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Banana fritters

Serve banana fritters as garnish with grilled chicken or grilled pork dishes, add to breakfast cereals, or make it into a great fruit dessert adding a dollop of cream or some vanilla ice cream, and some syrup.

Ingredients

1 cup milk (dairy or vegetable milk)
2 banana (mashed)
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 egg (beaten)
1 tablespoon margarine
  cooking oil (for frying, vegetable oil)
1⁄2 cup sugar (confectioner's sugar, for dusting)

Instructions

Mix together mashed bananas and milk. Sift in the baking powder and salt. Blend in the eggs and margarine.

Heat oil in skillet.

Carefully drop spoonfuls of batter into the hot oil. Like you were making a pancake,

Fry until edges set, flip, fry until golden brown.

Transfer to a plate with paper towels to drain off excess oil / grease.

Sift a dusting of confectioner's sugar over fritters at serving time.

Yield
4 servings
Preparation time
20 minutes
Cooking time
35 minutes
Total time
55 minutes

Notes

This recipe serves 4 as side dish for meat or addition to a cereal bowl. To use as dessert, you may consider scaling up the recipe to increase the serving amount for adults.

Source

Southern recipes for kids