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Recipe for "spinach-balls"

NAME

     SPINACH-BALLS - A delicious appetizer or vegetable dish
     I learned this recipe from my mother. I think she originally
     found it in the Troy (NY) Times Record.

INGREDIENTS (Serves 12-20)

     500 g     frozen spinach, chopped
     250 g     herb stuffing mix
     150 g     parmesan cheese, grated
     5 ml      garlic, finely minced
     1         medium onion, finely chopped
     3         eggs, beaten
     120 g     butter, melted

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Preheat oven to 175  deg.  C.   Thaw  spinach  and
               remove excess liquid.
          (2)  Add remaining ingredients (stuffing mix,  parmesan
               cheese,  garlic,  onion, eggs, and butter) and mix
               well.
          (3)  Form the mixture into small balls and place  on  a
               baking sheet.
          (4)  Bake for 15 minutes at 175 deg. C.

NOTES

     These can be made up ahead of time and  frozen.  If  frozen,
     increase cooking time by 10-15 minutes.
     Herb stuffing mix  is  a  commercial  preparation  of  bread
     crumbs and herbs and seasonsings that is packaged for stuff-
     ing a turkey or chicken. You can make your own using  recipe
     BREAD-STUFF-1 if you like.
     This recipe makes about 80 appetizer-size balls, or about 40
     larger balls to use as a vegetable dish at a meal.

RATING

     Difficulty: easy.  Time:  20  minutes  preparation.  15 - 30
     minutes baking.  Precision: Approximate measurement ok.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Jim Roche
     University of Rochester, Computer Science Dept., Rochester, New York, USA
     roche@cs.rochester.edu        rochester!roche