If you read my blog often, you obviously are a good person, with a spectacular sense of humor, AND you know my latest obsession…broccoli. And if you’ve been reading my recent posts, you know that I’ve been consuming stupid amounts of broccoli the last few weeks. My friend Tom said he could even smell it on me the other day. Healthy? Not really sure about that. Actually it is healthy. I’ve had to be sure to floss multiple times a day now because of the broccoli seeds stuck in my teeth…I’m sure my classes love seeing that when I coach. Cute. At least my dentist will love me. Anyways, it’s finally time to update you on the amount of broccoli I consumed over a one week period. Don’t get too excited. I consumed….23 heads of broccoli in 1 week. Yes, the broccoli heads were all different sizes, but I would say medium was the average size. I can’t seem to get enough of it. I have it at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Best carb around, hands down. I cook the broccoli in a pan with olive oil, put every sort of garlic seasoning on it, and pour a bit of water on it then cover to steam away. Genius. Easy, but genius.
Let’s just say my digestive tract is quite in order at this point. Eating that many vegetables is intense. Try it. I’ve never eaten so many in my life. Since I cut out fruit all last month, I wanted to be sure I was getting my carbs in with every meal. And since I’ve been going a little wild with the paleo chocolate cake lately, I need to offset it with vegetables. It doesn’t work like that, I know, but I can dream. I’ll have to update you later about not eating fruit. There will be embarrassing before and after pictures up soon. Awesome. I did have a crap ton of grapes last night though and was full so damn fast. Fruit is weird. I’d rather eat broccoli.
Well this entire post has been pointless. Sorry about that. It’s early. And my life is really lacking excitement. I’ll go streaking today so I have something fun to talk about…jail. But the whole point of this post is that I used all those extra broccoli stems for good use. I threw them into a shredder and frittered the crap out of them. Mmmmm fritters. Just sounds delicious. And it was. I ate all of them by myself. I’m such an only child.
Paleo Broccoli Fritters
Ingredients
- 6–7 broccoli stems, shredded (about 1.5–2 cups)
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 1 3/4 cup almond meal
- 1/2 sweet onion, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- lots of salt and pepper
Instructions
- Send your broccoli stems through a shredder. I used a food processor with the shredding attachment which made it go by super fast.
- Add your shredded broccoli to a large bowl along with all other ingredients and mix well.
- Heat up a large skillet over medium-high heat with a bit of fat in it. Use a large spoon and your hands to ball up a fritter and add to a skillet. It doesn’t need to be flat, you’ll flatten it out after you flip it.
- Cook the fritter for about 3-4 minutes, then use a spatula to flip, then flatten out with the spatula. Cook for another 4 minutes or so.
- Once the fritters are crisp on both sides, eat them. I topped mine with a grass fed beef burger. Genius.
How to make these a little sweeter when sweet onions not available? Tried an apple but made it too crumbly even after adding more high dollar almond flour because of apple adding more moisture.It tasted pretty good though!
I have to tell you after I tried this receipe my husband & I are ADDICTED! I’ve tried them with zucchini & even spinach-they are amazing with almost any veggie!! Thank you for your wonderful & delicious recipes, this is my go-to site for any Paleo recipe
I spotted this recipe a couple of weeks back and finally made it for brunch this past Sunday. YUMMMM! Even my ‘food critic’ husband loved them. He was talking about how great they were throughout brunch and said ‘you could have this for brunch, a snack, a side, and you could try them with other veggies too’. Like the previous poster, I do believe that we are quickly going to become broccoli fritter addicts!
I just found your site last night and am thrilled! I liked this recipe on FB today, and made a batch, including the grass fed burger! It was awesome! But I almost ate the whole batch! Saved only a scant amount to make for my son and husband. Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, so maybe they will be part of my breakfast! Thank you so much!
Can you use coconut flour in place of almond meal?
not really sure. haven’t tried
Oh my god, this is pure genius! I was wondering, can I prepare it without the almond meal? Is it essential?
kind of essential
I totally get how you feel about the Brocolli, I do that too with veggies. Last week I went through a Brussels sprouts kick, a few weeks before that it was spinach! I crave vegetables a lot like that. I never crave fruits, just the veggies, very strange. I would probably make a great vegetarian but the problem is I love meat too much!
I’m allergic to almonds, will coconut flour work for a substitute? Thank you 🙂
it might be an overpowering flavor, i haven’t tried that before
Made these last night and while they were very tasty, they turned out very almond floury. Do you mix in the almond flour with everything else or should it be just an almond flour coating on the outside? Have you tried both ways? I do love almond flour, but I try to limit my intake of nuts. Just wondering your thoughts! Thanks so much, Juli!
mix the almond flour in with everything else. it binds it better!
Hi Juli,
Is there a difference between almond flour and almond meal?
thanks!
these look awesome!
almond flour usually usually blanced almonds