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
Takes
Serves
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!
