Fried Goat Cheese Balls

Cherry season is here and they’re stealing the show 🍒✨ Whip up this legendary dried cherry goat cheese ball recipe – it’s sweet, tangy, and totally irresistible. 

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Meal Type
Snack
Timeframe

40 minutes

Seasonality
All year
Canadian Ingredients
  • Cherry

Fried Goat Cheese Balls

Ingredients

  • 12oz. Goat Cheese

  • ⅓ cup Flour

  • 1 Egg

  • ½ tbsp. Sea Salt

  • 1 cup Panko Bread Crumbs

  • 2 cups Canola Oil

  • ½ cup Dried Cherries

  • ½ cup Pecans

  • Pomegranate Balsamic Vinegar

Directions

  1. Place one bowl with flour – Place another bowl with egg, water – Place a third bowl with breadcrumbs, sea salt

  2. Mix goat cheese, dried cherries, pecans together into mixing bowl

  3. Roll goat cheese into 24 1-tbsp sized balls – Refrigerate for 1hr until firm

  4. Roll each goat cheese ball into flour bowl, then egg bowl, then breadcrumb bowl

  5. Heat oil to 350F into frying pan

  6. Set 3 goat cheese balls into the oil at a time, fry for 30secs until golden – Let cool on paper towel

  7. Garnish with pomegranate balsamic vinegar