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Cheesy Spaghetti Balls Recipe

Break crispy coating to see cheesy spaghetti surprise.
Course Snack
Cuisine World
Keyword Cheesy Spaghetti Balls Recipe
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 18 balls
Calories 313kcal

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
  • 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.

Video

Notes

To measure spaghetti: Break a small bunches of spaghetti in 1 inch pieces and collect in a cup to make full cup of broken spaghetti.

Nutrition

Calories: 313kcal