I started off the day with this wonderful breakfast - my mom bought this bread thingy at the Farmers Market on Saturday so I threw it on the grill pan, made some blackbean and jalapeno spread (1 can drained and rinsed blackbeans, 1 jalapeno, garlic and olive oil until desired consistency), and some scrambled eggs. Once it was all plated up I used some of that chipotle drizzle I picked up at Williams Sonoma over the top and well...DELISH!!! My goal this weekend is to try and recreate the chipotle drizzle so that I don't have to buy anymore!
Now home from my appointments I threw on my new apron and got to work with some of the fresh veggies from the market this weekend. Today's lunch creation was a baked sweet potato and zucchini fritter! Totally healthy and sticking with our meatless Monday theme!
Alrighty here we go...
Step 1 - get out that food processor or whatever tool you plan to use to grate the zucchini and sweet potato - Chop-pot-le was feeling a little neglected lately so she was happy to be back in service today!
Now she has tons of blades to use but this recipe called for a medium shred - make sure to read you blade so that you know which is which - the fine one would not have worked as well with this recipe!
Step 2 - get your sweet taters ready
Step 3 get them shredded - kinda looks like a carrot doesn't it!
Step 4 put the taters in a bowl and shred that zucchini - I didn't bother cleaning the bowl out this time as everything is getting mixed togther in the next step so why waste time!
Step 5 - mix the tater and zucchini together in a large bowl
As you can see I tried a smaller bowl...and well it was like a f-in veggie explosion! Bigger is apparently better in more than just Texas!
Step 6 - get out your seasonings -- now the recipe called for a chipotle seasoning but this happens to be one of my favorites to use so I eliminated the salt and pepper and just used this. Which can be found at Sam's Club for about $8
Step 7 - Follow the directions for the butter/egg mixture - now remember that when the butter comes out of the microwave it will be hot DO NOT PUT YOUR EGG IN UNTIL IT COOLS!!!! If you put the egg in right away it will cook! Come on - be smarter than that!!! Once the butter has cooled put the egg, flour and seasonings together and mix away
You can start by using a spoon but ultimately you will want to make sure everthing is coated so use your damn hands!
Step 9 - Make up your fritters and get those bad boys in the oven. I did change things up a bit from the original post here as I left them in at 375 the entire time, and then once that time was up I stuck them under the broiler for about 3 minutes just to get the top a little crisp!
Step 10 - Plate them up and enjoy! I did not make the dipping sauce that it called for mainly because the link was bad and well...I don't really care that much for mustard so I decided that I would combine the wasabi and chipotle drizzles and just swipe the fritter through the sauces! Ya not going to lie the shit was good and I am glad that I have leftovers for lunch tomorrow!
So like I said I was in the kitchen a lot today and actually did a total of 5 different recipes but I do not want to overwhelm anyone with too many things in one post....so I am going to post them individually so that if you would like to refer back to a specific recipe you don't have to do a ton of annoying scrolling!
Here is the original post for the above deliciousness!
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