Boxing Day fritters

A recipe from our friends at Love Food Hate Waste

Transform your Christmas leftovers into these crispy, golden Boxing Day Fritters! This easy recipe combines festive flavours from your Christmas dinner meats with your leftover roasted veggies. Perfect for the barbeque or a hot pan, these versatile fritters are the perfect way to pack all your holiday flavours into one bite!

Ingredients

• ½ cup onion, shallots or spring onion
• 2 cups leftover Christmas meat such as ham or turkey
• 1 cup leftover roasted Christmas vegetables such as pumpkin and potatoes
• 1 cup baby spinach
• 2 cups milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup peas
• 200g feta cheese
• 1 ½ cups wholemeal flour
• 1 ½ self-raising flour
• Salt and pepper, to season

Method

1. Place egg and eschalots in a food processor. Blend for 10 seconds on low speed.
2. Add spinach, milk and peas and blend for 10 seconds.
3. Add ham, crumbled cheese, roasted vegetables, salt and pepper and pulse 10 times.
4. Add mixture to a bowl and stir in flour.
5. Heat the barbecue or a pan over medium high heat with 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Add 1 heaped tablespoon of batter to pan and cook 2-3 minutes each side until golden. Makes 30 fritters.

Cooking tips

• You can use whatever type of cheese you have.
• If you don’t have a blender or food processor, finely chop the onions, meat and vegetables. Whisk the eggs with the milk and then combine all of the ingredients.