Recipe of the Week: Pumpkin Fritters for Halloween (2024)

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Where did pumpkin fritters originate? ›

These delicious fritters are a super versatile South African classic and take only 20 minutes to prepare. Serve them as a savory snack with spicy mango salsa or as a sweet dessert with some whipped cream and a drizzle of maple syrup.

For a 2-3 pound sugar pumpkin (also called a pie pumpkin), we like to bake it at 350 degrees Fahrenheit (176 Celsius) for 45-50 minutes. You'll know it's done when the skin is tender when pierced with a fork. Let the pumpkin cool slightly before handling.

History tells us that our English word is borrowed from Old French, “friture” which has its roots in the Latin word for “fry”. Typically made with made with a vegetable, like a corn fritter, fruit, like an apple fritter, and even meat, fritter batter can be sweet or spicy, as well as deep-fried, or pan-fried.

A fritter is a portion of meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables, or other ingredients which have been battered or breaded, or just a portion of dough without further ingredients, that is deep-fried. Fritters are prepared in both sweet and savory varieties. Fritter. Carrot and chickpea fritters.

Decorative pumpkins are grown for their appearance and the ease with which they can be carved while cooking pumpkins are grown for the flesh on the inside. As a result, cooking pumpkins will often feel heavier than they appear. The hefty weight is a telltale sign that they have much to offer your dinner plate.

While dogs can eat raw pumpkin, it might be harder to digest and can become a choking hazard. The rind is also a choking hazard and may cause an intestinal blockage. You can feed cooked or canned pumpkin to your dog—if it's 100% pumpkin with no added ingredients.

Pumpkins that haven't rotted yet have lots of use on farms—all kinds of livestock enjoy nibbling on the scraps. “Goats, chickens, pigs, and even the farm dogs enjoy munching on pumpkins, and they are filled with nutrients,” says Chriss Hall of Triple H Farm in Swansea, South Carolina.

What is the best pumpkin to cook with? ›

The best type of pumpkin for cooking and baking

It may seem tempting, but I wouldn't recommend cooking with the big pumpkins you normally get at the pumpkin patch. They tend to be very stringy and not flavorful. Instead, I recommend using a pie pumpkin or sugar pumpkin (pictured above).

Each fritter is about 300 calories, according to CalorieKing.com. Here are some ways a 145-pound person could burn off 600 calories. The precise number of calories a person burns are influenced by the person's age, body weight, gender, activity level and movement efficiency.

There are 197 calories in 2 Wheat Flour Fritter. * The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet.

Originating in Native American cuisine, they are a traditional sweet and savory snack in the Southern United States, as well as Indonesia where they are known as perkedel jagung or bakwan jagung.

They were created by Native Americans; now they're enjoyed as a snack in the American South, also in Indonesia, where they're knows as perkedel jagung or bakwan jagung. In the American South, the corn fritter is made of kernels of corn, egg, flour, milk, and melted butter.

Scientists believe that pumpkins originated in North America about 9000 years ago. The oldest pumpkin seeds have been found in Mexico and date back to somewhere between 7000-5550 B.C.. Pumpkins (along with other forms of squash) were a historically important food staple among Native Americans.

The Native Americans brought pumpkins as gifts to the first settlers, and taught them the many uses for pumpkin. This led to serving pumpkin pie at the first Thanksgiving in America about 50 years later.