Quick Apple Fritters
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 large Granny Smith apples – peeled, cored and cut into 1/4-inch dice
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- ½ cup sparkling apple cider
- 2 cups vegetable oil for frying
Glaze or cinnamon-sugar coating:
- ½ cup confectioners’ sugar, or more as needed
- 1 tablespoon sparkling apple cider, or as needed to make glaze or just use the liquid from pre-cooking the apples.
OR
1/2 cup sugar + 1 tbsp ground cinnamon, whisk this up, and toss the fritters
sub lemonade for sparkling water, 3:1 water:lemon juice, sugarto taste
6 tbsp water, 2 tbsp lemon juice, 1-2 tbsp sugar (to taste)
- melt butter on med-high, cook until golden-brown (2-3 mins)
- add apples, cook until edges start to soften (3-4 mins)
- sprinkle 1 tbsp sugar, cook another 2 minutes
- remove from heat, strain, let cool to room temp – save the liquid
- whisk dry ingredients until well-combined
- separate large bowl, whisk egg, 1/4c sugar, melted butter
- add apples, sparkling apple cider
- add flour, and stir until the flour is just incorporated
- Fry 2tbsp slightly flattened balls in 350F neutral oil – don’t crowd the pot
- Fry until small bubbles appear (approx 2 minutes), flip, cook until nicely browned (2 more minutes)
- let dry on a paper-towel-lined plate
Glaze – powdered sugar + cinnamon + enough of whichever liquid you’re using to form a smooth glaze that’s just runny enough to drizzle
BONUS RECIPE – 3 ingredient donuts???
1.5 cups self-rising flour
2 tbsp sugar
3/4 cup milk
whisk the dry, add the milk, stir up until dough forms.
roll up balls, deep fry 350F in batches, yadd yadda yadda
NOTE self-rising flour =
1.5 cup flour + 2.25tsp baking powder + 1/2 tsp less a pinch salt
Deep-fried garlic
- blanch peeled garlic in salted water 3-4 minutes (longer cook time = milder, but risk turning mushy)
- plunge into ice bath
- 3-step breading : flour, egg, panko
- deep fry until golden brown
- drain on paper towel
- serve