Christie’s Corn Cakes with Avocado Salsa & Bacon

Corn Cakes with Avocado Salsa and Bacon

Ricotta adds a lightness to these corn cakes as they can often be dense and stodgy. This is a great recipe to have up your sleeve because it can be welcomed at breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Serves: 4

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Corn Cakes with Avocado Salsa and Bacon

By: Christie Connelly

This is a great recipe to have up your sleeve because it can be welcomed at breakfast, lunch or dinner.


Servings

Prep time

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Recipe


Ingredients

  • 1 cup spelt flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbsp ricotta cheese
  • ¾ cup milk
  • 2 cobs fresh corn, kernels sliced off with sharp knife
  • Butter or oil, for pan frying
  • 8 rashers bacon

  • Herby avocado salsa
  • 2 avocados, diced
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh dill
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh basil
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 spring onion, sliced
  • 1 tbsp red-wine vinegar
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • Salt & pepper, to season

Method


  • Place flour and baking powder in large bowl and stir to combine.
  • Crack eggs into jug, add ricotta and milk, then whisk to thoroughly combine.
  • Add egg mixture to flour along with corn kernels. Season with salt and pepper and mix gently to form thick batter.
  • Heat frying pan over medium heat and add a little butter or oil to coat. Dollop four separate tbsp of mixture to form four pikelet-sized corncakes and allow to cook for 2–3 mins until golden underside and stable enough to flip.
  • Flip and cook for 1–2 mins more until cooked through. Keep warm in low oven while you make the rest, 12 in total.
  • Cook bacon until crispy, drain and set aside.
  • Meanwhile, make salsa. Place avocado in medium bowl, add all other ingredients, season with salt and pepper and mix gently.
  • To serve, layer three elements on serving plates, starting with corncake, then bacon, then salsa. Repeat until everything is used up.
  • Enjoy immediately.

  

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Christie Connelly

Christie Connelly

Christie publishes the popular Australian food blog Fig & Cherry featuring healthy, family-friendly meals and sweet treats with mouth-watering photography to match. Christie draws recipe inspiration from her Hungarian and Lebanese heritages, her travel adventures and, of course, the amazing fertile soil of the Northern Rivers with its abundance of local organic fruits, vegetables, delicious native produce and healthy free-range-reared animals. Her passion is educating parents, grandparents and carers how to shop for, prepare and cook healthy, nutritious food and to encourage children to enjoy it as well.

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