Sweetcorn Fritoritos

Name: Sweetcorn Fritoritos
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Cuba
Ingredients: 2 tbsp. fresh coriander leaves; 1 egg; 2 boiled cobs sweetcorn or 1 × 200 g can sweetcorn, drained; sunflower oil, for deep-frying; ½ tbsp (double) cream, if needed; 2-4 tbsp plain flour; pinch of salt, plus extra to serve (optional); juice of 1 lime; demerara sugar (optional)

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

These delicious little Cuban snacks are great with a rum cocktail or a beer. The Cubans like them savoury, but those with a sweet tooth may like to dust them with sugar instead of salt. Dip your teaspoon in cold water before you put it in the sweetcorn batter, to help the mixture slip off easily into the hot oil.

Ingredients

2 boiled cobs sweetcorn or 1 × 200 g can sweetcorn, drained
1 egg

Americas
Cuba
Snack
Caribbean
Vegetarian

Method

If using corn cobs, cut the corn from the cobs by standing each cob on its stalk end and running a large knife down the sides. Put the corn - boiled or canned - in a blender or food processor with the egg, coriander and a pinch of salt. Add 2 tbsp. of the flour. Whizz briefly