Remember the Christmas ham we roasted about a week ago? Yeah, the 5kg one which was expected to feed the masses... uhm, I mean, two mouths.
Well to keep from food-boredom (a foodie never lives on the one dish alone), I wanted to create a little variation on the menu with the leftover ham in the days after Christmas, instead of just chomping on cold ham (which my husband does anyway to snack on). The obvious one I've already made was a quick dinner mini pizza with ham and mozzarella - also particularly to utilise one of our Christmas presents from MIL - a pizza stone! I thought up some other ideas like ham sushi, curry ham, ham shish kebab, ham satay, ham in fried rice...
Crazy ham ideas aside, here's just one of the few recipes I've actually made in the last few days... (I'll update with the others to follow-up).
Ham and corn fritters
Apparently a Christmas leftover staple, I think this was an easy-peasy one.
Ingredients
2 thick slices of ham, sliced further then cut into small chunky cubes
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/2 red/Spanish onion, chopped
1 cup frozen corn kernels
- Slice from the edges of the Christmas ham, then cut strips of the ham removing the fat and rind in the process. Cut the strips into small chunky cubes about the size of a corn kernel or bigger - depending on how much ham you want to taste in the fritter.
- Sift the flour with the baking powder, and salt. Add the egg, milk, onions and corn kernels. Mix well.
- Heat a frying pan with about a tablespoon of oil.
- Drop in spoonfuls of the mix into the hot pan.
- Fry on either side until crisp and golden brown. (You may want to add a bit more oil into the pan after a couple of fritters, otherwise you might burn the fritters on the dry pan.) Drain on paper towel and keep hot.
- Arrange the ham fritters on a plates and serve with a dollop of sour cream.
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