Carrot Fritters With Pistachio Sauce

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By Joe Yonan

These saccharine and savory Turkish carrot fritters are believed to day backmost to Ottoman palace kitchens, wherever dried fruits and nuts were often combined successful dishes. Chef José Andrés brought the thought backmost from a tiny store successful Istanbul and enactment them connected the paper astatine his D.C. edifice Zaytinya, wherever they became 1 of the astir fashionable mezze.

You'll extremity up with much of the affluent pistachio condiment than you request for this recipe, but you’ll beryllium gladsome to person it, arsenic it’s arsenic heavy — and delectable — arsenic a large hummus, bully for dipping into with earthy vegetables, spreading connected toast oregon slathering connected roasted oregon baked potatoes oregon saccharine potatoes. The fritters are peculiarly good suited to the aerial fryer; spot Variations for instructions.

Adapted from “Zaytinya” by José Andrés (Ecco, 2024).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4 (makes astir 20 fritters)

For the sauce

1 1/4 cups (5 3/4 ounces) earthy shelled pistachios, positive much for garnish
3/4 cupful positive 1 tablespoonful extra-virgin olive oil, divided
1/2 mean yellowish bulb (4 ounces total), thinly sliced
1/2 ail clove, chopped
1/4 cupful caller citrus juice
1/2 cupful lightly packed caller flat-leaf parsley, chopped
3/4 spoon good salt
1/4 spoon full achromatic peppercorns
Water, arsenic needed

For the fritters

1 tablespoonful extra-virgin olive oil
5 mean carrots (1 1/4 pounds), scrubbed, trimmed and chopped into 1/4-inch slices
2 tablespoons water, positive much if needed
1 cupful lightly packed caller flat-leaf parsley, chopped, positive leaves for garnish
1/2 cupful panko, positive much if needed
3 dried apricot halves, quartered
2 scallions, trimmed and chopped
1 ample egg
1/2 ail clove, chopped
1 tablespoonful chopped caller dill
1 tablespoonful chopped caller mint, positive leaves for garnish
3/4 spoon good salt
1/4 spoon saccharine smoked paprika
1/4 spoon cayenne pepper
1/4 spoon crushed achromatic pepper
3 tablespoons conifer nuts
2 cups canola lipid oregon different neutral oil, for frying

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (5 fritters positive 2 TB sauce)

Calories
424
Fat
34 g
Saturated Fat
4 g
Carbohydrates
27 g
Sodium
697 mg
Cholesterol
47 mg
Protein
7 g
Fiber
7 g
Sugar
11 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Zaytinya” by José Andrés (Ecco, 2024).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published March 17, 2024

Updated March 17, 2026