The recipe is not as easy as putting it unhusked in the microwave oven, but it is one of my favorites. The shrimp is a luxury that my mother used to add, not included in the 'regular' Indonesian corn fritters.

Corn fritters

1 fresh ear of corn
2 heaping tablespoons of all purpose flour
1 egg

to your taste: minced shallots, minced garlic, green onions (cut into thin rounds), black or white ground pepper

Slice the kernels thinly from the cob, then slice them the second time closer to the cob, and then scrape the juicy remnants of the kernels from the cob. I slice them directly into a plastic bowl. Chop the shallot/s and garlic clove/s finely. You can also use a small onion instead of shallot/s. Add to the bowl, also add the sliced green onions, both the white and green parts. Add salt and pepper and the egg. You can add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Then mix everything. Fry tablespoons fulls in hot oil. I used a little over medium heat. Do not put too many at once. Wait until they float, then turn them around, so they are evenly golden. Drain on paper towels. You can fry one first and taste it and adjust the batter to your taste. Best eaten while hot, but they can be also eaten at room temperature.

This is the recipe that I used for 2 ears of corn.

2 ears of corn.
3 heaping tablespoons of flour
2 extra large eggs
1 teaspoon salt )
1 teaspoon pepper ) can be adjusted to your taste
2 tablespoons chopped shallot )
2 tablespoons chopped garlic )
3 stalks green onions, both white and green parts, thinly sliced into rounds )
6 large raw shelled shrimp, rinced and dried with paper towels, then cut into about 1 cm or 1/2 inches.--optional

Instruction--the same.

I microwave 2 ears of corn for @ 8-10 minutes, depending on taste. I like mine a teeny bit crunchy (less microwave time) but my husband likes his softer so his usually gets nuked a little more.

tantefrancine: to ATP and Thank you so much for the recipe ... I love Corn Fritters and will definitely try your recipe!

plantladylin said:I microwave 2 ears of corn for @ 8-10 minutes, depending on taste. I like mine a teeny bit crunchy (less microwave time) but my husband likes his softer so his usually gets nuked a little more.

tantefrancine: to ATP and Thank you so much for the recipe ... I love Corn Fritters and will definitely try your recipe!

tantefrancine and thanks so much for the recipe. I'm with you, Lin. I love corn fritters, too. In fact, I love corn in any form! Hopefully, we will never have to experience the summer of 2004. My brother passed away in the fall of 2003, and I am so grateful that he didn't have to endure that. He had just built his home in 1996 and would not have left it, although he had diabetes and COPD, and was on oxygen. The word stubborn comes to mind. During Charlie, a large pine tree split and the tip of it brushed against the guest room window and during Jeanne, a large limb broke off at the top of an oak tree beside our garage, and we barely got it tied off late on the evening before the storm it. The tree guy said his bucket didn't reach high enough to get up there and cut it but he could tie it off, and that worked. The next day during the storm I could see it swinging in the wind and finally it came down, barely missing the garage. Thank goodness, the tree guy knew his business!

I have been using the microwave for it all summer much easier ...
Tantefrancine the corn Fritter recipe sounds interesting also will have to try that also.