Wonder its a French recipe or not,but i learned this dish during my first ever cooking class i went few days back here in Paris. Actually this cooking class was seriously very interesting as i learned to cook and make no cook dishes out of the canned/tinned foods. Instead of opening and heating the canned vegetables, the chef of this cooking class dished out a couple of interesting dishes. I was speechless when she prepared a sandwich with tinned palm's heart,a carrot tart , a cake with tinned french beans etc, one among those recipes i learned from this cooking class is this crispy green peas and carrot balls actually known in French as Boulettes de Petit pois et Carottes.
