Middle Eastern Cauliflower Fritters

[Thermomixer]

Middle Eastern Cauliflower Fritters



Number of People:  4

Ingredients:

120 g dried chickpeas
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp coriander seeds
1 tsp salt
1 cm fresh ginger
1 tsp ground turmeric
1/2 tsp ground pepper
1 large cauliflower, cut roughly into chunks
1 egg
Vegetable oil for frying

Preparation:

Place chickpeas into TM bowl and mill for 40 seconds on speed 9. Remove and set aside.

Place cumin and coriander seeds into TM bowl and dry roast for 8 minutes at 100°C on Speed 1. Add salt and mill for 10 seconds on Speed 9. Add ginger, turmeric and pepper and blend for 20 seconds on Speed 7. Scrape down sides after 10 seconds.

Remove the mixture from the bowl and keep aside. Place 200g of the cauliflower into the TM bowl and grate for 5 seconds on Speed 5. The cauliflower should be coarsely grated, not mush. Remove the cauliflower and add batches of cauliflower until it is all grated.

When the last batch of cauliflower has been grated, add the spice mixture and the egg to the cauliflower in the TM bowl. Mix for 10 seconds on Reverse and Speed 5 to mix, and then add this to the bowl with the remaining grated cauliflower and chickpea flour and mix all together.

The mixture can then be made into walnut-sized balls and fried in 1 cm of hot oil, or made into patties and grilled in a small amount of oil.

Serve with a chutney, pickle or sauce of your liking.

Tips/Hints:

This is based on a recipe from Stephanie Alexander's Cooks' Companion.

The Thermomix is able to produce the chickpea flour from dried chickpeas in seconds.

Again, the recipe can be modified to suit your own palate, but the basic idea is how to use cauliflower in interesting ways, and in a fried form that may interest children.

The mixture can be made into little balls and fried as per Stephanie's original recipe, or as I did, and make it into larger patties.




Originally posted here: http://thermomix-er.blogspot.com/2009/07/thermomix-cauliflower-chickpea-patties.html

[judydawn]

And so beautifully presented too Thermomixer What's that sauce you are serving with them please?
I love cauliflower fritters - my non-TMX recipe uses partly cooked cauli, are yours easy to work with being raw?

[Thermomixer]

They were very easy to work with.  A little soft, but the egg seemed to bind it well.  Stephanie's recipe called for the cauli to be grated.

The sauce was just a blend of some chili sauce, cucumber and yoghurt (from memory)

[brazen20au]

my kids wouldn't touch them but i would love them!

[Thermomixer]

Hey - new avatar - is that in response to the bicarb thread?

[brazen20au]

yep - good guess lol

[Ceejay]

Oooh yum... have to try this one... umm soon... *blush*

My list is getting sooooo long!! 

[judydawn]

My list is getting sooooo long!!  [/color]

It is certainly getting longer by the day ceejay, I will definitely not live long enough to do all mine now

[Thermomixer]

You'll live forever with the healthy food you are eating   

[bellarosa]

Hi all, I just thought I would share that I made these... except I did not have all the ingredients so I used some cauliflower, carrot, potato, onion and garlic and I had the chickpeas, so I made the chick pea powder. I did not have the spices, so I used curry powder and the ginger. It was a quiet dry mixture, so i added a couple extra eggs. I also crushed 100g of peanuts and added it to the mix. They turned out beautifully. I made a mint and youghurt mix as the dipping sauce.

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

They sound divine!!! 

[Thermomixer]

Good work bellarosa - the mixture that I made the first time was very watery.  Like the variations you made 

[Rowyfo]

When were you supposed to re-add the chickpea flour? Do you incorporate it at the adding it all together stage, or perhaps roll the cauli balls in them?

I just made them by mixing it all together and frying in balls. Got a thumbs up from husband and me

[Thermomixer]

Thanks Rowyfo - I have amended the recipe - the chickpea flour needs to be mixed with the cauliflower and egg mix.

[bartoncs]

I followed the recipe to the T however the mix was just crumble and didn't bind, when I tried to fry a pattie it all just fell apart.
Do I need more eggs or something?