How to Make Cheese Balls

Cheese is one of the rare ingredients which can be consumed raw as well as cooked. There are a number of dishes which use it as a secondary ingredient. But still it can be used as a prime ingredient and made into delicious cheese balls. These cheese balls can be served with crisps, crackers, or raw vegetables.

Recipe I

Ingredients

• 250 grams / 9 oz of cream cheese
• 2 gherkins
• 1 tablespoon of fresh parsley
• 1 dessertspoon of tomato sauce (ketchup)
• 1 dessertspoon of sherry
• 1 teaspoons of onion stock powder (optional)
• ½ cup of grated cheddar cheese
• ½ cup of finely chopped walnuts

Instructions

1. Put the cream cheese in a middle sized bowl and let it soften.
2. Then get gherkins and parsley chopped and add these to the bowl of cream cheese.
3. Take the tomato sauce, sherry, and stock powder and pour these into the bowl containing cream cheese mixture.
4. Add the grated cheese to the mixture and mix the ingredients thoroughly.
5. Put the mixture inside a bowl and refrigerate for about one hour.
6. While refrigerating the mixture, chop the walnuts finely.
7. Shape the chilled cheese mixture into a ball and coat its surface with finely cut walnuts.
8. The cheese ball is ready and can be served with crisps, crackers, or raw vegetables.

Recipe II

Ingredients

• 8 oz of cream cheese, softened
• 8 oz of cheddar cheese, shredded
• 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons of margarine, softened
• 1/4 cup of chopped onion
• ½ cup of crushed walnuts

Instructions

1. Place the cream cheese, cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, margarine, and chopped onion in a middle sized bowl and mix the ingredients well.
2. Put the mixture in refrigerator for one hour or till the mixture e is ready to be shaped into a ball.
3. Shape the mixture into a ball and roll it over the crushed almonds.

Recipe III

Ingredients

• 1/4 Cup of flour
• 3/4 Cup of water
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
• 1 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon of onion powder
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of Dijon
• 1/4 teaspoon of pepper
• 3/4 Cup of nutritional yeast
• 3 tablespoon of Olive oil
• 1 (8 ounce) Can of cream cheese
• Chopped nuts (optional)

Instructions

1. Put a dry frying pan on the stove at a medium heat and place the flour into it. Keep cooking the flour till its color becomes a bit brownish. While cooking, keep stirring the flour to cook evenly.
2. Whisk in the cornstarch, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, Dijon, yeast, and water t to the frying pan. Keep stirring the mixture till it becomes very thick.
3. Remove the pot from heat and add olive oil to the hot mixture. Allow the mixture to cool till it becomes barely warm.
4. Add the cream cheese to the barely warm mixture, and refrigerate till the mixture is completely chilled.
5. Divide the chilled mixture into small pieces, and shape these pieces into balls.
6. Roll the cheese balls on the chopped nuts.
7. The vegetarian cheese balls are ready to be served.

Watch a video instruction on how to make cheese balls

Related Articles

How to Make Tuna Noodle Salad

How to Make Apple Salad

How to Make Tuna Fish Salad

How to Make Low Fat Mayonnaise