Sweet Potato Fritter

If you’re looking for a delicious healthy whole food plant based snack you’ve come to the right place. These sweet potato fritters are incredible. They burst with flavour and the batter adds such a nice texture. These are great sandwich fillings or even just on their own in your lunch box. We highly recommend trying them.

And here is a link to our hummus 3 ways recips as a delicious accompaniment:

Hummus 3 ways

Serves

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Ingredients

1 kg sweet potato
1 red onion
2 cloves of garlic
1 x 400g tin of chickpeas rinsed and drained (280g net weight)
few leaves of chopped coriander
1 tsp salt
3 tsp tamari
2 tsp ground cumin
generous pinch of black pepper
½ red chilli chopped finely
½ lemon (juiced)
150 g peas
3 tbsp sieved gram flour
1 pinch of salt
1 pinch of black pepper
50 ml water
1 ½ tbsp oil

Instructions

Chop the sweet potato into small chunks and roast on a baking tray at 180 C fan for 25 minutes or until cooked through. Finely chop the garlic, onion, chilli and coriander and in a large mixing bowl mash them together with your cooked sweet potatoes, chickpeas, 1 tsp salt, tamari, ground cumin, smoked paprika, a generous pinch of black pepper and lemon juice until it comes together
Add in your peas and mix through
Flatten out your mixture and cut into whatever shapes you like, we used a 7-8cm scone cutter
For the fritter coating mix together the gram flour, generous pinch of salt, pinch of black pepper and water
Put a non stick pan on a high heat, once it is hot reduce it to medium hot.
Coat each fritter in your gram flour mixture and fry until golden, about 3 minutes per side. Repeat until all cooked.
Leave to cool and then serve with hummus or whatever you’d like!