These fritters are a traditional dish from South Africa, called pampoenkoeky. They are a little bit savory, a little bit sweet, and a lot delicious.
South African Pumpkin Fritters
Servings
4 Servings
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoon vanilla sugar
- 15 ounce canned pumpkin not pumpkin pie filling
- 2 eggs separated
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
- In a small bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and vanilla sugar.
- In a large bowl, combine the pumpkin and egg yolks until well-combined.
- In a third bowl, whip the egg whites until soft peaks form.
- Alternately in batches, add the flour mixture and the egg whites to the pumpkin mixture, stirring after each addition.
- Coat a large skillet with cooking spray then set it over medium-low heat. Add a teaspoon of olive oil and when the oil shimmering, drop 4 large spoonfuls of the pumpkin mixture to form 3-inch fritters. You can make the fritters smaller and you will just end up with more fritters. Nothing wrong with that option!
- Let them cook until they bubbled around the edges, around 2 minutes, then flip the fritters and let them finish cooking for an additional 2 minutes, until nice and lightly browned. Repeat this process two more times until all of the fritters are cooked.
- Pile a ton of them high on a plate and pour pancake syrup all over the top. Another option is to coat them in crunchy cinnamon sugar or even serve them with mango salsa.
- Weight Watchers Note: Each pumpkin fritter is only 1 PointsPlus point. It doesn’t get any better than that!
mmm…i’m gonna have to try these for chanukah. yum.
and i love that you don’t have to deep fry them-always seems like such a waste of oil…(yes, i know, i worry more about that than the calories. 🙂 )
I just got a muffin top pan–this seems to be a perfect recipe for it.
I wonder if using teff or sorghum flour would work?
Thanks Tamar! I’m so glad your whole family could share them together. When I made them for the first time, I ate every last one and saved only one for my husband 🙂
My kids could not get enough of these fritters, I had to stave them off so I could save one for my husband. They were light and fluffy and full of flavor even with out any syrup. Thank you for a great recipe.
these sound like pumpkin latkes:)