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Sweet Potato Fritter, something sweet for iftaar.
Ingredients
1 large sweet potato
A crack of sea salt
2-3 Tblsps butter
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
Enough milk and or water to make a thick batter.
Method:
Peel the sweet potato and cut it into small cubes.
Add the cubes and salt to a glass bowl and microwave for 4mins till tender.
Mash roughly then add the butter, sugar, and vanilla essence and mash again.
Add in 2 eggs and stir well to combine.
Add the flour and baking powder with 1/4 cup of milk.
Stir well and adjust the thickness of the batter by adding more milk or water.
Add the oil to a pan and heat on medium
Scoop a Tblsp of batter into the pan and fry till brown and bubbles have formed on the top, flip and fry on the other side.
Remove from the oil and drain on kitchen paper.
Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar before serving.
Cinnamon sugar
Ingredients
2 Tblsps white sugar
2 Tblsps brown sugar
1 tsp fine cinnamon
Mix the ingredients together and store in a sealable container.
Prepared, tried, and tested Caashifa Adams Young
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I love sweet potato Esme so I’m definitely going to give these a try. Thanks so much for the recipe.
Hope you will love this one Sue, it’s a very traditional South African treat. Reminds me of my days when me belated Mom used to make them. Oh so so yummy