Ackee Fritters

Ingredients

• Wheat flour

  White, all-purpose, enriched, bleached

  ½ cup or 63g

• Jamaican Ackee In Brine

  Spur Tree

  8 oz or 229g

• Salt

  Table

  ½ tsp or 3g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  ½ tsp or 1g

• Onions

  Raw

  1 small or 70g

• Red bell pepper

  Sweet, raw

  ½ medium or 60g

• Pepper or hot sauce

  Ready-to-serve

  1 tsp or 5g

• Egg

  Whole, fresh eggs

  1 medium or 44g

• Reduced fat milk

  Fluid, 2% milkfat, with added vitamin a and vitamin d

  ¾ cup or 183g

• Vegetable oil

  Natreon canola, high stability, non trans, high oleic (70%)

  1 cup or 224g

Directions

1. Chop the onions and dice the red bell pepper.
2. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, salt, and white pepper. Drain the ackee and set aside.
3. Add the chopped onions, diced red peppers, crushed ackee, and hot pepper sauce to the bowl. Mix well.
4. Mix in the beaten egg and gradually add milk to form a batter that drops easily from a spoon.
5. Heat the vegetable oil in a large skillet. Drop batter by tablespoonfuls and fry for 5 minutes, turning once, until golden brown. Drain on absorbent paper.