Corn & Zucchini Fritters

Comfort food. What do you think of when someone says comfort food?  Most of my freinds seem to turn to chocolate in some form.  For me it is baked potato, or these fritters ,with lashings of homemade brown sauce.

 

The garden is producing well at this time of year and I have bucket loads of corn and zucchinis so this was Saturday breakfast - you know those weekend breakfasts when you have time not just to make, but also to enjoy and linger over.

 

Mum used to make these for a quick tea in the days when we ate our main meals in the middle of the day.  In my house they have become breakfast food - and my excuse to eat more homemade sauce.

 

There isn't really a recipe, more a 'combination of prefered ingredients' held together by a basic batter. 

Into these ones went chopped red onion,

cooked corn sliced off the cob,

grated zucchini (courgette if you prefer that name),

some finely diced up bacon ends,

chopped fresh herbs,

freshly ground black pepper

an egg,

1 cup of self-raising flour,

a dollop (say 3 tablespoons) of cooking oil or melted butter, and

enough milk to mix it into a batter that drops (rather than pours) off a big spoon



Shallow fry them over a medium heat.  It is not fashionable to use fat these days, but I prefer to skim some caul-fat over the skillet rather than pour in oil which spits and spatters about, then dollop the batter in.  Turn them over when bubbles start to rise in the top of the uncooked side, and when golden brown both sides serve and enjoy.

 

Next week I'll try to remember to share my brown sauce recipe

 

For those of you living in parts of the world where you can get tins of creamed corn, use that.  It makes them even better.