Iraqi Stuffed Potato Balls

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Passion for Potatoes

By Paul Gayler

Published 2010

  • About

Here simple mashed potato is enlivened with feta cheese, chopped hard-boiled egg, currants and spices, then rolled in shredded raw potato and fried until crisp. Serve with an Arabic-style salad of tomato, cucumber and red onion with a garlic, olive oil and lemon dressing.

Ingredients

  • 25 g (1 oz) unsalted butter
  • ½ onion, finely chopped

Method

Heat the butter in a small pan, add the onion and cook until soft and golden. Add the paprika, allspice and cumin and cook for 1 minute to infuse the onion with the spices. Transfer to a bowl and mix in the feta, hard-boiled egg, chives and currants.

In a separate bowl, mix together the warm mashed potato, cornflour and one of the eggs, then season to taste. Using wet hands, shape into