Butternut Fritters
May 3, 2012 in Uncategorized
Warm butternut flapjacks smothered in cinammon sugar
I was reading up on the concept of Clean Eating recently and some of the concepts appealed to me as I have been trying to make healthier choices. Saying that in the (10 days short of a) year that I have been food blogging it was “Food Blogging that made me Fat” would be laughable and very immature to not take responsibility for what I have been putting into my body. A
utumn and Winter is a great time to get veggies in with all the soups and stews that are perfect to come home to after a trip home on a leaky bus but it doesn’t help the waistline if you follow that up with some hot chocolate and homemade butter cookies. I’m hesitating to type this next part but I have also signed up for the Winter Special at ABC boot camp that starts on 28 May. This winter special consists of 2 consecutive boot camps (5 days a week) for R850 (normal price R690 per camp). If you want to join me in the insanity, here is the link and tell them I sent you https://www.adventurebootcamp.co.za/register.php5?a=camp&id=3394. At the end of the day, I’m going to need your help to stick it out and go every night come rain, wind, runny nose and the like.
I found this recipe on the Pick n Pay website http://www.picknpay.co.za/picknpay/content/en/recipes and decided to make it for the kids on one rainy day over the long weekend. It went down better than I expected with many 2nd, 3rd and 4th helpings before we went off to Canal Walk to have a squizz at the Car Show. I have to feed my brood before we go out to stop the “I’m hungry” whine.
Cinnamon-spiced butternut flapjacks
500 grams butternuts, diced
1 large PnP egg
125 ml PnP low fat milk
7 ml PnP ground cinnamon
2 tbsp PnP brown sugar
1.5 cups self raising flour, bran-rich
60 ml PnP olive oil, or canola oil
1 tub PnP low fat yoghurt, for serving
- Makes about 16
- Simmer butternut in boiling water until cooked through
- Drain well and set aside
- Mash or purée butternut until smooth. Mix in egg, milk, cinnamon and sugar.
- Sift flour into wet ingredients and carefully fold through to combine. Leave to stand for 10-15 minutes.
- Heat oil in a large non-stick pan to a medium heat. Spoon mixture into pan.
- Cook until golden on both sides and cooked through
- Serve with a dollop of yoghurt, chopped nuts and a drizzle of maple syrup or honey
Instead of serving mine with the recommended yogurt, honey and nuts I made up a batch of cinnamon sugar using about half a cup of castor sugar and added 1 heaped tablespoon on cinnamon. I placed about 3 tablespoons of cinnamon sugar on a plate and drained the flapjacks on some paper towel before transferring them over to the sugar covered plate. I then sprinkled some more cinnamon sugar over the top and dusted off the excess before serving.
While I was typing this up, I was trying to decide what to call it. PnP calls them flapjacks but I would call them fritters due to the fruit/veg content. Can anyone help me out and explain the difference?
Jason said on May 3, 2012
They are most definitely fritters. I make something similar using my left over baked pumpkin. They look delicious!
rumtumtigger said on May 3, 2012
Thank you Jason. I really appreciate the visit and the comment
Sous Chef said on May 4, 2012
I’m impressed with the boot camp, shall we refer to you as GI Jane from now on?!
Hopefully you won’t be too exhausted to blog about it!
rumtumtigger said on May 4, 2012
Aargh! The pressure
. As I said to Mitzi, now that the information is on the blog it will (hopefully) be the incentive that I need to keep going even when I don’t want to. I know that I have got to do this for myself and start appreciating my health.
ninatimm said on May 4, 2012
Winter is certainly here and I think my family will do the happy dance if I make these!!
rumtumtigger said on May 4, 2012
Thanks Nina, its so great to hear from you. The recipe is perfect for those stormy Sunday’s coming up. I really hope the weather is not going to be as unfair as it was last year. Do you remember how we got all our great weather during the week and it stormed every weekend?
mitzireddy said on May 4, 2012
Would love to hear about your bootcamping experiences and those fritters look very moreish – butternut is such a versatile veg. Have a fab. weekend.
rumtumtigger said on May 4, 2012
Thx for the support Mitzi. I am glad I had the courage to blog about it otherwise I would chicken out. Blogging about my experience and hunting for healthy recipes might just be the incentive I need to keep going even when I can think up every excuse not to. Have a lovely weekend
addtotaste said on May 4, 2012
my dad loves pumpkin fritters, I wonder how he would like them with butternut
rumtumtigger said on May 4, 2012
Thanks for the comment. I’m actually not a pumpkin fritter fan but I really enjoyed these. Gotta get those veggies in wherever you can. Hope you’ll try them and let me know
pinkpolkadot said on May 29, 2012
The fritters are lookingh delicious! I hope you will be able to go to Bootcamp tonight in this cold! Do you stay in the blouberg area?
rumtumtigger said on May 30, 2012
Hi Pink, yes, I went last night. Doing situps under the stars is really something else. Takes your mind off the pain
. Yes, I live in Tableview and Big Bay is really a beautiful site to be tortured in…
pinkpolkadot said on May 31, 2012
Wow, I am impressed that you went in that weather. I also live in Tableview – we should get together some time?!
rumtumtigger said on June 1, 2012
That would be awesome. I have a buddy pass to bootcamp…(hint, hint). lol