Sometimes an experiment works! This was supposed to be a food joke, but actually we both really liked them!
Ingredients:-
50g of Frozen Peas
2 Tbsp of Gram Flour
2 Tbsp of Cornflour
1 Tbsp of Mint Sauce
1 Tsp of Dried Mint
1 Tsp of Garlic Granules
1 Tsp of Baked Powder
½ a Tsp of Turmeric
Soda Water
Salt & Pepper
Method:-
(1) Mix the dry ingredients.
(2) Add the Soda Water, enough to make a thick batter.
(3) Add the Peas.
(4) Spoon into a fryer in small batches and fry at 170c, until they float.
(5) Drain on kitchen paper and re-dunk when you’re ready to serve.
Although this is an obvious sign of our (OK my) decent into madness. It’s actually well worth the effort and really tasty…...
Serve with Fish & Chips with DIY Tartar Sauce. Jobs a good un….
Giant Yorkshire Puddings are a favourite here. A great way to fill up with inexpensive ingredients. But they do offer a bit of a challenged as Sue cannot have any Wheat / Gluten in here diet for medical reasons. So her recipe is always evolving. Jake from York Secret Helpers provided us with some Arrowroot from a commercial ingredients donation which they had received. Always good to try new recipe variations Sue created this. At first we though it was going to be a total failure. But it's just a slow starter! The results as you can see were pretty impressive. What you can't see in the picture is that the texture was considerably better than our previous recipe without the “Suggy bottom” Yorkshires sometimes have. In fact this is probably better than the traditional Wheat based recipe....
Ingredients:-
100g Arrowroot
40g Potato Flour
3 Eggs
140Ml Milk
Salt & Pepper to season
Method:-
(1) Mix the Arrowroot, Potato Flour, Eggs, Salt and Pepper and combine well.
(2) Place a deep sided oven tray with Oil in the over on 220C to heat until smoking hot.
(3) Add the Milk and give your batter a really good whisk.
(4) Pour the batter into the oven tray and cook on the middle shelf for 30minutes, until golden brown.
We have ours with a roast Chicken dinner with lots of vegetables and gravy with the roasting juices from the Chicken.