Vegan Black-eyed Peas Fritters

If you would have went through my earlier post, you might have noticed that this week's blogging marathon is going to be Black-eyed peas based dishes. Yes am running this month's Mega marathon with 5ingredients for 5 weeks as theme under 'Cooking carnival',and i picked dry beans as my ingredients for 5 weeks.Every week, i will be showcasing a dry bean, after posting three different dishes with dry green peas, this week's posts are dishes with Black-eyed peas. My today's post is a deep fried beauties with black eyed peas as star ingredient. As almost like Akara - Nigerian's Black-eyed peas fritters which calls for grinding the soaked and deskinned black-eyed peas, these fritters are very easy to dish out. An excellent evening snacks to enjoy with a spicy sauce or else simply with ketchup. Coming to this fritters, its quite a cross between our Indian pakodas and hush puppies.

These fritters came out extremely crispy on the outside with a chewy inside. Cooked black-eyed peas when grinded with onions, garlic, bread crumbs spiced with salt,pepper powder, red chilly flakes and dijon mustard makes this fantastic fritters.  Actually while googling, i saw couple of black-eyed peas fritters however i combined few of those recipes to dish out my own version of black-eyed peas fritters. Though some of the black-eyed peas fritters went for an egg, i just skipped it and prepared this fritters as vegan version.These fritters are dangerously addictive, dont forget to make a huge batch else you will definitely regret later.

3cups Cooked black-eyed peas
1/2tsp Baking powder
1/4tsp Baking soda
2nos Onions (chopped)
1tsp Dijon mustard
1/4cup Bread crumbs
2tbsp All purpose flour
1/2tsp Pepper powder
1/2tsp Red chilly flakes
3nos Garlic cloves
1/4cup Chopped parsley leaves
Oil
Salt

Grind the cooked black-eyed peas,onions,garlic cloves with dijon mustard, pepper powder, red chilly flakes as fine paste with salt.

Take the grounded paste in a bowl, add the bread crumbs,chopped parsley leaves, baking powder, baking soda,all purpose flour to the mixture, mix well.

Heat oil for deep frying, once the oil is hot, wet your fingers and make small balls out of the mixture.

Drop the balls one by one to the hot oil, fry the balls in medium flame until they turns golden brown.

Remove the fritters and drain the excess oil with a paper towel.

Enjoy with your favourite sauces.

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