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A fritter is a fried food. The food is a portion of batter or breading. It is filled with either meat, seafood, vegetables or fruit.

In the United Kingdom, fritters can be with fish and chips. There is also a food item, like an apple ring or a slice of potato.

In the United States, fritters are small cakes made with a primary ingredient; it is then mixed with an egg and milk batter. The fritters are pan-fried or deep-fried. Corn fritters are made with corn and are generally deep fried. Apple fritters are well known in America; the contemporary apple fritter in America is not like the British one.

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  • Chilli Bites (Bhaji)

    Chilli pakoras

  • Onion Fritters Peyaji

    Onion fritters (peyaji) is a Bengali dish made with onions

  • The Bajji maker

    A woman making bajjis in Mylapore

  • Uggani bajji

    Uggani bajji, rice and fritters, a typical breakfast in Rayalaseema

  • Penjual Gorengan

    Gorengan, Indonesian street vendor of assorted fritters

  • Tempe and tahu goreng

    Indonesian tempeh and tofu fritters

  • Pisang goreng in a basket

    Fritter peddler offering pisang goreng, Indonesian banana fritter

  • Malaysian roadside fritters

    Malaysian roadside yam and sweet potato fritters

  • Myanmar Fried Snack

    Fried snacks of Myanmar

  • Kumbo

    Maruya or kumbo, banana fritters

  • Ukoy (shrimp fritters) from Vigan, Philippines

    Okoy, shrimp and glutinous rice flour fritters

  • Kwek kwek cropped

    Kwek-kwek, duck egg fritters

  • Cagayan Pampanguena - Pinakufu

    Pinakufu, glutinous rice flour fritters coated in sugar and coconut

  • Nam phrik kapi 02

    Nam phrik kapi served with vegetable fritters; a common dish in Thai cuisine

  • Ojingeo-twigim and gochu-twigim

    Korean Ojingeo-twigim (squid fritters) and gochu-twigim (chilli fritters)

  • Dasima-bugak

    Dasima-bugak (coated kelp fries)

  • Miyeok-twigak

    Miyeok-twigak (seaweed fries)

  • Kookoo-sabzi-3

    Kuku-sabzi

  • Maple Syrup Drenched Apple Fritters (13656611574)

    Canadian maple-glazed apple fritters

  • Whitebait Fritter

    New Zealand whitebait fritters

  • PhotoBananaFritter

    Banana fritters

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