Carrot and cumin fritters
by Tavolino
Tasty grated carrot fritters flavored with cumin, served with a creamy Greek yogurt sauce. A simple and quick vegetarian dish, perfect as an appetizer or side dish.
Ingredients
- Carrots 300 g
- Garlic 2 cloves
- Chopped flat-leaf parsley 2 tbsp
- Ground cumin 2 tsp
- Flour 2 tbsp
- Eggs 3
- Salt 6 pinches
- Black pepper 4 pinches
- Olive oil 5 tbsp
- Greek yogurt 140 g
- Onion 0.5
- Lemon juice 1 tsp
Preparation
- 1
For the sauce, mix 140 g of Greek yogurt, 0.5 finely chopped onion, 1 tsp of parsley, 1 tsp of lemon juice, 1 tsp of cumin, 1 tbsp of olive oil, and 2 pinches of salt.
- 2
Keep the sauce in the refrigerator.
- 3
Peel 300 g of carrots and grate them into a bowl.
- 4
Peel 2 cloves of garlic and grate them over the carrots.
- 5
Add 1 tbsp of parsley, 1 tsp of cumin, 2 tbsp of flour, 4 pinches of salt, and 4 pinches of black pepper. Mix everything together.
- 6
Beat 3 eggs and fold them into the carrot mixture.
- 7
Heat 4 tbsp of olive oil in a large non-stick skillet.
- 8
Drop spoonfuls of the mixture into the hot skillet to form the fritters.
- 9
Brown the fritters for about 5 minutes on one side.
- 10
Flip the fritters and brown for 5 minutes on the other side.
- 11
Place the fritters on paper towels to remove excess oil.
- 12
Serve the fritters hot with the yogurt sauce.