Pumpkin Balls - Japanese Style

This is a wonderfully nice and tasty finger food/snack/appetizer.

Ingredients

1. 600g Pumpkin or 900g Potato
2. 200g Chicken meat – add pepper, 1/2tbsp salt, 1/2tbsp mirin – marinate for 15 mins - to this, Fish added Sake too
3. 1 onion or more if you like
4. 2 eggs
5. Plain flour
6. Rising Flour
6. Bread Crumbs

Seasoning

1. 2tsp salt
2. 3tbsp Potato Starch/Cornflour
3. Pepper

Directions

1. Cut the pumpkin into pieces, steam for 10 mins till soft, smash into paste while adding 3tbsp of potato flour.
2. Slice marinated chicken meat and onion into cubes.
3. Heat wok with some oil, fragrant(meaning fry till the flavour comes out) the onion, add in chicken meat, and stir fry until cooked.
4. Mix pumpkin paste, onion, cooked chicken meat and seasoning in a bowl evenly.
5. Knead well into balls. Coat with a layer of plain flour+ rising flour (in equal quantities), beat egg solution and a layer of breadcrumbs.
6. Deep fry till golden brown then drain well and serve with some tonkatsu sauce. - or, with Fish, its wholegrain mustard(tangy) and Japanese Mayonnaise.

Very nice to savour as the pumpkin is sweet. The best pumpkin is from Japan - but that costs a bomb. However, i've tried and really..the local ones aren't that bad too. Organic's good too!

This is a great recipe to have fun with - get 2 friends to help and have fun with all the flour, egg and breadcrumbs!