Recipe: Baked Bean Fritters

Saw this on tv and it looks nice.

Ingredients
2 tsp oil
1/2 onion, peeled and chopped
2 rashers bacon, diced
420g can Wattie’s Baked Beans
2 Tblsp chopped fresh parsley
3/4 cup cold mashed potato or kumara
1/2 cup self-raising flour
2 eggs, separated

Method

  1. Heat oil in a non stick frying pan, gently fry onion and bacon until tender but not brown. 
  2. In a bowl, combine Wattie’s Baked Beans, cooked onion and bacon, parsley, mashed potatoes, self raising flour and egg yolks. Mix well and season with salt and pepper.
  3. In a clean bowl beat the egg whites until stiff. Fold egg whites carefully into the bean mixture with a large metal spoon.
  4. Heat a little oil in the frying pan and cook large spoonfuls over a low to moderate heat for about 3 minutes each side. Keep warm in the oven until the remaining mixture is cooked. 
  5. Serve fritters with slices of fresh tomato, rocket and crispy rashers of bacon.
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