella cubes have been wrapped in mashed potatoes, the balls are rolled in panko.

Mozzarella-stuffed Deep Fried Mashed Potato Balls

Then fry. In batches, if necessary to ensure that the temperature of the oil does not drop too much.

Mozzarella-stuffed Deep Fried Mashed Potato Balls

It takes less than a minute to get the mozzarella balls to to turn golden and crisp. Drain well before serving.

Mozzarella-stuffed Deep Fried Mashed Potato Balls

Mozzarella stuffed deep fried mashed potato balls

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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 minute
Total Time: 11 minutes
Servings: 10 balls
Author: Connie Veneracion

Ingredients

  • 1 and 1/2 cups mashed potatoes (see recipe) I added chopped parsley to mine) which must be rather stiff for shaping
  • 10 pieces 1/2-inch cubes of mozzarella cheese
  • 1/2 cup panko
  • 2 cups vegetable oil for deep frying

Instructions

  • Start heating the vegetable oil in a wok.
  • Set aside a teaspoonful of mashed potato.
  • Take a heaping teaspoonful of mashed potato and form into a ball.
  • Using your thumb, make a deep indentation at the center then push in a mozzarella cube.
  • Lightly push the mashed potato upward to cover the cheese.
  • Repeat until you have 10 mozzarella stuffed balls.
  • Roll the mashed potato balls in panko lightly patting to make the bread crumbs stick.
  • Take the reserved mashed potato, form into a ball and drop in the hot oil. If it browns too fast, turn down the heat and wait a few minutes for the temperature to drop a bit.
  • If the ball sinks and stays there, the oil is not hot enough. Turn up the heat and wait a minute or two for the temperature to rise.
  • Drop the mozzarella stuffed mashed potato balls one by one into the hot oil. It should take less than a minute for the bread crumbs to turn crisp and golden brown, and for the mozzarella to melt inside the mashed potato.
  • Scoop out the fried mashed potato balls, let any excess oil drip then serve the mozzarella balls at once.
  • Mozzarella-stuffed Deep Fried Mashed Potato Balls

Notes

The frying is only meant to melt the cheese and make the bread coating crisp. There is really nothing to “cook” because all the ingredients are already ready to eat. So, don’t fry the balls for too long. Don’t think that it is safer to cook longer at a low temperature rather than risk burning the bread crumbs with a too high temperature. That’s why it is important to test the oil first before dropping in the cheese stuffed balls. The quick frying is essential so that the mashed potato’s texture stays light and fluffy. If fried for too long, the potato will soak up too much oil. Worse, the mozzarella might start oozing out of the mashed potato.
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Comments

  1. Rush Dizon

    05/24/2011 at 11:45 am

    perfect timing! my sisters and I are planning to go picnic over our parent’s house, they requested for cordon bleu (their all-time favorite), but i’m still considering giving them other menu for the weekend. i think i’m going to surprise them with this one and the chili fries i’ve read a while ago. too much potato eh? but they will surely love this! esp. our kids. hahah! thanks for sharing! God bless you more!

    • Connie

      05/24/2011 at 11:48 am

      In our house, there’s no such thing as too much potatoes and cheese hehehehe

  2. rinz

    05/24/2011 at 12:16 pm

    Hi Connie,

    This is great especially for my family who loves snacking every now and then. At sa aking bunso na cheese-lover. Thanks again!

  3. Eds

    05/24/2011 at 4:53 pm

    Hi Ms. Connie, ano pong recipe nyo dyan sa mashed potatoes? Thanks

    • Connie

      05/24/2011 at 4:59 pm

      Please use the search box. There are plenty of mashed potatoes recipes in the archive.

  4. cocoy

    05/24/2011 at 5:04 pm

    10 balls lang talaga niluto mo? :-) bitin yan

    • Connie

      05/24/2011 at 5:14 pm

      2 lang kami noh hehehe

  5. ayn

    05/24/2011 at 6:02 pm

    hi ms connie :) love your site so much na ginagawa ko yung mga recipes mo lalo na yung mga tips. cook-wanna-be kasi ako (frustration-in-life-hehehe!). asked ko lang po kung pwede ko na to gawin ahead of time. like keeping it in the ref a day ahead. though dapat ba lagyan na ng panko or the next day na yung panko? will any cheese do? may dala kasing white cheese yung tita ko from turkey recently, e di namin alam talaga ano gagawin dun. hoping this recipe will do since we love potatoes. thanks and keep those delicious recipe coming. hehehe :)

    • Connie

      05/25/2011 at 12:46 am

      Oh, no, the mashed potato will dry out.

  6. mightyselene

    05/24/2011 at 7:06 pm

    reading you posts always leave me out hungry. hayz. haha.

