Onion and Carrot Fritters
Savory vegetable fritters with a lovely onion-carrot flavor! These are sure to please anyone who loves vegetables — carrots and onions in particular. As it turns out, you can even enjoy these veggies in fritter form. They're especially good with sour cream and fresh herbs. And if you serve them without telling the family what's inside, you'll get all kinds of reactions — even kids who won't touch onions and carrots the usual way will happily eat these.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Gather your ingredients. Carrots and onions are pretty juicy vegetables and release plenty of liquid, so unlike regular fritters, this batter doesn't need any kefir.
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Step 2:
Wash, peel, and grate the carrots. If you'd rather not have noticeable strands of carrot in the fritters, grate them on the finest side. A food processor speeds this up.
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Step 3:
Peel the onion and finely chop it with a knife.
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Step 4:
Put the prepped vegetables in a bowl and mix them together.
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Step 5:
Crack in one egg. Add ground black pepper and salt to taste. Mix so the egg is evenly distributed through the vegetables.
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Step 6:
Add the sifted flour to the egg-and-vegetable mixture. A couple of tablespoons is usually enough, but go by the consistency of the batter, since flour varies by brand — you may need a bit more or less. The batter should be thick, with no liquid pooling in the bowl.
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Step 7:
Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet. Spoon the vegetable batter onto the pan, about a tablespoon per fritter — don't make them too thick, so they cook through and the vegetables don't stay raw. Use the spoon to tidy the edges into nice round shapes. Fry on one side for about 10 minutes.
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Step 8:
Once the tops turn pale and the bottoms are golden, flip them and fry until golden on the other side. Take the finished fritters off the pan and serve. They're good hot or cold, especially with sour cream and fresh parsley. Enjoy!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Wheat flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
