Apple Cream Cheese Fritters with Rice Flour
The mixture of rice flour and egg whites in the batter creates pleasantly light texture. Filled with apples and cream cheese, this is a pleasant snack or dessert. Serve with a smooth custard sauce made with rice flour.
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Rice flour works well in a batter or in sweet or savory sauces as a thickening agent because it does not form lumps.
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Take time to deep fry the fritters at a low temperature.
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All rice flour is naturally gluten-free. Make this dish completely gluten-free by using gluten-free substitutes for other ingredients as needed.
4 servings
Ingredients
| 2 (400g) | apples |
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For the filling
| ½ cup (120g) | cream cheese, softened at room temperature |
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| 1½ tablespoons (16g) | sugar |
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| Rice flour for dusting | |
For the batter
| ¾ cup (140g) | rice flour |
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| ⅔ teaspoon (3g) | baking powder |
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| 6 cups (1,400ml) | water |
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| 1 tablespoon (18ml) | vegetable oil |
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| 3 (140g) | egg whites |
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| Pinch of salt | |
| Additional vegetable oil for deep frying | |
For the custard sauce
| 3 (60g) | egg yolks |
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| 1 cup (160g) | sugar |
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| 3 tablespoons (30g) | rice flour |
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| 1⅔ cups (400ml) | milk |
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| 1 teaspoon (4ml) | vanilla extract |
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| Fruit sauce for garnish | |
Directions
Peel and cut the apples into 1/8 inch (5mm) thick slices.
Stir the cream cheese and sugar until soft. Spoon in the cream cheese in between apple slices. Dust with rice flour.
In a bowl, combine rice flour, baking powder and water. Add vegetable oil and mix well. In another bowl, beat egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form. Fold into the batter in 3 portions.
Coat the apple sandwiches with the batter and deep fry in 320°F (160°C) oil. Set aside.
For the custard sauce
In a bowl, combine egg yolks, sugar, and rice flour. Mix until well combined.
In a saucepan, heat the milk almost to the point of boiling. Remove from the heat. Slowly whisk the milk into the custard sauce. Add vanilla extract. Return to the saucepan over low heat and simmer until creamy.
Pour the custard sauce onto a plate. Place apple fritters and decorate with fruit sauce. Serve.
- This recipe uses US customary units. Measurement equivalents include: 1 teaspoon = 5ml, 1 tablespoon = 15ml, and 1 US cup = 237ml or 8fl oz. (1 metric cup = 250ml or 8.5fl oz.)
- The cooking time using microwave oven in this recipe is based on 1,000W in the US.
- The temperature and baking time may be different depending on the oven used. Please adjust accordingly.
- All rice flour is naturally gluten-free. Make this dish completely gluten-free by using gluten-free substitutes for other ingredients as needed.