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Stuffed Mashed Potato Bombs
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Aug 23, 2023
I'm telling you folks, this may be one of my best and favorite potato recipes... wait for it... EVER! This easy recipe uses leftover mashed potatoes for an easy leftover idea that fry up crispy with a crunchy crust! Stuffed Mashed Potato Bombs makes about 8 bombs 3 1/2 cups mashed potatoes Mesquite seasoning or salt and black pepper 1/2 - 3/4 cup all-purpose flour (plus more for working) 1/3 - 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1/4 cup bacon bits (or more to taste) 1/4 cup diced green onion (or more to taste) 1/4 cup sour cream 1 egg, beaten 2 cups Panko bread crumbs Fry oil -Stir the potatoes until smooth. If you're using freshly mashed potatoes add a little butter, to taste. Season with our mesquite seasoning (kentrollins.com) or salt and pepper, to taste. -Stir in enough flour to form a ball that will hold together and isn't sticky. Flour your hands and form the potatoes into balls that are slightly larger than golf ball-sized. Be sure to reserve about 1/3 - 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes to use as a sealer later.
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Tater Bomb. Stick around folks. This may be the best recipe I have ever created
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Trying to bring it to you live and in color. That's what it is. What we talking about today? Left over mashed potatoes
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Now, hey, I've made a little of everything out there with them
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I even just warmed them up, put some butter with them, eat them again. I made potato pancakes for breakfast
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Ooh, they good. Ben Shan and the Beagle and Frank made up a whole bunch of mashed taters and what we
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gonna do? Potato bombs. You heard me right. Yeah. It'll make a big explosion of your taste buds when you pop these things in your mouth
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So what do we got? three and a half cups of leftover mashed potatoes but we've got to thicken them up just a little
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so we're going to add a little flour to them rascals give them a stir because we've got to get these
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where they'll bind up enough we can make a ball with them it's probably going to take roughly about
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maybe a half to three-fourths of a cup depending now i do like to season them if you ain't got none
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of this mesquite seasoning, get you some. Or if all you got is some salt and pepper
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you can use that too. I prefer this. I like to season the potatoes
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If they fall off the spoon, they need a little more flour
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So we're looking at the 3 fourths of the cup now. Oh, it's gonna go
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Oh wait, maybe not. Okay, so it's good. Flour your hands pretty good
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because we're gonna put them in there. I like to get me about a good heaping tater
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good heaping tablespoon of taters. Then you just go to doing this little magic act. Whoa
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I'm gonna roll them in that flour just a tad. We're gonna roll them a little more
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Guess what? It is a ball now, right? We're going to kick this up into warp speed
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Shan might fast forward through it, but let's get the rest of these taters made up into these little bombs
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I don know about y but I pretty tired that was fast wasn it Now don you look in here
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Save me about a half a cup of these mashed taters. We're gonna have to have them to put the cap on
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the end of them bombs and roll them back around. So always make sure you save just a little. Now
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if you feel like this is getting a little too tacky or sticky in your hand it's not like bread
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folks I'm not after that I just want to stay good enough together to where we can get it done so if
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you need to you can add a little more flour make sure your surface stays flier here because it's
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gonna come in hey what's next I like to lay them down here take my finger thumb in there mash them
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around a little to where we can make something to hold an ammunition that we need to put in here
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We done made a new form of Tupperware bowls made out of taters
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I like to put a little cheese on the bottom first. Give it a little mash when you get it in there
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Next after that, some bacon bits. Now if you got some bacon that you got fried up and you want to put it in there, that is fine also
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Otherwise I just use these little deals right here because you can just pop these in your mouth at any time
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I'll show you like this right here. That's quality control. You got to make sure it's good
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We got a sum of this little green onion. It's about a fourth of a cup that I started out with
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Chopped up really, really fine. I'm talking finer than frogs here. So set that in there
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Sour cream. Now it don't take much. I'm going to go with that much right there
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I like to try to mash it around just a little. But you got to be careful
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Your bomb will explode before you get her done. What goes back on top? Some more cheese. You can't never have too much cheese
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Now let's go to mashing this deal around. That's why we saved a little extra. Did we need it
