Corn Fritters With Scallions

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup yellow cornmeal
• 3/4 cup unbleached flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• salt or pepper
• 1 pinch nutmeg (optional)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 green onions, thinly sliced, green and parts
• 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes, slightly crushed (optional)
• 6 ounces corn, either canned, fresh (reserve 1/4 cup liquid if using canned corn) or 6 ounces frozen corn (reserve 1/4 cup liquid if using canned corn)
• oil (for frying)

Recipe

• 1 in a medium bowl combine the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, salt, pepper and nutmeg.
• 2 in a large bowl beat the egg. stir in the milk and reserved corn liquid (or water).
• 3 stir in the dry ingredients and blend well.
• 4 stir in the corn (if using frozen corn, defrost first) and green onions. for best results, refrigerate batter for 30 minutes.
• 5 in a large pan heat some oil until it bubbles when a small amount of batter is dropped inches.
• 6 dip a utensil into the hot oil to coat and then measure out 1 rounded tablespoon of the cornmeal batter into the pan.
• 7 cook fritters until golden on one side then turn over and cook until golden on other side.
• 8 remove fritters from the pan, drain on paper towels and transfer to warming platter.
• 9 serve warm with garnish of green onion slices and red pepper flakes if desired. season with salt and pepper if necessary.
• 10 yield: i eat these too fast to remember how many fritters the recipe yields! also, be sure your cornmeal is fresh.