Spinach Cheese Balls have a creamy cheese filling with Italian seasoning. They fry up ultra crispy and taste great dipped in pizza sauce.

Delicious Appetizer Recipe

These Spinach Cheese Balls have a larger list of ingredients than the classic spinach balls made with stuffing mix, but they are so tasty. With a cheese-flavored center encased in a crunchy coating, they are hard to resist.

Creamy Cheese Filling

Three types of cheese (mozzarella, parmesan, and ricotta) form the base for these spinach balls. There’s also some sour cream.

Lots of Seasoning

Onion powder, garlic powder, Italian seasoning, and crushed red pepper flakes are added for seasoning. Spinach is bland on its own and needs a big flavor punch.
Start With Spinach

You’ll need one box of frozen chopped spinach. Thaw in the refrigerator overnight and then be sure to squeeze the water out of it or the filling will be too watery to hold shape.

Crispy Coating

The spinach cheese mixture gets rolled in bread crumbs and then fried in vegetable oil until crispy. Panko crumbs can be used instead of bread crumbs.

How To Serve

These Spinach Cheese Balls make a great appetizer. Because of the Italian flavors, they taste great dipped in pizza sauce. I use a jarred pizza sauce.

Make Ahead and Storage

The filling can be mixed, shaped into balls and rolled in bread crumbs ahead of time and refrigerated until you are ready to fry them. They are best eaten right awa...