Banana Fritters

Name: Banana Fritters
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 500 ml vegetable oil for frying; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or seeds of one vanilla pod); 1 egg, beaten; 65 g plain flour; 1 tablespoon caster sugar; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 4 tablespoons milk; 2 bananas (or 4 finger bananas)

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from Brixton Village

By Miss South

Published 2014

About

You may not have had a banana fritter since the 70s, but these Brazilian-inspired ones will remind you just how good they are served piping hot with a scoop of ice cream. If you can get those small sweet finger bananas, they are even more delicious.

Ingredients

1 egg, beaten
4 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla ex

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Mix the egg, milk and vanilla extract or seeds in one bowl and the flour, sugar, cinnamon and baking powder in another. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and whisk to make a batter. Don’t over mix it, and it is best if you allow it to rest for 10 minutes or so.

Heat the oil in a deep pan over a medium heat until it shimmers gently and a cube of bread dropped into it sizzles without