Tomatoes are a staple and sure sign of summer in Amish gardens. The ruby-red orbs make their way into juices, salsas, pestos, breads, soups, stews, onto sandwiches, and into lunch boxes.
By this time during the summer, most midwestern United States Amish communities have ample supply of tomatoes. The excess tomatoes get sold off in makeshift roadside stands, at farmers markets, and get used in all sorts of innovative ways.
Tomatoes are easy to grow, for the most part, and they are just so many different ways you can use them. Oh yeah, homemade catsup. Lots of catsup And homemade salsa too.
One of the simplest ways, however, to make use of excess tomatoes is this recipe for Summer Tomato and Corn Fritters. this recipe comes to us from a Mennonite community Man, these are good. They have a nice taste of basil, which you can get from your garden to use in this recipe. Rachel and I had these for supper last night. If you have a lot of tomatoes, you can diced them up and use a lot of them. If you live in an area where tomatoes aren't in season or you just don't have any ripe tomatoes you can use canned diced tomatoes and they will taste fine. I think these fritters are super with some summer corn added in for a 50/50 ratio of corn to tomatoes, but if you want to just make them tomato-basil fritters, that is fine too!
You can use fresh basil from your garden or you can use this basil paste that you can find in supermarkets. I really like this, the basil flavor really permeates the whole fritter.
The batter is a nice mix of flour, sugar, Worchestershire sauce, one egg, and, of course, your summer veggies, tomatoes and corn.
I filled the skillet up a ¼" with oil, using a blend of vegetable oil and olive oil....just expensive to use all olive oil. But either or a blend will work fine. I put the heat at medium and ended up frying each side for probably about 2 - 3 minutes each side.
And these are how the fritters turned out. Taste very good dipped in ranch or blue cheese. My wife didn't dip them in anything and enjoyed.
You can see, though, that you get this beautiful blend of basil, summer corn, and tomatoes all in a fritter!
🍅 Summer Tomato And Corn Fritters
- 1 c. all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. sugar
- 2 tbsp. fresh basil, minced
- 1 tbsp. parsley, minced
- 1 egg
- Vegetable oil for frying
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- ¾ tsp. salt
- 1 (28 oz.) can tomatoes, drained or 2 cups of fresh, diced tomatoes
- 2 cups of fresh corn or equivalent drained canned or frozen corn.
- 1 tbsp. onions, minced
- ½ tsp. Worcestershire sauce
📋 Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar, basil and salt.
- Cut tomatoes into ½ inch pieces and drain further on a paper towel.
- Add them to the flour mixture along with corn, onion, parsley and Worcestershire sauce, but do not mix in. In small bowl, beat egg and add it to the flour-tomato mixture.
- Blend lightly with a fork. Heat oil (about ¼ inch) in fry pan.
- Drop the batter by tablespoons into hot oil.
- Fry until golden brown on both sides.
- Keep fritters warm in oven until serving. Serves 4 - 6.
🍅 More Amish Tomato Recipes
Summer Tomato Pie - So good!
Tomato Bread - like a good pizza bread!
South Texas Rice - delicious!
Green Tomato Pie - tasty!
🖨️ Full Recipe
Summer Tomato And Corn Fritters
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. sugar
- 2 tbsp fresh basil, minced
- 1 tbsp. parsley, minced
- 1 egg
- Vegetable oil for frying
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¾ tsp salt
- 1 (28 oz.) can tomatoes, drained or 2 cups of fresh, diced tomatoes
- 2 cups of fresh corn or equivalent drained canned or frozen corn
- 1 tbsp. onions, minced
- ½ tsp. Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar, basil and salt
- Cut tomatoes into ½ inch pieces and drain further on a paper towel.
- Add them to the flour mixture along with corn, onion, parsley and Worcestershire sauce, but do not mix in.
- In small bowl, beat egg and add it to the flour-tomato mixture.
- Blend lightly with a fork.
- Heat oil (about ¼ inch) in fry pan.
- Drop the batter by tablespoons into hot oil
- .Fry until golden brown on both sides.
- Keep fritters warm in oven until serving.
Connie Trump
Hi Kevin,
I made these without the sugar and they are delicious! It was an easy, quick and wonderful way to enjoy the flavors of fresh corn, ripe tomatoes and fresh basil!
Thanks for posting.
Connie
Kevin Williams
Glad you enjoyed them, Connie, I love them too and will make them again!