SWEETCORN FRITTERS WITH SWEET CHILLI DIP
Ingredients
- 1 large free-range egg
- 75g/2¾oz self-raising flour
- 198g tin sweetcorn
- undrained
- 2 spring onions
- trimmed and finely sliced
- 1 long green or red chilli
- finely chopped and seeds removed
- if preferred
- 25g/1oz fresh coriander leaves
- finely chopped
- ½ tsp flaked sea salt or ¼ tsp fine salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 4 tbsp natural yoghurt
- 2 tsp sweet chilli dipping sauce
- 2 vines cherry tomatoes
- to serve
- mixed leaves
- to serve
- lime wedges
- for squeezing
- 75g/2¾oz red cabbage
- very finely shredded
- 1 carrot
- peeled and roughly grated
- 2 spring onions
- trimmed and finely sliced
- ½ lime
- juice only
Directions
- Break the egg into a bowl and add the flour and 2 tablespoons of water. Beat with a wooden spoon until smooth and thick. Stir in the sweetcorn with the liquid contents of its tin and add the spring onions
- chilli
- coriander
- salt and lots of pepper. Mix well.
- Heat half of the oil in a large
- non-stick frying pan. Gently drop 3 large spoonfuls of sweetcorn batter into the pan
- keeping the fritters about 2–3cm/¾–1¼in apart. Flatten slightly with the back of a spoon. Cook over a medium–high heat for 3–4 minutes
- or until the surface of each fritter looks dry and set and the base is lightly browned.
- Turn over with a spatula and cook on the other side for a further 2–3 minutes
- or until lightly browned and cooked through. Transfer to a warmed plate
- lined with kitchen paper. Add the remaining oil to the pan and cook the remaining 3 fritters in the same way.
- While the fritters are cooking
- mix the yoghurt with the chilli sauce. For the slaw
- mix together the cabbage
- carrot
- spring onions and lime juice in a small bowl. Serve the fritters with the chilli-yogurt dip
- slaw
- tomatoes
- mixed leaves and lime wedges for squeezing over the top.

