How to make festive cheese balls without frying: a win-win appetizer

Cheese balls are a win-win festive appetizer that can be prepared quickly and from budget products. They can be made with melted, hard, creamy, and even homemade cheese. Serve on their own or on a cracker, and drizzle with honey.

Food blogger Yevheniya Karpiuk (evgeniyakarpiuk) shared a recipe for cheese balls with crackers for the holiday table on her Instagram page .

Ingredients:

• hard cheese - 100 g
• cream cheese - 200 g
• cranberries
• pistachios
• parsley
• crackers
• honey
• grapes

Method of preparation:

1. Grate hard cheese and mix it with cream cheese.

2. Chop cranberries, pistachios and parsley. This will be the decor for the appetizer. You can mix the ingredients together or leave them separately to make the balls look different.

3. Form balls from the cheese mass, wrapping a grape in each.

4. Roll each ball in the sprinkles.

5. Place the balls on a cracker and serve them with honey.