Cheese balls in a frying pan

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   For those who really like cheese, a wonderful snack is suitable - cheese balls in a frying pan. Prepare all the necessary ingredients. Hard cheese is the main product of this dish. Therefore, choose a high-quality and delicious product. Put the cheese in the refrigerator an hour before cooking to make it easier to grate. Take the flour of the highest grade, eggs - C0. Choose odorless vegetable oil.

2. Step 2:

   

   Before you start cooking cheese balls, cool the hard cheese so that it does not melt and it is easier to grind it. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. With a dough in which larger pieces of cheese are easier to work with.

3. Step 3:

   

   To knead the dough, take a deep bowl so that it is convenient to mix all the ingredients. Beat the eggs in it with a fork. It is not necessary to beat until foam appears.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add grated hard cheese to the eggs. Add a little salt. If the cheese is too salty, you can not salt the dough. Mix everything together.

5. Step 5:

   

   In a bowl, add 3 tablespoons of flour to the cheese and egg mass. The consistency of the dough depends on all the ingredients, products from different manufacturers have different properties. Therefore, add flour in small portions. If the dough is too thin, that is, when mixing, you do not have to apply force, add more flour.

7. Step 6:

   

   From the resulting dough, make balls the size of a quail egg. You can make it bigger, but then you will have to use more vegetable oil. The dough is quite sticky, especially since the cheese begins to melt in warm hands. To make it easier to work with the dough, try to form balls with your fingertips. When a lot of dough sticks to your hands, wash them and dry them, and then continue to sculpt. I got 20 cheese balls.

8. Step 7:

   

   Take a round wide dish with a flat bottom. Sprinkle the bottom with breadcrumbs. Put the resulting balls there. Roll them on all sides in breadcrumbs. To do this, by turning and tilting the dishes, the balls will roll along the bottom and be evenly covered with breadcrumbs. Instead of breadcrumbs, you can take flour, but with breadcrumbs you get a crisper crust. Take a frying pan with high sides and a dimeter of about 20 cm.

9. Step 8:

   

   Whichever frying pan you take, pour enough oil so that the balls sink into it by half. Heat the oil over medium heat, because it is dangerous to work with hot oil and you can get burned. In order for the oil not to splash, you can add a pinch of salt to it, it will absorb moisture, if there is any. Check the required oil temperature by throwing a couple of crackers. It should boil. Gently dip the balls into the oil.

10. Step 9:

    

    Stir them with a spoon or a slotted spoon so that they are evenly baked and do not stick to the bottom of the pan. If you see that the balls darken too quickly, make the fire smaller. So it will be easier for you to cope with the frying of the balls - some will not burn while you get others. Fry until golden brown and turn over to the other side. It took me about 2 minutes on each side. The time depends on many factors: breadcrumbs, butter, and plates.

11. Step 10:

    

    Take the cheese balls well-fried on all sides out of the pan and spread them on paper towels so that the excess oil goes away. In order not to spoil the rounded shape of the balls, after cooking, do not hold hot balls for a long time with a slide, because they are soft and can crush each other.