Crispy Fried Grits Fritters made from food grits with bacon, corn, and greenish onion. Dip them successful a saccharine and spicy capsicum jelly condiment for an appetizer with tons of confederate flair.
I’m a large instrumentality of thing that tin beryllium eaten with your fingers: hushpuppies, beignets, you sanction it. These grits fritters are truthful delicious, you’ll beryllium popping 1 close aft the different into your mouth.
The grits are made up of clip and refrigerated to steadfast them up. If you navigator a large batch of grits for breakfast, you could usage the leftovers to marque Grits Fritters.
Once chilled they are casual to signifier into balls which are past dropped successful an ovum lavation and rolled successful Panko crumbs. Fry them successful 350 grade lipid until golden.
Easy Pepper Jelly Sauce
They are crunchy connected the extracurricular and creamy and cheesy connected the inside. Grits Fritters taste large connected their own, but adjacent amended dipped successful a elemental capsicum jelly condiment made with jarred Red Pepper Jelly, pome cider vinegar, and dijon mustard.
If you person amusive eating fritters with your fingers, you should besides effort Fried Pimento Cheese Balls and Crawfish Etouffee Balls.
Grits Fritters Recipe Tip
The grits volition request to beryllium made astatine slightest 4 hours successful advance. Preferably a time successful beforehand due to the fact that you privation them chilled truthful that they acceptable up. This is indispensable for them to clasp their shape.
Recommended Equipment
- Dutch Oven- a Dutch Oven similar this one is cleanable for frying a holds a bully adjacent temperature.
- Deep Frying Thermometer- not indispensable but utile for keeping the lipid somesthesia successful the close range. I emotion this digital thermometer that tin easy beryllium clipped connected the broadside of a Dutch oven.
- Strainer- this KitchenAid All Purpose Strainer is cleanable for sportfishing fried foods retired of the oil.
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Grits Fritters
Ingredients
- 1 cup quick-cooking grits
- 4 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded extra-sharp achromatic cheddar cheese
- 6 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 2 green onions, minced
- 1/2 cup corn kernels
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 large eggs
- 3 cups Panko crumbs
- Vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup Red Pepper Jelly
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- Using 4 cups of beverage and 1 spoon salt, hole grits according to bundle directions. Remove grits from vigor and disturbance successful cheese, bacon, greenish onions, maize and some peppers. Pour into a lightly greased 8-inch quadrate pan. Loosely screen with integrative wrapper and chill 4 to 24 hours.
- Using your hands, rotation grits into 1 1/2-inch balls.
- In a bowl, whisk unneurotic eggs and 1/4 cupful water.
- Dip balls successful ovum substance and past rotation successful Panko crumbs to coat.
- Pour 2-3 inches of lipid successful a Dutch oven oregon heavy skillet. Heat lipid to 350 degrees.
- Fry fritters successful batches for 3 to 4 minutes, until aureate brownish connected each sides.
- Drain connected a insubstantial towel-lined plate. Serve warm.
- To marque Pepper Jelly Dipping Sauce, harvester capsicum jelly, mustard and vinegar successful a microwave harmless bowl. Stir well. Microwave for 20 seconds oregon until warm.
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Recipe adapted from Southern Living The Way to Fry: Fresh, fabulous recipes for the modern Southern cook
Originally posted October 29, 2014.
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