Carrot fritters
Posted by kathryn in A Balanced Diet, Vegetables and Kid's nutrition
While I don’t like carrots, I would be quite happy to try some of these recipes for carrot fritters.
Making vegetables into fritters is a good way of getting more vegies into your diet. They look and taste quite different from vegetables in their raw or steamed form. And the flavour can be oomphed up with herbs, cheese, spices and other tasty assortments.
- Bron Marshall has worked out Peter Rabbit’s favourite carrot & caraway fritters
- Running with Tweezers has a recipe for carrot & scallion fritters.
Both recipes are easy and while they include carrots, the flavour is enhanced, mellowed and changed by the addition of herbs and spices.
These recipes were posted as part of the I Love Milk & Cookies fritter challenge and her round-up includes yet more fritter ideas.
25 October, 2006
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If you’re looking for vegetable inspiration, you might try A Veggie Venture. I haven’t done fritters yet but have been blogging about vegetable side dishes for 18 months now, the first 12, every single day! YIKES. There’s a whole section just for carrots http://aveggieventuresrecipebox.blogspot.com/2005/03/alphabet-of-vegetables_113405171411816100.html#carrots. But … one great way I’ll recommend is to cook 1:1 carrots:potatoes together, then mash as usual. You’ll want to eat the whole pot! Good luck with the veggies, it’s addictive, as you’ll see! AK
Hi there Alanna
Thanks for your comment and thanks for the idea re carrot and potato mash.
The fritters post is part of a series I’ve been doing, about how to get kids and adults that “don’t like” vegetables to actually eat them. I’m a nutritionist, so it’s one of the challenges of my professional life.
My central theme is that vegetables taste differently when you cook and prepare them in different ways and therefore encouraging people to experiment a bit more widely – to find ways of eating they do like. I’ve been using carrots as an example – I don’t really like them, but through expermentation have found ways of preparing, that I do like.
And as a vegetarian and a nutritionist, vegetables are a huuuuuge part of my diet!
we’re just now trying to get our 15 month old to eat his veggies so I’ll definitely bookmark this site! and check out Alanna’s too.
Glad to hear you’ve found something useful Cooking Chat – let me know how it goes with the 15 month old. The most important things is to persist – if you’re little one doesn’t like a food one day, then keep on trying it – sometimes you have to offer a food many, many times before kids will consider it or like it. A bit of hard work and persistence at this age really does pay off dividends in the future.
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