Recipe: Perfect Ricotta and orange fritters with honey

Ricotta and orange fritters with honey. Pile the fritters onto individual plates and drizzle over the warmed honey. Top with a dollop of ricotta and dust with icing sugar. To finish, spoon orange strips and some of the syrup on top of the ricotta and serve at once.

In a large bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, lemon zest and salt. In another bowl, whisk eggs, cheese, sugar and extract. Add to dry ingredients, stirring just until moistened. You can have Ricotta and orange fritters with honey using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ricotta and orange fritters with honey

1. Prepare 250 grams of ricotta.
2. It's 1 of orange - zest.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of caster sugar.
4. It's 1 of egg.
5. It's 1 cup of flour (if you use plain you need to add 1tsp baking powder).
6. Prepare 1 of orange juice (to make batter the right consistency).
7. Prepare 1 of oil to deep fry - I ONLY use Rice Bran Oil.

Mix ricotta, sugar, flour, egg, zest and juice of the Orange together in a bowl The mix will be fairly dry so add orange juice until the mixture resembles a thick batter Heat your oil and drop teaspoon full amounts of the mix into the hot oil. Sweet ricotta fritters with orange-honey syrup recipe by Katy Holder - First, make the orange-honey syrup, if desired. Remove the pan from the heat and leave to cool. To make the orange syrup, place sugar, water and juice in a small saucepan over a medium heat and bring slowly to the boil to dissolve sugar.

Ricotta and orange fritters with honey instructions

1. Grate the zest of one orange and squeeze the juice.
2. Mix ricotta, sugar, flour, egg, zest and juice of the Orange together in a bowl.
3. The mix will be fairly dry so add orange juice until the mixture resembles a thick batter.
4. Heat your oil and drop teaspoon full amounts of the mix into the hot oil....I use a deep fryer for mine and set the temp at 170°C so that the insides cook through. I only use RICE BRAN OIL when I am cooking as it has a high smoke point, which means it does not burn (unlike olive oil and other oils) and is NOT carcinogenic at high temps.
5. When the balls are golden brown/blonde brown remove them from the oil.
6. Drizzle honey over a pile of fritters and you can sprinkle icing sugar over the top....if you have some extra ricotta you can dollop some onto the fritters AND you can also serve with some candied orange zest (I didn't have any in my humble kitchen).

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