Corn Cheese Bites | Cheese Corn Balls Recipe with Step-by-step pictorial instructions will guide you to discover a whole new way of making this tasty snack easily. They make an appetizing, perfect, and tasty snack option. This recipe of soft and melt in mouth is tried and tested a couple of times at home and it comes out to be good every time. This tasty snack ranks highest and tastes best amongst the Sweet Corn Recipes.
Corn Cheese Bites are popularly known as Corn Cheese Balls in the Indian Cuisine.
What are Cheese Corn Balls
Corn Cheese Balls are deep-fried snacks that are made with sweet corn, cheese, Potatoes, bread crumbs, and spices and herbs. They are very crunchy from the outside and soft and cheesy when you just dig into them. I have tried making them 3-4 times earlier with little variations in the recipe, but this recipe turned out to be the best and was loved by my kids at home.
Corn Cheese Balls and Kids
I have always seen that Corn Cheese Balls are loved by almost all the kids. They relish it at home, parties, and restaurants. My kids also love this recipe and they can have it any time of the day. But my kids are a little fussy and they want certain things to be made in a particular manner, especially when at home. So after struggling them to eat Corn Cheese Balls earlier where they could taste Corn kernels and always complained about how irritating when it got stuck in-between their tooth.
So one day I thought of trying to make Corn Cheese Balls by blending corn in the food processor. Trust me when I tried the recipe with sweet corn paste, it worked like a magic. My kids were happy to eat it as they just melted in the mouth.
This recipe is a guide for all the moms who have fussy and picky eaters.
The mild, subtle, and simple flavor of this recipe will make a fantastic snack option for kids and will cheer up their mood.
It is also an ideal recipe for large crowds when you are planning to throw a party, as Corn Cheese Balls (Indian Cheese Balls) are loved by each and everyone, at least everyone whom I know.
Points to remember while making Corn Cheese Balls
- In this Corn Cheese Balls recipe, I have boiled sweet corns and have ground them to a coarse paste, and mixed them with mashed potatoes and grated cheese.
- It has very mild flavors as kids prefer a nonspicy version of Corn Cheese Balls.
- This is a simple and no-fuss recipe.
- The creaminess of cheese along with corn and potatoes makes a perfect match made in heaven.
- It is then dipped in breadcrumbs and deep-fried on a medium to a high flame to get the perfect crunchiness.
Both my daughters love to eat Corn Cheesey Balls at home and had demanded me to make it yesterday for snacks. At the same time, they had told me that they need to be mild, melt in the mouth and delicious. I was happy to try this recipe and feed them their favorite version that they absolutely love it.
The results were good as you can see in the pictures and I am super happy that they simply pounced on it and polished off all of them in no time. Now this will definitely go in my cooking repertoire as the best recipe of Corn Cheese Balls for my picky eaters.
Alterations that you can make in the Corn Cheese Balls recipe
Well, you can alter the recipe a little bit as per your taste buds. If you want to make it spicier you can add finely chopped green chilies or chili flakes.
I have not added it as my daughters can’t eat spicy food. You can also avoid making a coarse paste of corn and keep the corn kernel as it is. This will work just well.
You can also add garam masala, red chili powder to your recipe, and make it more aromatic. Little changes can be made in this recipe to suit the taste buds that your family may like.
Serving ideas of Corn Cheese Balls
These are served with green chutney and tomato ketchup. If you want to be a little more creative you can either serve them with Salsa or any Cocktail dip of your choice.
You can also click on the links below that will guide you to some other wonderful recipes just like this one, which will be perfect especially if you are looking for kids.
More Kids friendly recipes:
- Veg and cheese quesadilla
- Dates and Oats tarts
- Multigrain Mango jaggery cake
- Red grapes and cheese crostini
- Aloo Tikki
- Red velvet pasta
Recipe of Corn Cheese Balls
Ingredients:
2 medium Boiled potatoes
1 1/2 cups Boiled sweet corn
1 cup Grated proceed cheese
1 tbsp Milk
1/2 cup Fresh coriander
2 tbsp Cornflour
2 tbsp All-purpose flour
2 tsp Pizza seasoning
Salt as per taste
2 cups Bread crumbs
Oil for frying
Recipe:
