Potato Fritters

 

Fritters are ingredients like vegetables, fruits, seafood and meats which have been battered and deep fried. There are 2 types of fritters - sweet and savoury. The sweet ones are mostly made with fruits and the savoury ones with vegetables, seafood and meats. Banana fritters, corn fritters, cempedak fritters and sweet potato fritters are some of the sweet fritters that we eat for breakfast and tea breaks. Vegetable fritters are savoury and good as snacks. Prawn fritters and minced pork fritters are also savoury ones and usually eaten during lunch or dinner.

While a bit of salt added into the batter for sweet fritters will enhance their tastes, ingredients like paprika, coriander, parsley, onions, chilies and seasonings of salt, pepper and light soya sauce make the savoury fritters delicious and us wanting for more. 

Ingredients:

• 3 medium sized potatoes
• 2 tbsp flour
• 3 tbsp rice flour
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp chili flakes
• 1 tsp chili padi, chopped
• 1 big stalk coriander, chopped
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 pepper
• 2 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1/4 cup water
• cooking oil

Method:

• Peel and grate the potatoes. You may wash the grated potatoes to remove some of the starch. However, I did not wash them.

• Add flour, rice flour, egg, chili flakes, chili padi, coriander, salt, pepper, light soy sauce and water to a mixing bowl.

• Mix these ingredients well.

• Add the grated potatoes to the bowl and mix them up with the ingredients in the bowl.

• If the batter is too thick, add more water, spoon by spoon. The batter should not be watery.

• Heat up a wok or pan with cooking oil.

• Once the oil is hot, scoop the batter into the wok or pan.

• Fry them till they are golden brown on one side.

• Flip the fritter to the other side to be fried till golden brown.

• Once done, ladle them onto a plate lined with kitchen towel to absorb additional oil from the fritter.

• Serve while they are hot.