Sprouts had really great corn on sale last week. Eight ears for $1.00 so yesterday I cooked up my eight ears and thought I’d make some sort of corn fritter with some of the corn. I wanted to really go with the corn flavor so I used masa corn flour. Masa is corn flour that is cooked with alkaline, it’s also known as a nixtamalzation process. It’s that yummy taste that makes corn bread taste different from corn tortillas. I wanted to spike the fritters with pepper and my freezer is still well stocked with Fire Roasted Hatch Chile Peppers so that was an obvious choice for me but you can use whatever pepper you like. These fritters came out very crispy with sweet pops of corn, corn flavors and they are spiked with Fired Roasted Hatch Chile Taste.

Ingredients for about 6 servings

2 cups corn kernels

1/2 cup masa flour (treated corn flour with that yummy taste that makes tacos and nachos taste different than corn muffins)

1/2 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 Tablespoons unsalted butter – melted

1 hatch chile pepper – fire roasted with stem and seeds removed – hard skin rubbed off and well chopped

1/4 cup scallions – sliced thin

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

pinch ground white pepper

1/2 teaspoon course sea salt

1/4 teaspoon ground annatto

1 teaspoon sugar

fresh ground sea salt to taste for finishing

fresh ground black pepper for finishing

oil for frying – I used canola

Directions

Fill a fry pan with a good amount of oil that looks like this on slightly over medium heat. You want the oil around 350 degrees F.

You want the oil to look like this when you fry. If your oil is too low the fritter will fall apart but when it’s just right the fritters quickly brown on the bottom and sides and when you see the bubbles on the top of the fritter then you turn them over.

When the fritters are brown on both sides…try to shake off the oil and let them drain on a stack of paper towels. Hit the fritters with fresh crushed sea salt and fresh ground black pepper.

I think a little bit of fresh cilantro, sliced scallions and sour cream with go well with these South West Style Fritters.

Tasty! Not too Spicy with a nice corn taste and a nice crunch.