{"id":7191,"date":"2013-07-05T22:07:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T02:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2013-07-05T22:08:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T02:08:55","slug":"leek-and-cardamom-fritters-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=7191","title":{"rendered":"Leek and cardamom fritters- recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My daughter in law, Willow, introduced me to these \u2013 she is a marvelous cook.\u00a0\u00a0 What I like<\/p>\n

best about Willow\u2019s cooking is that she knows no fear.\u00a0 She follows recipes and patterns-<\/p>\n

adapts freely according to what she has in stock and offers it up with a panache that invites<\/p>\n

you to enjoy her creation along with her.<\/p>\n

I am pretty much a pushover when it comes to 1) cardamom, 2)fritters, and 3) Leeks- so this<\/p>\n

recipe was almost tailor made for me to try.\u00a0 Let me warn you- there are a lot of steps- and it<\/p>\n

is a little fiddley- but I think the fritters are totally worth it for a special occasion- and the recipe<\/p>\n

makes a LOT of fritters that are really good as left overs.<\/p>\n

This recipe is an adaptation from a Yotam Ottolenghi creation- but I have not seen the original<\/p>\n

recipe and I adapted the one I did see- so and adaptation of an adaptation.<\/p>\n

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Ingredients: and <\/strong>method<\/em><\/p>\n

About 1\/2 cup of olive oil<\/p>\n

3 leeks, carefully cleaned and thinly sliced} sautee leeks and <\/em><\/p>\n

1 medium sweet onion, chopped fine} onion in 3 TBS oil for 10-15 minutes.<\/em><\/p>\n

1 tsp. ground cumin<\/p>\n

1\/2 tsp ground coriander<\/p>\n

1\/2 tsp ground cardamom<\/p>\n

1\/4 tsp\u00a0 or less ground cinnamon<\/p>\n

Mix together spices and add to sautee after 10 minutes, cook another 5 minutes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1\/2 tsp hot chili paste or one hot Thai pepper seeded, sliced<\/p>\n

1 cup chopped fresh parsley<\/p>\n

2\/3 cup chopped cilantro<\/p>\n

6 oz ricotta or cottage cheese<\/p>\n

Cool spices and leek\/onion mix and add to herb, pepper and cheese mixture.<\/em><\/p>\n

Add 1 tsp salt and set aside.<\/em><\/p>\n

in another bowl, mix together:<\/em><\/p>\n

1 cup AP flour<\/p>\n

1 1\/2 tsps baking powder<\/p>\n

1 whole egg<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup milk<\/p>\n

4 TBS melted butter<\/p>\n

Beat until you have a smooth batter.<\/em><\/p>\n

Whip one egg white to soft peak and fold into cooked leek mixture, then<\/em><\/p>\n

fold entire mixture into the batter.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fry on medium high heat with olive oil about 4 to 5 minutes a side- be careful<\/em><\/p>\n

not to make them too thick.\u00a0 Brown to golden and serve hot- with lemon wedges,<\/em><\/p>\n

if desired. <\/em><\/p>\n

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I drained them on paper towel before serving.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My daughter in law, Willow, introduced me to these \u2013 she is a marvelous cook.\u00a0\u00a0 What I like best about Willow\u2019s cooking is that she knows no fear.\u00a0 She follows recipes and patterns- adapts freely according to what she has … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-stepsonthejourney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7193,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions\/7193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}