Learn how to make Kate's Patch Fritters. The most delicious way to use any veg you have plenty of in the summer. It's your new favourite recipe for the glut of courgettes at the patch!
No need for a fancy food processor here, you can grate or roughly chop your veg & use your hands as your utensils!
Growing Tips:
- Habanero chilli are more fruity than spicy, they grow best undercover or even potted inside your house.
- Spring onions are fantastic things to grow all year round! They can even over-winter. A great way to add big flavour to any dish, raw or cooked.
- Garlic chives are perennial and will flower twice a year, their pretty purple petals add a pop of colour to your food and are so tasty!
- Beetroots are superfoods, by growing your own, you enjoy a much less earthy taste than supermarket varieties
Ingredients:
Courgette
Carrot
Cylindra beetroot
White Lisbon; Spring onion
Chives ( & chive flowers)
Garlic
Nigella seeds
Smoked paprika
Habanero chilli
Egg
Organic spelt flour (or gluten-free options such as gram flour for a beautiful golden colour)
How to:
- Chop the tops of the carrot & beetroot and grate
- Chop the courgette for a variety of textures
- Add sliced spring onion
- Chop up your chilli and add this into your mix of veg with some garlic chives, herbs & spices.
- Add a beaten egg to your mixture & salt and pepper
- Add 4 tbsp of flour
- Mix to combine all of the herbs, spices and flavour - don’t over-mix so you can still see the differences in colours and textures
- Shape into patties
- Drizzle oil in a pan and pop on medium heat
- Shallow Fry - or half bake in the oven before frying
- Wait until they hold together before flipping them
- Perfect with some yoghurt on top, you can add some harissa to this for extra deliciousness!
- Garnish with fresh herbs and lemon to taste