Try some fried green beans...
 

Get some fresh string beans at the market. Serve it with Ranch Dressing. Use a tempura type batter but you may want to spice it up with something hot, cayenne pepper, lousiana hot sauce, etc.

Swimmin' M

Well, I ended up making fried pickles tonight.

FYI, if you use half-sours, or "fresh" pickles, you will end up with a more crunchy inside. Full sours and pickles that have been in brine for a while will render a slightly limper finger food (though just as good).

I put habanero hot sauce on mine, 'cause I put hot sauce on everything fried, but ranch might have worked too...

I believe I have tried some of that from a former colleague few years ago (was a colleague back then) who brought some samples to the office and though it was somehow rich in taste, I recalled it was quite overly greasy as well. Oh well, guess the level of greasiness depends on who made and cooked them. :)

Again there's a problem of seasonal availability, but fried blossoms from a zucchini are great as well... Dip it in some egg, toss in seasoned flower, and throw on into the frying pan!

And a terrific way of avoiding the Zucchini Scourge. I'd like to add that
it's traditional to put a treat in the flower (a small cube of cheese, for
example) and fold over the petals before egging and flouring (or
dipping in batter).

That's a great idea! Thanks!

Deep-fried mars bar. Scotland's finest.

This is the European Mars, which is the US Milky Way, and not the domestic Almond version, correct?

It doesn't have any almonds in, no. As for the rest of it, I have no idea. A lot of that type of UK chocolate is domestic-only, due to different regulations on the use of vegetable fats, anyway.

So since "vegetable fats" are used, this is a fried veggie snack:p?

It was until recently.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/may/14/foodanddrink :(

Many the vegetarians in Scotland that I knew who would eat a scaldingly hot deep fried mars bar or White Pudding with their chips late on a bitterly cold night in Glasgow after a music event.
Those with the strongest constitutions might have a slice of deep fried pizza.

All were fried veggie snacks.

Mars deserted them last year by adding animal fats to their bars. It was a cruel, treacherous blow :td::td::td:

Trader Joes has some pretty good Tempura Veggies, they are around $5 a box. Also, a buddy told me Hooters has fried pickles, not sure where else to get them in NJ.

Thumbs up for Pakora...I really like the chickpea batter (almost like a fritter batter) with interesting veggies inside. They're pretty durable and hold up well on an Indian buffet table.

Battered and deep fried asparagus spears, a la the Stockton Asparagus Festival, are great! Add a little grated cheese or a ranch dressing for dipping and I could make a meal out of them!

BTW, for those that are going to be around Stockton in April, the Festival is April 25-27 this year. It's a fun festival and, overall, maybe the best food of any of the food fests that I've attended.

http://www.asparagusfest.com/

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