Corn fritter

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Corn fritter
Native American cuisine
Region or stateAmericas, China, Southeast Asia
Created byNative Americans in the United States
Main ingredientsCorn, egg, flour, milk and butter

Corn fritters are fried cakes of a dough or batter made of, or containing a featured quantity of maize (

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.[1]

History

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techniques, however, which require ample supplies of cooking oil as well as equipment in which the oil can be heated to high temperatures.

European settlers learned recipes and processes for corn dishes from Native Americans, and soon devised their own cornmeal-based recipe variations of European breads made from grains available on that continent. The corn fritter probably was invented in the Southern United States, whose traditional cuisine contains a lot of deep fried foods.

On the other side of the world, maize seeds from the Americas were introduced into

wet rice. Coconut and palm oil have been essential elements of Indonesian cuisine for centuries. The deep fried technique using palm oil was probably borrowed from Portuguese colonists; and Indonesia and Myanmar (Burma) both have their own types of corn fritter, respectively called perkedel jagung or bakwan jagung and pyaungbu kyaw.[1]

Corn fritters at an event in Sonoma, California

Regional variations

Southern United States

Traditional corn fritters in the American South use

jam, fruit, honey, or cream. They may also be made with creamed corn, baked, and served with maple syrup. Corn fritters can be made to have a similar appearance to, and thus be mistaken for, johnnycake
.

They are sometimes called corn nuggets.[6]

Peru

Torrejas de choclo, typical Peruvian corn fritters.

Peruvian corn fritters, called torrejas de choclo, are made from

choclo (Peruvian corn), an Andean variety of corn, pepper, onion and eggs. They can deep fry in vegetable oil and is usually served savory to accompany other local dishes as an appetizer.[7]

Southeast Asia

Corn is believed to have been introduced in Southeast Asia from Central America in 16th century by the Portuguese or the Spanish as part of the Columbian exchange and has become integrated into Southeast Asian cuisines.[8]

Cambodia

Cambodian corn fritters, called poat chien (

glutinous rice flour fried in vegetable oil. They are eaten as a snack throughout the day.[9]

Indonesia

Bakwan jagung, Indonesian corn fritters

Indonesian corn fritters, a type of

appetizer.[10]

Bojonegoro

In Bojonegoro[11] and Tuban,[12] East Java, a corn fritter is called pelas. Unlike bakwan jagung, pelas uses corn which is ground with a stone mortar and pestle and mixed with spices.

Myanmar (Burma)

Burmese corn fritters, called pyaungbu kyaw (ပြောင်းဖူးကြော်), are a type of Burmese fritter. Pyaungbu kyaw consists of corn kernels battered in flour and eggs and deep-fried as disk-like fritters.[13][14] They are savory, and are similar to Indonesian bakwan jagung.

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b Elaine Louie. "Indonesian Corn Fritters". The New York Times.
  2. Anasazis
    circa 1000 AD
  3. ^ "Corn Bread". Indians.org.
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  5. ^ a b Hiller, Elizabeth O. (1918). The Corn Cook Book. P.F. Volland Co. pp. 73–75. Corn fritters.
  6. ^ Moss, Robert F. (2011-03-02). "An Orangeburg family spawns a loosely connected barbecue empire across S.C." Charleston City Paper. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  7. ^ "Torrejas de choclo: aprende a preparar un clásico chiclayano que se puede acompañar con todo". El Comercio (in Spanish). 4 July 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
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  9. ISBN 0395892538
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  10. ^ Anita (12 June 2013). "Bakwan Jagung – Corn Fritter". Daily Coking Quest. Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  11. ^ Fadllan, Nellia. "Pelas Jagung Bojonegoro". dimanaaja.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  12. ^ S, Heri. "Pelas Palang, Kudapan Khas Warga Pesisir Tuban". tubankab.go.id (in Indonesian). Government of Tuban Regency. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  13. ^ "ပြောင်းဖူးကြော် ကြွပ်ကြွပ်ရွရွလေး ကြော်စားကြမယ်". MyFood Myanmar (in Burmese). 2018-08-25. Archived from the original on 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
  14. ^ Aurora (2019-09-29). "ချိုဆိမ့်ဆိမ့်အရသာလေးနဲ့ အကြိုက်တွေ့ကြမယ့် ချိစ်ပြောင်းဖူးကြော်". ဧရာဝတီ (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 2019-10-05. Retrieved 2021-11-03.
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