Pumpkin apple sausage Jamaican fritters

Original Post: http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2016/10/pumpkin-apple-sausage-fritters.html

Ingredients

1 ¼ cup Pumpkin

½ cup Onion

¼ cup Sweet pepper

3 Apple sausage links chopped

½ cup Tomato

2 Garlic shredded

½ teaspoon Scotch bonnet minced

3 tablespoon coconut oil

2 cups flour

1 ½ teaspoon Salt

1 tablespoon Onion powder

½ teaspoon Black pepper

2 teaspoon Allspice ground

2 teaspoon Smoked paprika

1 ¼ teaspoon baking powder

1 ½ to 2 cup water

Oil for frying

Simply Pineapple Chutney

3 slices fresh pineapple finely chopped

3 tablespoon sugar

½ cup water

2 pinches of salt

Instructions

For fritters

• Sauté together the pumpkin onion and sweet pepper in the coconut oil
• Once the pumpkins are almost cooked add the sausage and allow it to cook
• Remove from the heat and let it cool
• In a bowl combine flour, salt, onion powder, black pepper, allspice, paprika, and baking powder
• Mix until incorporated
• To the flour mixture add, tomato, garlic, scotch bonnet pepper and the cooled pumpkin sausage mixture
• Stir until the flour has coated everything and add water starting with 1 cup then adding ½ cup increments if necessary
• It should form a lumpy but smooth batter just slightly thicker than pancake batter
• Heat oil to very hot in a pan, spoon the fritters into the oil and fry until golden brown and crispy on both sides
• Drain on paper towels and cool on a cooling rack
• Serve with pineapple chutney

For chutney

• In a small saucepan combine all the ingredients
• Allow the mixture to cook and reduce until the sauce is thick and pineapples are tender
• Remove from heat and blend slightly to make it a bit smoother
• serve