Spiced courgette fritters

Dinner with 13 ingredients.

Total time: 50 minutes

Ingredients

• sunflower oil for frying
• handful coriander leaves, picked and very roughly chopped
• 1 small red onion finely chopped
• 1 tablespoon garam masala
• 3 courgettes finely sliced
• 1 teaspoon ketchup
• 140 gram self-raising flour
• 1 green chilli finely chopped (optional)
• 0.5 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 red chilli halved, deseeded, finely sliced
• 2 tomatoes chopped to smithereens
• 1 large onion halved and finely sliced
• 1 teaspoon turmeric

Method

1. Tip all the fritter ingredients into a bowl. Gradually work in about 200ml cold water until everything is bound in a thick, spoonable batter (you can do this an hour ahead, but the fritters should be cooked at the last minute).
2. Heat a decent layer of oil in a large frying pan, then fry large spoonfuls of the batter for 2 mins until golden. Flip them over, cook on the other side, then lift onto kitchen paper and keep warm while you cook another batch.
3. Make the salsa by mixing all the ingredients together. Serve the fritters with the salsa for spooning over.