These vegan Skinny Carrot Fritters are easy and healthy yet packed with incredible flavors. Along with being crispy and chewy in every bite, its kids friendly too.
In India fritters and chai is a common evening snack during rainy season. The aroma of chai and hot fritters out of the wok is mind blowing. Every time it rains here in Seattle I imagine the aroma of hot fritters. Hmmmm.
For quite sometime, I have been craving for those homemade fritters. However, I wanted to avoid deep fried ones. Therefore, I came up with my healthier version of these carrot fritters.
These were instant hit with my family and I satisfied my cravings easily also. In fact there were no leftovers and I was delighted.
I have tried other snacks as well which you may find interesting:
After few more attempts and taste testing, my family gave a heads up. So, I am here to this share this awesome carrot fritters recipe.
Ingredients you will need:
- Carrots
- Chickpea flour
- Cayenne pepper powder
- Salt
- Hot sauce
- Cilantro
- Panko crumbs
- Water
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Ingredients notes:
- Carrots – its a healthy vegetable with being a great source of vitamin A and fiber.
- Chickpea flour – even though its gluten free flour, it helps in binding this recipe and adds protein to it.
- Cayenne pepper powder – you may adjust it as per your taste but its important to flavor these fritters.
- Panko bread crumbs – its a Japanese bread crumbs but much more crunchier than regular bread crumbs. Moreover, its vegan which regular bread crumbs may not be.
How to make Skinny Carrot Fritters
Firstly, I combined all the ingredients in a ixing bowl and made a thick sticky batter.
Secondly, I heated a nonstick pan/griddle and greased it with cooking spray.
Next, I placed a spoonful of the batter on the hot nonstick. You may place about 5-6 fritters keeping an inch space between each.
Thereafter, with the help of the spatula, I flipped them over to the other side and let it cook until golden.
Afterwards, with the help of a flat spatula, I scooped out the out and placed them on the serving plate.
Lastly, I served them with ketchup.
My kids loved these and we all heartily enjoyed our evening snack.
These are so good that sometimes, I serve them as appetizer too.
Now, that you have gone through the steps, I insist that you quickly grab these ingredients and make these vegan fritters ASAP.
I guarantee your loved ones would appreciate these immensely.
These tastes best when served immediately. However, you may refrigerate the leftovers and air fry or microwave the next day.
Yes, carrots are very nutritious and its whole food vegetable. I used chickpea flour to bind which is a protein rich flour. Also, I used simple seasonings and some panko crumbs to make them crunchy. Overall, these are healthy and can be enjoyed frequently.
They are salty, crispy and chew altogether. It has nice flavors of carrots, subtleness of chickpea flour and perfectly seasoned. It might be slight spicy for kids so adjust as per taste.
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Skinny Carrot Fritters
Ingredients
- 2 cups baby carrots
- 1 cup chickpea flour
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper powder
- 3/4 tsp salt or as per taste
- 1/2 tbsp hot sauce/sriracha sauce
- 1 tbsp chopped cilantro
- 1/8 cup vegan bread crumbs/panko crumbs
- 1/8 cup water
Instructions
- Grind the carrots in a grinder/food processor. (You may grate the carrots as well if desired).
- In a mixing bowl combine all the ingredients and mix properly with a spoon. Let it stand for few minutes.
- In the meantime heat the nonstick pan/griddle in a medium flame. Grease the pan with cooking spray/oil.
- Pour the 1 tbsp. spoonful of the mix onto the pan and cook for some time.
- Once it starts to cook, flip to the other side and cook for few minutes or until light golden in color and lightly crispy in texture.
- Serve hot or at room temperature.
Notes
- This recipe yields 32 pieces and the serving size is 2 fritters per person.
- This recipe tastes best when served immediately. However, refrigerate the leftovers and warm it up in air fryer for crispier texture or simply in microwave.Â
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sophie says
I just made these, but with a few modification as I didn’t have everything on hand.
I will let you know how they turned out!
Thanks for the recipe 🙂