I want a fried veggie snack. What should it be?
 

Last week I made fried okra to go along with some homemade kebabs and hummus I served to some close friends. Needless to say, the fried finger food was the most popular. I didn't even use the traditional recipe with the buttermilk etc., just breaded and fried the suckers, and they were delicious!

Anyway, I feel like eating something fried again. I'd kill for some fried green tomatoes, but seeing as it's February in NYC, these are out.

Can you suggest something else that I could fry up that would have a similar sweet-sour combination that green tomatoes render?

different texture

baby artichokes, sliced, flash fried and drizzled with lemon juice. If they are really tender, you can batter and fry them. In season now.

Are tomatillos in season now? Not something I can get hold of in London, alas.
http://gourmetsleuth.com/tomatillos.htm (oops... no)

How about nopalitos?

Indians love to fry vegetables in oil! :) Have you considered making pakora? Allegedly, you can make this with tomatoes, but I've never had that... .

Hmm I don't know if they're in season, but they're definitely around. Thanks for the suggestion!

3TAL, I think i'll save my indian-style cooking adventures for when I visit Sri Lanka next month! But i should definitely try to make pakora someday. I bought a fryer a couple of years ago, and haven't really used it much. Time to get it out and working. Also, to join a gym. ;)

Fried Artichoke hearts, ala Fishermen's Wharf, Monterey, CA. With some dipping sauce like thousand island dressing or honey mustard, ranch, etc. Great.

Sounds good--just at a glance, looks like a distant cousin (in the good sense ;) ) of vegetable tempura. I should try making some, one of my co-workers has been plying me with stuff from her mom's kitchen and I want to be able to answer with some Indian goodies of my own.

To answer the OP, I haven't tried making these but I've had them (at Ted's Montana Grill): fried pickles. Sounds odd but it works. Not sure exactly what they use to do it, though.

Fried pickles *are* interesting. Guss' Pickles is just two blocks away...

I might have to try those tonight. :)

Plaintain, perhaps?

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I had pakora earlier today. So yummy! :)

Samosa's?
 

Pakora's are sure yummy, but Samosa's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samosa) are yummier!! These are a potatos, peas and onion spice mixture fried in a lentil flour batter..

Fried Pickles, a southern favorite.

Take the larger sweet sliced bread-and-butter type of pickles, bread 'em and fry'em. Garanteed to please.

A little hot spices in the breading would be even tastier!

JP

Samosas are peps, but I thought the OP wanted something more along the lines of fried okra, hence the pakora suggestion. :)

You'll have to send me some. :)

(Two weeks from now, a box full of greasy rotting fried veggies shows up at my door...)

I am seriously inspired, though. Every once in a while I need a new cuisine to give a shot at cooking. And our boxes of kitchen stuff arrived, so I can have a fully-equipped kitchen!

Where's that *drool* smiley again? :D


I really need to learn to make those...I've seen my mom making them and they don't look THAT hard