How to Make Peanut Balls

An unusual but delicious fried dish. Make sure you avoid people with peanut allergies when serving this dish.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• ½ cup peanuts
• 2 cups boil-in-bag rice
• 2 eggs
• Shortening
• ½ cup milk
• 2 tbs. flour
• ½ tsp. kosher salt
• Freshly-ground pepper
• Cracker crumbs

1. Boil the rice and chop the peanuts into tiny fragments. Grind the pepper.
2. Beat the 2 eggs separately and pour into little bowls and reserve.
3. Heat the shortening in deep pan to 390 degrees F.
4. Mix the milk, flour, 1 tbs. shortening, salt and pepper to make a white sauce.
5. Mix the peanuts, 1 egg, sauce and rice. Roll all this into balls.
6. Dip the balls into the other egg, then dredge through cracker crumbs before frying in the hot shortening.
7. Drain on paper towels.