New Recipes Celery Root Fritters - ★Cooking Recipes★

These crisp, golden fritters are positively creamy on the inside. Youll need a sugar thermometer to fry them. Yield is 8 servings.
Directions for: Celery Root Fritters

Ingredients

8 cup vegetable oil

cup all-purpose flour

tsp baking powder

tsp salt

Freshly cracked black pepper

cup cold beer (golden, not dark)

2 small celery roots (12 ounces each)

1 Granny Smith apple peeled, grated, and squeezed dry in paper towels

tsp chopped fresh sage

Directions

1. Heat oil in a 5-quart heavy pot on high heat until a sugar thermometer registers 365 degrees F.

2. Stir together flour, baking powder, salt and pepper and then add beer and stir to combine.

3. Allow batter to rest for 20 minutes or so, up to 1 hour.

4. Peel both of the celery roots.

5. Grate one of the celery roots (you should have 4 cups) and dice the other one (you should have 1 cup).

6. Stir apple, grated and diced celery root and sage into batter.

7. Form batter into flat 2-inch patties.

8. In batches, drop patties of batter into oil and fry until golden, about 5 to 7 minutes total, flipping fritters over halfway through cooking time.

9. Transfer fritters with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain.

10. Serve warm.

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