Why onion fritters?

For some reason, we go through so many onions in our house. I don’t think there are many recipes that are missing that vital ingredient. So what do you do when you have too many onions? You make the onion the main ingredient! I know, just stay with me here on this, I promise it will be worth it.

My daughter loves fritters of almost every kind, and she loves onions, so we decided to take our zucchini fritter recipe and make onion fritters!

What do you need?

• 2 1/2-3 cups of onions
• 3/4 cups of non dairy milk (unflavored and unsweetened)
• 3/4 cups of all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2 TBSP corn meal (make sure it isn’t corn meal mix because that has sugar added)
• 1 TBSP sugar
• 1/2 tsp pink salt (plus more to sprinkle on top)
• 1/4 cup of chives (fresh or dried)

How to make your fritters!

• Add vegetable oil to a cast iron pan and heat it to med high (trust me, you will want to replace all your pans once you start using cast iron)
• Cut up your onions. Start with 2 1/2 cups and add more if you think your mix is too runny
• In a large bowl mix together all of your ingredients (or use a large plastic drink pitcher because kitchen hacks are epic and awesome. You’ll love this later when you go to pour the mix in the oil)
• If you want to make the mix a little thicker, add more corn meal instead of flour for better flavor
• Pour your mix into pancakes in your hot oil (make them as big or as small as you want)
• Fry your fritters until they are golden brown on both sides
• When you take them out of the oil, make sure you drain the excess oil off of them so that they don’t get all squishy. (I use a splatter screen or cooling rack over a plate since we don’t use paper towels in our house)
• While the fritters are still hot, sprinkle them with some more pink salt

What to add to your fritters

I know that some of these are going to sound strange, but give them a chance

• Applesauce
• vegan sour cream
• vegan spicy mayo (1 part sriracha sauce and 3 parts vegan mayo)
• what we call pepper sauce (1 part hot pepper relish and 2 parts ketchup)

Tell me what you thought about this recipe if you try it. Just remember until next time, anything you can make, I can probably make vegan!