Corn Fritters/Apple Fritters

[Mary Kay]

A friend was talking to me about corn fritters yesterday and I got to thinking I could no doubt invent some raw. So I did!

They turned out great, but I'm looking for you folks to try to lessen the fat content a bit with some ideas. I did two batches and both turned out the same:

Here's what I did:

1 part dried almond meal
1 part ground flax seeds
splash EVOO
splash maple syrup
pinch salt

Add a little water to make it a thick slurry. Add fresh corn or apples diced into tiny pieces. I added as many as the recipe could tolerate and still hold together. Blob onto dehydrator sheet. Poke little indentations into it so it dries quicker.

In another batch, instead of adding EVOO, I added ground pine nuts for their oil content. Both turned out well.

Mine were in the D for only six hours...think they really need overnight. Where the outside is crunchy and the inside is a little soft.

Now I'd like to lessen the fat content a little. Was going to add some carrot pulp, or grated zucchini etc. If any of you do these experiments, pls let us know here in this thread.

AFTER I made them (I just love inventing things!) I thought of looking up "raw food corn apple fritters" and lo and behold I found ONE lonely listing. It was on the menu of a raw restaurant in NYC, but no recipe.

Very easy. Since it's corn and apple season here, seems appropriate!

You could even make the corn fritters a little savory, with a little onion, garlic, parsley etc, but this was only my first try and I was excited to share!

HTH,

Mary Kay

[Veganforlife]

Oh boy! That sounds YUM-OH!!!

::rubbing hands together::

[spicyfull]

Sounds like a RAWinner.......Thanks for Sharing.

[VibrantVessel]

I tried making them!

I grated two apples in my processor - super easy & liked the look of the little strips. After I made them realized that cinnamon & raisins would be awesome additions. They were really good though without ...

Also tried the corn fritters with a little onion, carrots & garlic. Actually didn't like these as well as the apple fritters. I processed all the ingredients together on this one, adding a few extra corn kernels at the end. It created a different texture doing this.

Thanks for the recipes Mary Kay! P.S. I'm going to share them on a new blog I started, ok? http://www.vibrantvessel.com/raw-food-blog.html (off to double-check sharing rights ...)

[Mary Kay]

Go ahead and share it on your blog. No prob. Glad you liked 'em.

With the addition of raisins, they might be more like cookies and you could flatten them out to make them look like it - and that wouldn't be bad either, I'd guess!

Mary Kay