Sweet and Savory Pumpkin Fritters (Gluten-free)

It’s almost Halloween! If you were wondering what to do with the pumpkin flesh after you’ve carved your jack-o-lantern look no further than this sweet and savory pumpkin fritter recipe! Using almond flour and tapioca flour makes this recipe gluten free and adds a little nuttiness to the flavor. If you don’t have these flours on hand and you’re good with gluten, then by all means use good, old fashioned flour!

Ingredients:

  • 1lb pumpkin flesh 
  • 1 cup almond flour 
  • 3/4 cup tapioca flour
  • 1 egg
  • 1tsp ground nutmeg
  • 2tsp cinnamon
  • 1tsp baking powder
  • oil of choice for pan frying. We used coconut oil.
  • 1 cup coconut milk 
  • 1tsp coarse salt 
  • 2tbs turbinado sugar 

Directions 

  1. First off, let’s cook the pumpkin flesh! Bring 1 quart of water to a boil in a medium-large pot. Add pumpkin flesh and a pinch of salt and reduce to a simmer. Cook until pumpkin has gone from a bright, light orange color to a deep shade of orange and it is very tender. Drain pumpkin flesh.
  2. In a blender or food processor combine drained pumpkin, coconut milk and egg and blend until smooth.
  3. In a large mixing bowl whisk all dry ingredients together.
  4. Pour pumpkin purée into the bowl with the dry ingredients and stir well until a thick creamy mixture has formed.
  5. In a frying pan get your cooking oil hot. You need enough to make a thick coat, not totally submerge the fritters.
  6. Using a spoon scoop batter and drop into the frying pan, smoothing them down to look like little thick pancakes. See picture below.

7. Fry for about 3 minutes on each side or until each side is a golden brown.                                           

Your fritters should look like this on each side when done.

8. Place on a paper towel-lined plate to soak up the oil and sprinkle with coarse salt.

We found that this was DELISH with some curry ketchup (ketchup+curry powder+coriander) but it’s so perfectly sweet and savory that we bet they would be so good with a drizzle of honey as well. However you serve it up, we hope you love it!

Sweet and Savory Pumpkin Fritters

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