How To Make Gluten Free Vegan Tomatokeftedes – Greek Recipe.
Hello there! This week I am sharing my How To Make Gluten Free Vegan Tomatokeftedes – Greek Recipe.
Tomatokeftedes, translating roughly into tomato fritters in English, are popular Greek snack from the Cyclades. Most authentically, they are made with Santorini tomatoes – though as I am based in the UK and not Greece, I just used tomatoes from my local supermarket in my recipe!
Made with tomatoes and onion (at least in my recipe), I like to tell myself that tomatokeftedes contain two of the 5 a day. It is common to add herbs and sometimes spices to these tomato fritters, and my recipe is not exception!
My version is gluten free, vegan and delicious! If you follow my recipe, you will end up with 10 tomatokeftedes. Whilst you can eat them as a snack, they can also make for a tasty lunch. (This recipe would make 10 snack servings and 2 breakfast/lunch servings.)
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Recipe Sheet
How To Make Gluten Free Vegan Tomatokeftedes – Greek Recipe
Equipment
- 1 chopping board
- 1 Mixing Bowl
- 1 Tablespoon
- 1 Teaspoon
- 1 frying pan
- 1 spatula
Ingredients
- 125 g of gluten free all-purpose flour
- ½ red onion
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 1 teaspoon of cumin
- 1 teaspoon of paprika
- 2 teaspoons of grounded parsley
- 1 teaspoon of salt
Instructions
- Wash and then dry your half an onion and tomatoes.
- Chop your onion into small, thin slices. After you have removed the pulp of each tomato, chop your tomatoes into small, thin slices as well.
- Add the tomatoes and onion slices to a mixing bowl.
- Next add the cumin, flour, paprika, parsley and salt (optional) to the mixing bowl. Mix thoroughly.
- Place the oil in the frying pan, which should be set on a high heat.
- Once the oil is starting to bubble, scoop out about 3 tablespoons worth of the mixture onto the pan flattening it with your spatula to make one fritter. Try to fry 3-4 fritters at one time.
- Fry the batch of tomatokeftedes for 3 minutes. Then flip them over and fry for 1 minute.
- Using the spatula, transfer the batch onto a plate.
- Repeat steps 5-8 until you have no more mixture left in the mixing bowl.
- Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 125g of gluten free all-purpose flour
- ½ a red onion
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 1 teaspoon of cumin
- 1 teaspoon of paprika
- 2 teaspoons of grounded parsley
- 1 teaspoon of salt (optional)
Instructions
- Wash and then dry your half an onion and tomatoes.
- Chop your onion into small, thin slices. After you have removed the pulp of each tomato, chop your tomatoes into small, thin slices as well.
- Add the tomatoes and onion slices to a mixing bowl.
- Next add the cumin, flour, paprika, parsley and salt (optional) to the mixing bowl. Mix thoroughly.
- Place the oil in the frying pan, which should be set on a high heat.
- Once the oil is starting to bubble, scoop out about 3 tablespoons worth of the mixture onto the pan flattening it with your spatula to make one fritter. Try to fry 3-4 fritters at one time.
- Fry the batch of tomatokeftedes for 3 minutes. Then flip them over and fry for 1 minute.
- Using the spatula, transfer the batch onto a plate.
- Repeat steps 5-8 until you have no more mixture left in the mixing bowl.
- Enjoy!
Tips and Tricks
- If you have a round cookie cutter, you may want to use it to shape the raw fritters. This will help to keep the fritters around the same size. Though if you don’t have one, then it is more than fine to try to flatten a large tablespoonful of the mixture to make a fritter using a spatula.
- I like to make my tomatokeftedes on the spicy side, hence why I like to add two teaspoons of cumin! However, if you don’t like spicy food, it is completely fine to not include the cumin in the mixture.
- If you don’t like a particular herb or spice in this recipe, feel free to substitute it for another herb or spice. Alternatively, you can avoid it and not make any substitution.
- If you don’t like onions, then don’t add the onion slices. You can always use bell pepper slices as a substitute or a similar vegetable. If you don’t replace the onion slices, you will make less tomatokeftedes.
- I use gluten free all-purpose flour for this recipe. If you have another type of gluten free flour that you love, by all means have a go at making tomatokeftedes using your favourite flour.
- My recipe is vegan, but it doesn’t have to be! If you are happy for the tomatokeftedes to be vegetarian, then you can 1 egg to the mixture to further bind all the ingredients together.
Can the Tomatokeftedes Be Air-Fried or Baked?
- This recipe can be made in an air fryer if this is more convenient to you. Depending on the size of the air fryer, the number of tomatokeftedes you can fry in a batch may change though. Bear in mind that the times needed to fry the tomatokeftedes may change according to the temperature of your air fryer.
- Again, you could potentially bake the tomatokeftedes if you would prefer. This would certainly make the tomatokeftedes healthier. Like when considering the logistics of air frying the tomatokeftedes, you will have to factor in the change in temperature among other things.
To Add Salt or Not to Add Salt to the Tomatokeftedes? That is the Question….
As I have indicated in the recipe, I like to add salt to my tomatokeftedes. I really think that salt really brings out the flavours of the tomato and onion slices because, after all, they are really the stars of the show. I also think that the salt works really well with the herbs and the spices, in particular the cumin. It goes without saying that you should only cook with ingredients that you like to use/ are available. So, therefore, if you don’t want to add salt then don’t. Obviously, no added salt is better for those of you on a low sodium diet. If you still want to add salt, you can also use less than a teaspoon if that suits you better. Add only half a teaspoon of salt, for example, if this is the case.
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