Love spaghetti? How about having your spaghetti covered with crispy bread crumb coating. These turn out very delicious and large balls look very tempting. They are also party favourites- kids, oldies, teenagers everyone loves them. Just serve with a yummy dip like spicy ketchup and lemon wedges.
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How to make it?
Boil Chicken
In the pan take boneless chicken and add ½ cup water, green chilli, ginger and garlic paste. Mix well and cover. Cook for about 20 minutes on medium-low heat until the water dries. Dry out any excess water but do not burn spices.
Let the chicken get cool enough to handle then shred it roughly with hands. Set aside.
Make White Sauce
Melt butter in a pan and add flour, chicken cube, black pepper and oregano powder. Sauté for a minutes on slow heat.
Gradually add 1 cup milk with constant stirring to avoid lumps. Adjust heat as required. Let sauce simmer for few seconds until thickened.
White sauce is ready, adjust salt if needed.
Simultaneously, while making sauce boil water in a pot with salt and add broken spaghetti noodles. Cook for 8-10 minute or follow instructions on the packet. Add spaghetti directly to white sauce and mix so they do not stick.
Add chicken and boiled spaghetti to white sauce and mix.
Also add cream cheese triangles, mix well. Keep the mixture in fridge to cool while you chop veggies. ( You may add cheddar or mozzarella cheese instead. )
Next add vegetables and green chillies. Mix. ( Keep the mixture again in fridge while you set the breading station, cool mixture in thick and easy to roll.)
Whisk eggs With salt and red chilli powder. Also place little flour on a plate.
To make spaghetti balls, tightly pack a measuring cup (¼ cup size) with a spaghetti mixture. Put the mixture on flour and roll coating generously.
Press each ball lightly with hand to make it tight. Similarly roll 12- 13 balls. ( See tips in the beginning of post for shallow frying and to avoid bread crumb coating.)
Coat balls with eggs.
Then roll in bread crumbs. Roll again in egg and bread crumbs to form double coating of bread crumbs. ( Fry immediately or store in fridge for 24 hour and fry as needed.)
Deep fry 4-5 balls at a time in wok on medium high heat until golden. Turn the balls 3-4 times for even frying. Remove balls from oil on a paper towel.
Garnish with green onions. Serve hot with ketchup and lemon wedges.
Tips:
- If you find working on the breading station and double coating cumbersome. I have tricks for you too. Just coat the spaghetti mixture generously with flour and form a flat thick cutlet instead of a ball. Dip in egg and fry directly. The spaghetti cutlets are ready. Yeah!!!!
- If you don’t wish to deep fry, make the spaghetti all in the shape of a cutlet and shallow fry.
- Skip sliced green chillies if wanting the balls to be less spicy for kids.
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Cheesy Spaghetti Balls Recipe
Ingredients
For Chicken
- 300 gram boneless chicken
- 1 tablespoon green chilli paste
- 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- ½ cup water
White Sauce
- 4 tablespoon butter
- 4 tablespoon flour
- 1 chicken cube, or 1 tablespoon chicken powder
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon oregano powder
- 1 cup milk
- 3 cheese triangle or ½ cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 cup broken spaghetti, (See Notes)
- Water to boil
- Salt as required
Vegetables
- 1 large carrot, shredded
- 1 large stalk green onion, finely chopped
- 1 capsicum, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves, optional
- 2 green chillies chopped
- 1 tablespoon red chilli sauce, like tobacco sauce
For Coating
- ½ cup flour
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon red chilli powder
- 1½ cup bread crumbs
- Oil , to fry
Instructions
Boil Chicken
- Take boneless chicken, green chilli paste, ginger garlic paste and water in a pot. Cook on medium heat for 20 minutes until chicken is tender. Dry out any remaining water in pot on high heat.
- Let chicken cool to room temperature, then shred it. Set aside.
For White Sauce
- In a thick bottomed pot or pan, heat butter on slow flames add flour, black pepper, oregano powder and chicken cube or powder. Sauté for a minutes then gradually add 1 cup milk with constant stirring. This white sauce will be thicker than regular white sauce. Set aside.
Boil Spaghetti
- Simultaneously while making white sauce, boil water with salt in a pot. Add spaghetti and cook as per instructions on packet until al dente or cooked.
Assemble spaghetti mixture
- Drain excess water in a colander and transfer spaghetti to white sauce. Also add shredded chicken and cheese. Mix well. (Keep mixture in fridge to chilli while you chop veggies.)
- When white sauce mixture is cool to room temperature add chopped vegetables and red chilli sauce. ( Keep in fridge again to chill until needed chilled mixture is easy to roll.)
Bread crumb double coating:
- Whisk 2 eggs with salt, 1 tablespoon water and red chilli powder. Set aside.
- Keep a plate ready with flour. Fill ¼ cup of tightly packed spaghetti mixture and pour over flour. Roll in flour and form 12 balls.
- Now roll each ball in egg mixture then bread crumb. Roll again in egg mixture and bread crumbs to form a double coating of bread crumbs.
To Fry
- Heat oil in a wok and deep fry on medium high heat by turning 3-4 times until golden.
- Or store in fridge for up to 24 hours and fry as needed.
- Serve hot with spicy tomato ketchup and lemon wedges.
Sakina says
Tried this recipe yesterday for iftari and they turned out really nice! Adjusted the spice according to our preference but other than that followed the recipe and the spaghetti balls turned out yum! Thank you!
Recipe 52 says
Thanks a lot for the lovely feedback.
Khadija says
Was wondering if anyone has tried baking these vs frying? Does it still turn out the same?
Recipe 52 says
I don't recommend baking these as they won't be as crisp and golden. You can still try baking 2-3 balls if a little compromise in taste is OK for you. Fry the rest if the result is not satisfying.