Step-by-step Recipe
1. Place sweet corn in a food processor, add little milk, and make it like a coarse paste.
2. Remove it on a plate and keep it aside.
3. Grate processed cheese and keep it aside.
4. Take 2 boiled potatoes and smash them on a big plate.
5. Add sweet corn paste and cheese to it.
6. Mix fresh coriander, salt, pizza seasoning in it.
7. Now add 1 tbsp cornflour and 1 tbsp all-purpose flour.
8. Mix all the ingredients very gently with your hands.
9. If you find the stuffing a little soft add a little more cornflour.
10. Grease your hands with little oil so that the stuffing doesn’t stick to your hands.
11. Pinch a lemon size ball and roll it in between your palms as shown in the picture.
12. If you want to add more cheese in the center then flatten the ball and place little cheese in it and roll it again.
13. Make balls of all the stuffing and keep it in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
14. It is advisable to keep it in the refrigerator so that the balls become firm and do not break while frying.
15. Meanwhile, make a paste by adding water in 1 tbsp cornflour and 1 tbsp all-purpose flour.
16. After 10 minutes remove the balls from the refrigerator and first dip them in cornflour and all-purpose flour and then roll them in bread crumbs.
17. Heat oil in a frying pan, once the oil starts to bubble softly drop the corn cheese balls in the oil and fry them on a medium to high flame.
18. Keep turning sides gently and fry till they are golden brown in color.
19. Fry all the balls in small batches and remove them in a kitchen napkin to remove any excess oil.
20. Serve corn cheese balls hot with tomato ketchup, green chutney, or Mexican salsa.
HOW TO MAKE BREAD CRUMBS AT HOME:
1. Take bread cores or bread slices and grind them into a food processor till you get a coarse dry mixture.
2. You can either make it in small batches as and when you need it or make it in a large batch and store the extra in a box in the refrigerator.
3. It will stay in the refrigerator for 2 weeks at least.
Recipe of Corn Cheese Balls
Ingredients
- 2 medium Boiled potatoes
- 1 ½ cups Boiled sweet corn
- 1 cup Grated proceed cheese
- 1 tbsp Milk
- ½ cup Fresh coriander
- 2 tbsp Cornflour
- 2 tbsp All-purpose flour
- 2 tsp Pizza seasoning
- Salt as per taste
- 2 cups Bread crumbs
- Oil for frying
Instructions
- Place sweet corn in a food processor, add little milk, and make it a like a coarse paste.
- Remove it on a plate and keep it aside.
- Grate processed cheese and keep it aside.
- Take 2 boiled potatoes and smash it on a big plate.
- Add sweet corn paste and cheese in it.
- Mix fresh coriander, salt, pizza seasoning in it.
- Now add 1 tbsp cornflour and 1 tbsp all-purpose flour.
- Mix all the ingredients very gently with your hands.
- If you find the stuffing little soft add little more cornflour.
- Grease your hands with little oil so that the stuffing doesn't stick to your hands.
- Pinch a lemon size ball and roll it in between your palms as shown in the picture.
- If you want to add more cheese in the center then flatten the ball and place little cheese in it and roll it again.
- Make balls of all the stuffing and keep it in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
- It is advisable to keep it in the refrigerator so that the balls become firm and do not break while frying.
- Meanwhile, make a paste by adding water in 1 tbsp cornflour and 1 tbsp all-purpose flour.
- After 10 minutes remove the balls from the refrigerator and first dip them in cornflour and all-purpose flour and then roll them in bread crumbs.
- Heat oil in a frying pan, once the oil starts to bubble softly drop the corn cheese balls in the oil and fry them on a medium to high flame.
- Keep turning sides gently and fry till they are golden brown in color.
- Fry all the balls in small batches and remove them in a kitchen napkin to remove any excess oil.
- Serve corn cheese balls hot with tomato ketchup, green chutney, or Mexican salsa.
HOW TO MAKE BREAD CRUMBS AT HOME:
- Take bread cores or bread slices and grind it into a food processor till you get a coarse dry mixture.
- You can either make it in small batches as and when you need it or make it in a large batch and store the extra in a box in the refrigerator.
- It will stay in the refrigerator for 2 weeks at least.
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Enjoy your Corn Cheese Bites! Leave a comment after you try this recipe.
They’re popularly known as Corn Cheese Balls, Indian Cheese Balls, and also Cheesy Corn Balls. It is one of the nest Sweet Corn Recipes.