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Saved us a little extra. Got them on there. What do we do now? We just roll her around
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Alright, I'm going to tell you, this thing is armed and dangerous. We ain't got the fuse lid yet, but be very, very careful when you set it down
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because it'll go at any time if you ain't paying attention. If you folks is one of them measuring fanatics, where you got to know everything, like Chan
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I probably putting about a half a teaspoon to a teaspoon of everything in here so that way you know Green onion
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Sour cream. A little more cheese. Get in there
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Don't be really careful after you get them all back in there too, not to mash them or
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roll them a whole lot with a lot of pressure. You get it all where it wants to come out the outside
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So two down, six to go. You can see it, I've got my little old oven over there on that infrared burner, and we
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are going to put some oil in it. I like to use canola oil if I ain't got no creamy fry oil
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They usually make it about an inch and a half deep in there to where it's going to come up the ball about a little over halfway when you fry it
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Depends on how big your vessel is that you got in there. You got one of them fry daddy deals at home, them will work great for this
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What we got in here, rooster bullet. We done pushed in there and whisked it all up
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Make us an egg wash. We got to have it. Make sure you got you a little reservoir, a flyer left to put there in the palm of your hand
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So we're going to take this here egg wash We're going to brush them around here. I like to just set them down if I can
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We'll set them right here in this dab of flour So it'll roll around for a minute
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we can get all of it covered there then just Turn it over blow that excess off there. What happens next
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Panko breadcrumbs Take them little deals just sort of float them over. You don't want to mash them
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Just shake off any excess there. All right, we got three of these bombs ready to go in the hot grease
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Now you could have dropped that in there, but that bomb would have went off
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So if you ain't got one of them deals, I'd advise you to get one of them or a big old slotted spoon, something like that
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Shake off that excess. Drop them right in there. and let the goodness begin
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It don't take long for them things to go to browning, but we gotta make sure that they get that good crunch
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everywhere, and I want them good and golden brown. Just be really careful, and let's not burn no grease
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or get them too brown. We turned them over, folks. I gonna check the brown on this other side to make sure it right and I gonna go ahead and crisp this side this first side up just a tad more and then we go get them out put them on a wire rack to
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let them cool I always like to place a paper towel or something under them or
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you can put them on a cookie sheet let them things drain good let's get these
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others in there now remember we laid that down on that flyer side blow that
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extra offer just make sure you get that egg wash everywhere around there you can
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see is it is that old TV show y'all used to watch so many years ago it's what I
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call a full house remember I like to roll them back around in there crisp
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that bottom side up one more time if it ain't as crisp as I like it
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and things have cooled a little. Now, I want you to be able to hear it
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This right here is a Happy Meal. There's a crunch in every bite
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These are a hit. Do your dance. James Brown I feel good, my gosh
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Can you see all that goodness that's taking place in there? This will make your taste buds explode
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That's why I call it a bomb. I mean there's an explosion of flavor
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that goes on in every single bite. Y'all ever had one of them loaded baked potatoes somewhere
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Got all them what they call chives and sour cream goodness in them
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Don't go down there to the store and get none of them. Just fry you up some of these and there is a crunch
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Them panko. So folks, you ain't got no left over mashed potatoes
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Hey, guess what? They sell them already pre-made mashed potatoes in the little cold section
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Get you some of them, bring home if you don't want to make some to whoop these deals up
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The description for the recipe and everything that we used in it will be in the little link
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right below the video. Shan's always good at putting it in there. It is there every time
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And remember, this would not be possible without that great producer that I have and I love
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so much. Be careful. These are a potato bomb. They will hurt somebody
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How? Eat too many of them, you'll find out. God bless you and hit the subscribe button
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