Sweetcorn fritters with sweet chilli sauce
- Published: 30 Jun 07
- Updated: 18 Mar 24
These sweetcorn fritters with sweet chilli sauce double up as an easy starter or brilliant brunch dish. A food processor is used to do all the chopping too so it’s relatively fuss-free!
Check out these spiced sweetcorn fritters too with avocado, a fried egg and mint chutney.
Ingredients
- 375g fresh corn kernels, cut from about 3 corn cobs
- 1 large egg
- Handful fresh coriander leaves, chopped, plus extra sprigs to serve
- 90g plain flour, sifted
- 3⁄ tsp baking powder
- 2 spring onions, finely sliced
- 3tbsp grapeseed oil
- 1 cucumber, cut into batons, to serve
For the sweet chilli sauce
- 3 large red chillies, deseeded and chopped
- 250ml rice vinegar
- 2tsp sea salt
- 165g caster sugar
- 2 garlic cloves
Method
- Make the chilli sauce. Whizz the sauce ingredients in a food processor or blender. Scrape into a pan and cook over a medium-low heat for 10 minutes until thick. Set aside
- Preheat the oven to 140°C/fan120°C/gas 1.In a food processor, whizz half the corn with the egg, coriander, flour and baking powder. Place in a large bowl, add the spring onions and remaining corn and stir.
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a non-stick frying pan over a medium-high heat. Drop in 6 heaped tablespoons of the mixture. Cook for 1 minute each side, until golden, remove and drain on kitchen paper. Keep warm in the oven while you cook the rest, adding 1 tablespoon of oil with each batch. This should make 18.
- Put the sweet chilli sauce into individual serving dishes, pop the corn cakes on plates, garnish with coriander and serve with the cucumber batons and lime wedges, if you like.
- Recipe from July 2007 Issue
Nutrition
- Calories
- 306kcals
- Fat
- 8.2g (1.1g saturated)
- Protein
- 6g
- Carbohydrates
- 52.5g (32.3g sugars)
- Salt
- 1.9g
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