Carrot cheese ball

Best Easter appetizer made with carrot crab and cheese, shaped like an orange that will look pretty on any dinner table.

Course Appetizer, Brunch

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 15

Servings 4

Calories 177kcal

Steam/ cook peeled and cut carrot until it is soft. Here I pressure cooked the carrot for 15 minutes in Instant pot then did a quick release. Then mashed the pieces into a soft paste finish. Do not add any water while cooking carrot the moisture present in it is enough to cook it.
Add the crab meat into th mixing bowl, parmesan cheese mayonnaise and the spice powders mix very gently and make small balls out of it
On to a cling wrap spread a tbsp of mashed carrot spread evenly and place the crab and cheese mixture in the center of it and gather all the sides together so the carrot mash covers all the white areas evenly.
Use your finger to make indent on top to look like an orange/ mandarin. Carefully open the cling wrap and place on the serving plate. Insert any herb on top to garnish to complete the fruit look. Brush with a thin coat of olive oil if needed to give the shiny plump look and protect from oxidizing.
Serve the carrot cheese ball as an appetizer plain or with crackers.

Do not add any water while cooking carrot the moisture present in it is enough to cook it as that will make the carrot mushy and hard to shape.
Before shaping check the consistency of both the coating and the filling.
Check if its soggy then add dry ingredients such as cheese or more crab etc to the filling. If it's too dry and cracking then add more mayo.
Once the shape is messed up it's hard to reshape as all the ingredients are very fine and cannot be separated.Hence try one and make sure its holding the shape well.