Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all … Check This Amazing Recipe: Carrot and sweetcorn fritters

How to Make Carrot and sweetcorn fritters

Preparation time:

less than 30 mins

Cooking time:

less than 10 mins

Serves:

Makes 6

Dietary:

Vegetarian

Ingredients

• 2 carrots
• 198g tin sweetcorn
• 80g/3oz gram (chickpea) flour
• 2 spring onions
• 20g/¾oz fresh root ginger)
• 1 red chilli
• 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 3 tbsp coconut oil (or extra virgin olive oil or cold-pressed rapeseed oil

To serve

• 120g/3¾oz coconut yoghurt
• 1 tbsp chopped fresh mint
• lemon
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method

1. Put the carrots in a bowl and add the sweetcorn, gram flour, spring onions, ginger, chilli, seeds, garam masala (if using), a good pinch of salt and lots of pepper. Mix well and leave to stand for 5 minutes.

2. Heat 2 tablespoons coconut oil in a large non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. Take a palmful of the carrot mixture and flatten it firmly into a fritter. Make another two fritters in the same way.

3. Cook the fritters in the oil over a medium heat for 3 minutes on each side, or until golden and crisp, pressing with a spatula to flatten. Drain on kitchen paper.

4. Make three more fritters in the same way. Heat an extra 1 tablespoon of oil in the pan and cook the fritters.

5. To serve, combine the coconut yoghurt and mint leaves, add a little seasoning and mix well. Put into a small serving bowl. Serve the fritters warm or cold with lemon or lime wedges for squeezing over. Dip and enjoy!