Pumpkin Fritters and Crunchies with Oats and Pronutro

Around here in South Africa we don’t really celebrate Halloween much. We certainly don’t dress up and go door to door. However the shopping centre down the road certainly is doing their best to have trick or treating between shops, dress up competitions and events. We do get touched by the American culture on a lot of levels.

In any event, Merle from Jozi Kids asked me to do something for Halloween: a recipe or a craft or something. I eventually remembered that my mom used to make these fantastic pumpkin fritters when I was a child. So I sent her that recipe.

At the same time I am also adding in the recipe for crunchies. Both from my dearest mother. Thank you Mommy! 🙂

So, without further ado, here are the two recipes:

PUMPKIN FRITTERS:

Ingredients:

500g pumpkin (pre-cut in one of those packets is easier, but you can also use a quarter pumpkin like I did this time)

2 eggs

1 cup Flour

1 T sugar

½ t cinnamon (and some more for sprinkling over later).

1 t baking powder

Oil for frying

 

1. Steam the pumpkin, drain off as much water as you can and mash it.
2. Beat the eggs and add them.
3. Add the flour, sugar, cinnamon and baking powder.
4. Fry desert spoonfuls of the mixture in shallow oil.
5. They are ready to turn when you see little bubbles forming.
6. Drain on paper towels.
7. Shake some cinnamon over them.

 

CRUNCHIES:

This is a great recipe for those with kids who

1. -Won’t eat breakfast (my mom made this for me for that reason)
2. -Are addicted to biscuits (my child is)

 

 

Ingredients:

1.  ½ cup sugar
2. 1 dessert spoon syrup
3. 1 T boiling water
4. 1 cup oats
5. 1 egg
6. 1 cup flour
7. 1 cup Pronutro
8. 1 t bicarbonate of soda
9. 125g marge

1. Melt the marge and add the sugar and syrup.
2. In a separate cup, dissolve the bicarb in the boiling water.
3. In a separate bowl, mix the Pronutro, oats and flour.
4. Combine all ingredients and the egg.
5. Press in a pan and bake at 180 degrees for 15 minutes.

These recipes were originally published at JoziKids/ zaparents here and here.

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