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Ricotta Cheese Fritters

Remember the two angels from this post? Every time they come to my place, something special always seem to happen and this time was no exception. It was rainy, day was gloomy and the kids got hungry. They asked me to make some thing with cheese – “I luv jeeze – lotta jeez” said the little one. Her mother informed me that although she has just started making sentences, she can ask for cheese (jeez, i.e) very well and that’s the first thing she ever said!:) Adorable! I had some Ricotta cheese waiting to be used, a little slab of Parmesan and was wondering what I could make for them when it happened!!!

Last time they had visited us, there was a bird’s nest right outside our house, on the porch light where we could see all the eggs. It was right where we could sit in our living room and check them out. It had 4 eggs, brown and cute. The kids spent hours last time (I had to lift them every 5 minutes to let them check if they have hatched or not! My hands were paining like crazy at the end of the day! Oh well that’s a topic for another day!) The eggs dint hatch that day although they did 2 days later and I went on to see little ones being hatched, open their sweet beaks to get food from mama bird, take their first flight and then leave the nest for ever! Capturing them in photo was really hard given that they were so close. The smart mama bird seemed to have tought them well..the minute the little ones see us watching, they will lie down subdued but the minute we hide or go away from their line of sight they will start chirping like crazy :) It was funny indeed!

Ricotta Cheese Fritters

So when the little ones came this time and found the nest empty with only Bird droppings inside, the little one started crying. She wanted to see the eggs. I was amazed how she remembered this after all this while. That’s when I told them that we would make our own eggs and put them in our own nest – clean one and not filled with droppings.

Ricotta Cheese Fritters I also told them, these will be delicious looking ones and which they can eat too :) :) So here are my eggs and nests

    Ingredients

  • Approx 2 cups of Part skim ricotta cheese
  • About 4 whole grain stale bread slices
  • 1/2 cup Panko bread crumbs (optional. You can use the whole grain bread crumbs instead)
  • 1/2 cup Parmesan grated
  • few sprigs of cilantro/parsley
  • salt to taste
  • few tbsp of Italian seasoned Bread crumbs for coating

Method

Grind the bread slices to make fresh bread crumbs. This should make approximately 2 cups.

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Add all the ingredients together.

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It will come together into one dough

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Make small balls out of it and then coat it with bread crumbs

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Drop them in a hot oil

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and fry them until golden brown

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Serve warm, as they are or with ketchup.

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I used cilantro leaves to make the nest and placed these goodies in the middle.

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Which of these final photos should I send to Click ? One of the two in the top of this page or one of the two at the bottom? Can you help me decide?

Update: Thanks Guyz. I have decided to send the second last snap for the event.

Sending these over to Trupti’s MBP : Kids event. This recipe has been inspired by Amy Savoury Ricotta Fritters post

Sending the snap to Jugalbandi’s Click : Tofu/Cheese Event

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29 Responses to “Ricotta Cheese Fritters”
  1. Gayatri

    Wow! This is an awesome thought and inspiration…am gonna try it out for my 2 yr old…thanks for sharing it and hats off to ur creativity :)

    Thanks Gayatri :) Am sure your family will love it :)

  2. Rajee

    Great picture and how delicious to be.

  3. Kevin

    Those look great! Perfectly golden brown!

  4. Lisa

    You’ve out done yourself with this recipe. I’ll be trying these for sure!

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  6. KALVA

    love the second one from the bottom… lovely pics

  7. Madhuram

    Lucky children! They got to taste these yummy looking cheese eggs.

  8. Maya

    Wooooow, is all I can say..

  9. bee

    looks utterly delicious. and i love those birdies.

  10. Soma

    Awwww that's one cute pictures of the baby bird. We had disaster twice with the bird nests in our porch.. they fell off, little eggs & all in the tornado like winds 2 yrs in a row. it was heartbreaking to see the parents hovering over the empty place:-(

    Love the fritters! reminds me of frying the Malai Kofta balls!

  11. Madhumathi

    Great idea..They look irresistable..

  12. bhagyashri

    Wow! Thats a lot of cheese, but they look crispy & delicious.
    I like the second last pic…

  13. Akal's Saappadu

    i love all of them, but prefer the ones at the top of the page! got so much patience (bird photos) not very easy indeed, but got a wonderful picture of them! lovely presentation!

  14. Akal's Saappadu

    i love all of them, but prefer the ones at the top of the page! got so much patience (bird photos) not very easy indeed, but got a wonderful picture of them! lovely presentation!

  15. Priya

    Just drooling over the crispy ricotta fritters, yummy..really tempting me..

  16. MeetaK

    oh these look wonderfully crispy! lovely idea!

  17. Neha

    They look so crispy, must have taste delicious too. I liked the last but one photo the most..

  18. Uma

    I love jeeze too! Can I have some of those yummy eggs? Gosh, these are tempting me dhivya! I like the very last picture in the post (1st one from the bottom).

  19. Cham

    Ha ha there is no way of dieting in food blog I guess. They re killer! I like the 1 rst from the bottom!

  20. Arundathi

    looks delicious!! :-) would’ve loved to see one photo with a shot of the inside!

  21. karuna

    they look perfectly round, crispy and I am sure yummy. ricotta and parmesean wowowowoow!!!!!

  22. Indrani

    all the pics are equally good, but I liked the 1st one from the bottom of ur page….delicious recipe, DK

  23. rekhas kitchen

    ooohhh what to say simply superb thats it.yeh lovely story and delicious recipe

  24. Pavani

    all pics look great, but I liked the last but one the most.

  25. Cynthia

    OMG! I can just imagine how delicious these must be.

  26. Priya

    I like the second to last photo. And these fritters look soo tempting Dhivya, I really wish I could grab one out of the photo :) My mom makes a dish called birds nest too, its like a bonda with a moist slice of bread as the outer cover, and then deep fried

  27. veggie belly

    Watching the new born birds must have been quite a sight! Its wonderful that you drew inspiration to make something from that scene.

  28. Divya Vikram

    They look sinfully delicious Dhiv!

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