  7. maxi

    05/25/2011 at 2:37 am

    Hello Ms.Connie,I recently discovered your website…I learn a lot,I enjoy reading your short stories,I even read the comments.Im just a novicein cooking..I tried a couple of your recipes and my friends like it..thanks to you…I appreciate you so much…thanks for sharing your recipes.God bless you and your family!thanks a lot!!!

  8. Chi

    05/25/2011 at 4:44 am

    YUM YUM YUM! This is definitely a must try – thank you as always for such great ideas!!!

  9. Crisma

    05/25/2011 at 8:41 am

    I did something very similar to this when my son was still in 6th Grade… (he’s now graduated from college…) pero hindi mozarella ang cheese that I used…just quick melt cheese. But his classmates loved it just the same! This reminds me to do it again!!! Thanks Connie!

  10. emyM

    05/25/2011 at 11:08 am

    I love this!Did you use a dipping sauce?

    • Connie

      05/25/2011 at 11:30 am

      No but I originally wanted to drizzle them with Tabasco. Changed my mind though. :)

      • Crisma

        05/26/2011 at 9:34 am

        Changed your mind about the Tabasco as dipping sauce? Good decision. It could have overpowered the real sarap of the dish.

        • Connie

          05/26/2011 at 10:52 am

          Yeah, although I like spice+cheese, mashed potatoes are too delicate for tabasco.

  11. Joy

    05/26/2011 at 11:45 pm

    I have seen something similar on the cooking channel and I was so tempted to try it. Yours looks great!

  12. michele

    05/28/2011 at 6:11 am

    My grandma made fried rice balls. This recipe reminds me of that.

  13. Kat

    05/28/2011 at 4:40 pm

    Hi Ms. Connie.. I tried to cook this last night but it was a mess. the breadcrumbs did not stick to the potato balls and turned my cooking oil into a dark/burnt. It also rendered a bitter taste to the balls.. :(

    • Connie

      05/28/2011 at 6:14 pm

      Try again. Told you, the temperature of the oil is important. Did you bother testing with a small ball before frying the ones with cheese?

      Re “the breadcrumbs did not stick to the potato balls”

      Did you use panko?

  14. Marilou

    05/29/2011 at 7:06 pm

    Where do you get mozzarella blocks? The ones available in supermarkets become soft after leaving the fridge and becomes difficult to slice. They also don’t have the same yellow color shown in the photo.

    • Connie

      05/29/2011 at 11:49 pm

      Got mine from Shopwise.

  15. Kat

    05/30/2011 at 12:41 pm

    Hi Ms. Connie, I used another brand with no indication that it is PANKO.

    Another thing, I also put butter in my mashed potato. could that be another factor also?

    I’ll definitely try again, kahit sayang sa cooking oil.haha ;)

    • Connie

      05/30/2011 at 12:53 pm

      Re bread crumbs: so long as it is coarse Japanese style…

      Butter is essential in mashed potato. But the mashed potato itself should be rather stiff, not soft.

      • Kat

        05/30/2011 at 2:16 pm

        Oh I see, because I re-read the entry and there was no mention of butter.

        Yes, my mashed potato was kinda soft. I’ll try it again and see if I get that nice golden brown balls on the photo above.

        Thanks much Ms. Connie! :)

        • Connie

          05/30/2011 at 2:23 pm

          This is not a recipe for mashed potatoes. It presupposes that you have already prepared a mashed potato recipe that is stiffer than usual.

          P.S. I inserted a link to the basic mashed potato recipe in the entry above.

  16. dhayL

    06/16/2011 at 1:19 am

    hi ms.connie,

    i tried this recipe the other day with my daughter and we had a good time doing this recipe together! :) although, some of the balls exploded in the pan i wonder why :( nonetheless, it was good, and i would like to do it again! im just thinking maybe because i didn’t use left over mashed potatoes, it was newly cooked and i just let it cooled down a bit before rolling them, could that be culprit?

    thank u again!

    • Connie

      06/16/2011 at 10:51 am

      The mashed potato mixture must be stiff.

  17. dhayL

    06/29/2011 at 9:15 pm

    aha!, i think it’s a bit too mushy, too much milk i guess! :)

  18. Roma Agtarap

    07/20/2011 at 7:05 pm

    Hi ms. connie,

    Tried your recipe and my son said it so good that he can’t resist it and his going to bring it in school as his baon.
    Thank you for sharing your recipe.
    Keep up the good work! :)

  19. Anna

    08/22/2011 at 1:14 pm

    Hi Connie!

    I’ve been looking for a mozzarella sticks recipe. Do you have one? Something similar to the one in Friday’s (TGIF) with the red sauce.

  20. ButterYum

    11/06/2011 at 9:49 am

    Hi Connie – I tried to make these out of the mashed potato recipe you linked to in your post. Sadly, that recipe was much too soft. I had to try again with a much drier version and had better success. The family loved them.

    Hope you have a great weekend.

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