Curried Pumpkin Fritters Recipes

PUMPKIN FRITTERS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine pumpkin, egg, flour, baking powder, curry powder, and salt. Mix until smooth.
• Heat oil in a deep saucepan to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Drop batter by spoonfuls into hot oil. Fry until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon, and serve immediately.

CURRIED CAULIFLOWER FRITTERS

Steps:

• First make your batter. Smash up the cumin and mustard seeds, chiles and peppercorns in a pestle and mortar until you have a powder. Put the flour into a mixing bowl and stir in the ground spices and the turmeric. Pour in most of the beer and whisk gently. Check the consistency - you want it to be the thickness of heavy cream. If it's too thick, whisk in the rest of the beer. Don't worry too much about having little lumps in the batter, as they'll just become nice crunchy bits when you start frying. Season with sea salt and put aside.
• Trim the bottom of the stalk and break the cauliflower into bite-sized florets. Slice up the stalk into 1-inch pieces - this way it will all cook at the same rate. Wash the cauliflower, drain it and pat dry with kitchen towels. Place the cauliflower pieces in a bowl and dust with a little flour.
• Pour the oil into a deep saucepan - you want it to be about 4 to 5 inches deep - and heat it to 350 degrees F. If you don't have a thermometer don't worry, just drop a piece of potato into the oil. When it floats to the surface and starts to sizzle, the oil will be at the right temperature so remove the potato from the pan.
• Shake any excess flour off the cauliflower. One by one, dip the pieces into the beer batter, then carefully place them in the hot oil, moving them away from you as you do so. Make sure you stand back so you don't get splashed. It's best to fry them in batches so you don't overcrowd the pan (but serve them as soon as each batch is ready). Each time a batch of cauliflower is nearly ready, add some battered parsley leaves to the pan and fry for 40 seconds (you want to serve them scattered over the fritters). Fry the pieces gently, turning them a couple of times with a slotted spoon. When they're browned and crisp, lift them out of the oil, allowing any excess to drip back into the pan, and drain on kitchen towels. Dust with sea salt and squeeze over a little lemon juice.
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CURRIED PUMPKIN FRITTERS

Steps:

• Whisk 1/2 cup each pumpkin puree and buttermilk, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon curry powder, 2 teaspoons sugar and 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt in a large bowl. Whisk in 1/2 cup each flour and fine cornmeal and 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder. Stir in 1/2 cup chopped cilantro and 2 chopped scallions. Working in batches, fry heaping tablespoonfuls of the batter in 365˚ F vegetable oil, turning once, until crisp, 4 to 5 minutes. Drain on paper towels and season with salt.

PUMPKIN FRITTERS

Steps:

• Lightly salt the grated pumpkin and put in a colander to drain for 1/2 an hour.
• Get out as much water as you can by squeezing the pumpkin between your hands, before proceeding with recipe.
• Lightly saute the onion and green onion in 1 tblsp olive oil in a non-stick skillet.
• In a bowl, combine the pumpkin with the onion and add the feta, egg and dill.
• When this is combined well, add the flour, a little at a time, until you have a very soft dough.
• Take a tablespoonful of the pumpkin dough and drop into a the flour you've put aside for dredging.
• Gently press down on the dough to give it a pillowey-disk shape.
• Turn over and dredge other side.
• Do this to a number of fritters (as many as you think will fit into your frying pan at one go without over-crowding).
• Heat oil (we use olive oil here in Greece, but a vegetable oil could be used instead) over medium heat and, when hot, add fritters.
• Fry until deep golden-brown on both sides.
• Remove to paper towels to drain.
• Repeat, using up remaining fritter dough.

CURRIED CORN FRITTERS

Steps:

• Sift flour and curry powder into medium mixing bowl. Form a well in the flour, and carefully mix in egg, milk, and salt. Mixture should be fairly thin, and may require more milk. Whisk until smooth if any lumps exist. Set aside, and let rest for 10 minutes.
• Coat the bottom of a heavy frying pan with oil, and heat to medium-high. Stir corn into mixture, and drop batter by the spoonful into pan. Fry fritters until golden brown, about 2 minutes per side. Serve hot or cold.