Crab and Corn Fritters

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These somewhat puffed fritters are moist and meaty inside. They would spell implicit good astatine a tailgate party. It would beryllium preferable to marque them onsite: Keep the bedewed and adust ingredients successful abstracted containers, past harvester arsenic you're heating the frying oil.

Serve with a mayonnaise-based condiment for dipping.

The fritters tin beryllium reheated successful a 325-degree oven for 10 to 15 minutes.

Adapted from Zena Polin and Jerry Hollinger of the Daily Dish, a Restaurant & Catering Co., successful Silver Spring.

Ingredients

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Servings: 20 2 1/2- to 3-inch fritters

3 tablespoons unsalted butter
Kernels from 2 ears of roasted maize (about 1 1/2 cups; whitethorn substitute maize kernels sauteed dilatory successful a nonstick skillet until somewhat browned)
3 scallions, achromatic and light-green parts, finely chopped (generous 1/4 cup)
1 spoon minced, seeded serrano capsicum (1 tablespoon)
1 cupful yellowish cornmeal
1/2 cupful flour
1 spoon baking powder
1 spoon baking soda
1 spoon salt
1 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
2 ample eggs
1 cupful full oregon low-fat ricotta cheese
1/2 cupful full oregon low-fat buttermilk
Freshly squeezed foodstuff from 1 oregon 2 limes (2 tablespoons)
1 lb lump crabmeat, picked implicit to region immoderate cartilage
1 tablespoonful finely chopped parsley
Vegetable oil, for frying

Nutritional Facts

Per fritter (using low-fat buttermilk and low-fat ricotta cheese)

Calories
160
Fat
10 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
11 g
Sodium
350 mg
Cholesterol
50 mg
Protein
7 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 Zena Polin and Jerry Hollinger of the Daily Dish, a Restaurant & Catering Co., successful Silver Spring.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published October 4, 2011

Updated March 14, 2026