Recipe: Park Avenue BBQ and Grill's Sweet Corn Fritters
By John Linn in Clean Plate Charlie Eats South Florida, Homebrew
Thu., Nov. 5 2009 @ 12:19PM
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They're served with three condiments to play with; mixing and matching each different one can lead to dramatic results. Adding honey from a squeeze bottle recalls both carnival food and something vaguely Asian. The combo of powdered sugar and maple syrup suggests French toast. Cut the maple syrup from that equation and you get something shockingly close to a beignet - the dough warm and light; the sugar turning sticky as it clings to the pastry's greasy exterior. At $3.49 for an order of six, Park Avenue's corn fritters are one of the tastiest confections around, dollar for dollar.
Owner and founder of the chain of smokehouses, Dean Lavallee, created the recipe himself in 1988. He had purchased a failed barbecue joint in Lake Park, Florida, and decided to rework their recipe for corn fritters himself.
"I just tinkered with it," says Lavallee. "I grew up in the south and hush puppies and corn fritters are part of the culture here. But most of them are corn meal oriented, and I didn't feel that fit the barbecue so well." Lavalle's change was to remove the corn meal and go with an all flour base instead. His other secret ingredient? Cream corn. "I think that really smoothed things out."
Lavallee shared the recipe for Park Avenue's excellent corn fritters with New Times. Find it after the jump.
Recipe adapted for the home kitchen and not tested.
4 eggs
32 oz. whole milk
1/2 cup of sugar
1/4 can creamed corn
1/4 TB vegetable oil
1/4 cup baking powder
1/4 can whole kernel corn
Mix ingredients together. Add enough self-rising flour until consistency is thick and firm and refrigerate. Using 1.5 oz scooper, drop into hot oil fryer at 350 degrees for approximately 7-8 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve warm with powdered sugar, maple syrup, and honey.
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