Broccoli & Cheese Oven-Baked Fritters
Recipe: #24734
August 20, 2016
Categories: Side Dishes, Snacks, Cheese, Eggs, Broccoli, Appetizers, Australian, Baby Shower, Birthday, Brunch, Christmas, Easter, Fathers Day Game/Sports Day, Mothers Day, New Years, St Patricks Day, Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Kosher Dairy, more
"I found this recipe on a recipe card from the fruit market. My DH is not a broccoli fan, but he really enjoyed these. Served with sweet chilli sauce these were wonderful although DH did prefer tomato sauce. For a gluten free version, I think GF breadcrumbs or almond meal would work well, and I also think you could add just a little fresh grated garlic to the recipe if you like garlic. NOTE: I did change this recipe a little when I made these, I used chopped cashews instead of salad seeds - I think pine nuts would be fantastic also. But salad seeds were listed in the original recipe."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (36.7 g)
- Calories 50.3
- Total Fat - 2.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.9 g
- Cholesterol - 28.7 mg
- Sodium - 78.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 4.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.7 g
- Sugars - 0.9 g
- Protein - 3.2 g
- Calcium - 59.4 mg
- Iron - 0.5 mg
- Vitamin C - 18.6 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 200°C fan-forced.
Step 2
Cut broccoli into even-sized florets and Boil, steam or microwave broccoli for 2-3 minutes until just tender.
Step 3
Drain, refresh in cold water then set aside on a plate lined with paper towel to dry and slightly cool.
Step 4
Whisk the eggs in a large bowl.
Step 5
Note: For this next step I used a food processor and pulsed just a few times just to get a finely chopped broccoli... do not process too much as the broccoli will go mushy.
Step 6
Finely chop broccoli and stir into eggs. Add cheese, breadcrumbs and seeds. Mix until well combined and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Step 7
Using your hands, roll the mixture into small balls (about the size of a ping-pong ball).
Step 8
Place balls onto a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden.
Step 9
Serve with sweet chilli or tomato sauce for dipping.
Tips
No special items needed.