Ackee Fritters

Ingredients

• Wheat flour

  White, all-purpose, enriched, bleached

  ½ cup or 63g

• Jamaican Ackee In Brine

  Spur Tree

  8 oz or 229g

• Salt

  Table

  ½ tsp or 3g

• Pepper

  Spices, white

  ½ tsp, ground or 1g

• Onions

  Raw

  1 small or 70g

• Red bell pepper

  Sweet, raw

  ½ medium or 60g

• Pepper or hot sauce

  Ready-to-serve

  1 tsp or 5g

• Egg

  Whole, fresh eggs

  1 medium or 44g

• Whole milk

  3.25% milkfat, with added vitamin D

  ¾ cup or 183g

• Vegetable oil

  Natreon canola, high stability, non trans, high oleic (70%)

  1 cup or 224g

Directions

1. Chop onions and dice red pepper.
2. Sift together flour, salt, and white pepper in a large bowl. Drain ackee and set aside.
3. Add onions, diced red peppers, crushed ackee, and hot pepper sauce to the bowl. Mix well.
4. Mix in beaten egg and gradually add milk to form a batter that drops easily from a spoon.
5. Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet. Drop batter by tablespoonfuls; fry for 5 minutes, turning once, until golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper.