fritters

plural of fritter
as in cakes
a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried she loves eating corn fritters with maple syrup

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Recent Examples of fritters For Caribbean food, head to O’Niel Caribbean Kitchen, where treats like saltfish fritters or balchi fish balls are worth the inevitably long waits for a table. Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 20 Oct. 2025 The bakery also makes apple fritters, croissant doughnuts and wheat-free doughnuts and serves Equator coffee. Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025 These fritters are sweet, tart, and spiced, all at once. Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025 Enjoy the daily rotating lunch special (a nod to the original street food cart) of prawn fritters or duck salad with Vietnamese coffee tiramisu for dessert. Gizelle Lau, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 Canelés, financiers and, at least for a short while, peach fritters. Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025 On the food menu are Spanish classics like paella, croquetas fritters, and patatas bravas, or crispy potatoes, along with colorful summer salads and crowd-pleasers like burgers and sandwiches. Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025 Chickpea flour is the base for these crispy fritters that chef and author Romy Gill likes to pair with cool mint-cilantro chutney. Saveur Editors, Saveur, 4 Sep. 2025 Every bite of this dish, whether spooned from a steaming bowl or crisped into fritters, represents how food can carry the weight of memory, love, and history. Sami Tamimi august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fritters
Noun
  • Suet cakes are also very useful if the fall.
    Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Today, the downtown Corsicana shop produces around 20,000 cakes each day during its busy season, proving just how in demand that original recipe still is.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Hours later, after dodging cow patties the size of dinner plates and gaping holes leading to marmot burrows, the locations are chosen and the traps are set.
    Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Noting that the president was given a gold crown and beef patties with ketchup while in South Korea, Jost joked that the 79-year-old basically just had a Happy Meal with a toy.
    William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Diners can enjoy croquettes, escargot, croque monsieur, and more.
    Gabi De la Rosa, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Lamb shanks are braised in Malbec till they can be shredded and made into croquettes with provoleta cheese and a yogurt mint sauce.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

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