Sweet Potato & Tuna Balls
Recipe: #23739
May 11, 2016
Categories: Tuna, Appetizers, Sweet Potato/Yam, Australian, Baby Shower, Birthday, Brunch, Christmas, Easter, Fathers Day, Game/Sports Day, Mothers Day, New Years, Oven Bake, Low Fat, more
"A very easy appetizer to serve at parties and gatherings. Served with sour cream they are terrific. The yield will depend on the size of the balls you make."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (26.2 g)
- Calories 39.9
- Total Fat - 1.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.3 g
- Cholesterol - 6.6 mg
- Sodium - 76.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 4.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.4 g
- Sugars - 0.4 g
- Protein - 2.4 g
- Calcium - 8.6 mg
- Iron - 0.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Pre-heat oven to 180ºC. Cook the sweet potato in a saucepan of boiling water for 8-10 minutes or until tender. Drain and mash.
Step 2
Combine potato with the tuna, breadcrumbs, coriander, sweet chilli sauce, spring onions, egg, cumin and ginger and mix ingredients together well.
Step 3
Form mixture into small balls and coat in cornflake crumbs.
Step 4
Place onto a lined oven tray and bake for 15 minutes, or until golden and just crisp.
Step 5
Serve individually or thread 2 or 3 hot balls onto skewers and serve with the sour cream as a dipping sauce.
Tips
No special items needed.