Looking for hiding vegetables from plain sight or just really into broccoli? Let’s make broccoli fritters and hide veggies no more!
Depending on where we live in the world, fritters can be a lot of things, but broccoli is not something we have in mind when the word fritters pop up in a casual conversation. Although people in various countries enjoy filling their bite sized fried dough with all sorts of things, in the US we haven’t dived into this delicacy more than using corn or apple as fritter filling.
Maybe we have a couple of dishes out in the wild that are technically fritters, like fried squid but we don’t really categorize them as such, even if by definition any food item that is cut to small pieces, battered then fried, is a fritter.
What are broccoli fritters?
In reality broccoli fritters, or at least the low carb keto version of them is much closer to hash browns since we don’t plunge them into a buttery, watery flour. Of course, we can stay true to the fritters name and simply dunk our broccoli into the batter then fry them in oil but then those won’t fit into many diets or even under the umbrella of healthy food.
Of course, we aren’t always after healthy food but probably very few of us so fond of broccoli or have them in such quantities that can’t do anything else with them but deep fry in flour coating, just to get rid of them somehow.
Luckily, we don’t even have to resort to such drastic measures because broccoli is enjoyable on its own. Those who like to live life to its limits though, there is always a bit of butter and cheese to take things to the next level, and that is especially true with broccoli.
Ingredients
- 1lb / 500g Broccoli (riced or finely chopped)
- 7 oz / 200g Cheddar (shredded)
- ½ piece / 100g Onion (finely chopped)
- 2 Eggs
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- Optional
- ½ teaspoon Black pepper
- ½ teaspoon Cayane
How to make Broccoli fritters
- Take the broccoli to florets. The smaller the better.
- Rice the broccoli florets by chopping them up in a food processor. Alternatively a fine shredder or sharp knife can also be used.
- Microwave the riced broccoli until totally heats up. It takes about two minutes on the highest setting.
- Get a cheesecloth or a not so precious kitchen cloth and wrap a batch of hot riced broccoli up tightly.
- Squeeze out the excess water as much as possible. 1lb broccoli may yield about a cup water.
- Add the cheddar, finely cut onion, eggs, salt and any optional spices and herbs then mix it well together.
- Make balls out of the broccoli fritters dough. Alternatively make disc shapes. Heat a tablespoon of oil to medium and add the broccoli balls.
- Spread them out by pressing them down with a spatula. Apply a thin film of oil on the spatula so it won’t stick.
- Fry until golden brown then flip to the other side. It takes about 4 minutes on medium heat per side.
Enjoy!
Broccoli Fritters Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 lb Broccoli riced or finely chopped
- 7 oz Cheddar shredded
- ½ Onion finely chopped
- 2 Eggs
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- Optional
- ½ teaspoon Black pepper
- ½ teaspoon Cayanne
Instructions
- Take the broccoli to florets. The smaller the better.
- Rice the broccoli florets by chopping them up in a food processor. Alternatively a fine shredder or sharp knife can also be used.
- Microwave the riced broccoli until totally heats up. It takes about two minutes on the highest setting.
- Get a cheesecloth or a not so precious kitchen cloth and wrap a batch of hot riced broccoli up tightly.
- Squeeze out the excess water as much as possible. 1lb broccoli may yield about a cup water.
- Add the cheddar, finely cut onion, eggs, salt and any optional spices and herbs then mix it well together.
- Make balls out of the broccoli fritters dough. Alternatively make disc shapes. Heat a tablespoon of oil to medium and add the broccoli balls.
- Spread them out by pressing them down with a spatula. Apply a thin film of oil on the spatula so it won’t stick.
- Fry until golden brown then flip to the other side. It takes about 4 minutes on medium heat per side.
Notes
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