Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls Recipe

Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls Recipe is a lip smacking finger food made from minced chicken combined with spinach and stuffed with cheese on the inside. These chicken bombs make for a great party appetizer or even as an evening snack.

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Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls Recipe
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Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls Recipe is a simple yet flavour packed chicken appetizer. Minced Chicken is combined with spinach and simple herbs spices and chilli flakes to make these bombs. 

These Chicken Spinach cheese balls are then filled with cheese on the inside, coated in egg and bread crumbs and finally deep fried giving it that delicious texture and taste. It's an appetizer that you just can't get enough of. 

Serve Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls Recipe with Homemade Red Chilli Garlic Sauce Recipe  and Red Wine Sangria Cocktail Recipe for the first course of your meal. 

If you like this recipe, you can also try other Chicken recipes such as

  1. Goan Chicken Stew
  2. Chicken Biryani
  3. Chicken Tikka Masala

 

Cuisine: Italian Recipes
Course: Appetizer
Diet: High Protein Non Vegetarian
Equipments Used: Hard Anodised Kadai (Wok)
Prep in

10 M

Cooks in

20 M

Total in

30 M

Makes:

20 Cheese balls

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Spinach , washed and finely chopped
  • 4 Britannia Cheese Cubes
  • 400 grams Chicken keema , (minced chicken)
  • Salt
  • 2 teaspoon Garlic powder
  • 2 teaspoons Mixed Herbs (Dried)
  • 1 teaspoon Red Chilli flakes
  • 1 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • 1 teaspoon Black pepper powder
  • Oil , to deep fry
  • For the outer crust
  • 2 Whole Eggs
  • 1/2 cup Whole Wheat Bread crumbs
  • 1 tablespoon Mixed Herbs (Dried)

How to make Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls Recipe

  1. To begin making the Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls Recipe, prep all the ingredients and keep them ready.

  2. Heat oil in a pan over medium heat; add the chopped spinach and sauté until it wilts down. Keep aside to cool.

  3. Next, cut each cheese cube into four pieces and set aside. 

  4. In a large mixing bowl, combine the chicken keema, garlic powder, mixed herbs, red chilli flakes, salt, black pepper powder, olive oil and cooked spinach. Mix well and set aside for 30 minutes. 

  5. In the meanwhile, in a large mixing bowl, combine the bread crumbs, salt and mixed herbs and keep it ready. 

  6. Whisk the egg in a small bowl and keep aside.

  7. Heat oil in a kadai on medium flame to prepare the oil for deep frying.

  8. To shape the Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls , take a lemon size portion of the chicken spinach keema mixture, flatten it in the palm of your hand and make a small cup out of it in your palms. Stuff the small cheese cube in it and reshape the keema into a ball shape. 

  9. Dip this Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls into the beaten egg mixture and then roll it in the bread crumbs.

  10. You will have a crusted cheese ball which you now add into the preheated oil for deep frying. Deep fry the Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls until they turn golden brown in colour. 

  11. Once done, drain excess oil from the Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls into kitchen paper towels and serve hot.

  12. Serve Chicken Spinach Cheese Balls with Homemade Red Chilli Garlic Sauce Recipe  and Red Wine Sangria Cocktail Recipe for the first course of your meal.