Fix With Five

Have you got something in the fridge or the pantry that you need to use soon? Are you down to the last of your pay or are you on a budget and can't afford to buy anything expensive (or anything at all)? Or are you just looking for something simple to cook? This is where Fix With Five comes in (or, at least that is my aim). I take up to five ingredients (basic kitchen staples like flour, sugar, eggs, milk, oil, salt and pepper excluded) and come up with something tasty for you to cook. In the photo above are the ingredients that I used tonight, to come up with -

 

 Easy Vegetable Fritters

Serves 1 as a main or 2 as a side dish

Ingredients:

1 potato, peeled, grated

1 zucchini, grated

125g tin of corn kernels, drained, rinsed

1 egg

1/2 cup plain flour

1tsp ground coriander seeds

approximately 1/4 cup milk

salt

pepper

Method:

Lightly whisk the egg in a bowl. Add all other ingredients and stir well. Heat a little olive oil in a non-stick frypan and place heaped spoonfuls of batter in, flattening them slightly. Cook until golden on each side. 

This should make eight medium sized fritters (cooked in two batches of four). You could use a teaspoon instead to make smaller fritters and serve them as an appetizer, perhaps replacing the thyme with some fresh dill, and serving them with cream cheese and a sprig of dill on top.

Feel free to add more vegetables: some frozen peas, grated carrot, diced onion or leek, maybe some sweet potato. Just watch that there's enough batter to hold everything together!