Pan-fried Cheese Balls
Hors d’oeuvres Recipe Created by Ruth Paget
Any
vegetable oil will work for pan-frying these cheese balls on the stovetop.
Serves
4
Ingredients:
-2
cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
-1
cup corn flour
-1
egg
-1
tablespoon Szeged or Chinita paprika
-1/2
to ¾ cup oil for frying depending on the size of your frying pan
Steps:
1-Mix
cheese, corn flour, egg, and paprika together.
2-Add
oil to frying pan and heat it until it is sizzling. Use spoons to carefully drop cheese balls in
oil. If you are worried about being
burned, wear cotton gloves.
3-Fry
first batch of cheese balls for 5 to 10 minutes and repeat.
4-Place
cheese balls on paper towel to drain.
Serve
cheese balls in a bowl with toothpicks on the side to pick them up easily.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
