Dairy Free Corn Fritters

These dairy free corn fritters are a great way to repurpose leftover corn on the cob or just have as a quick snack using canned or frozen corn kernels.  Don’t forget to top with powdered sugar, maple syrup, or honey.

American Indians had been using ground corn as food long before European explorers arrived in the New World. 

However, American Indians did not deep-fry their food because it required plenty of cooking oil as well as equipment suitable for it. 

However, American Indians shared their knowledge of corn and recipes with European settlers. 

It was long before the European settlers used this information to create their own cornmeal-based variations of European breads like cornbread.

This eventually lead to the creation of the corn fritter. 

Corn fritters probably originated in the South where deep-fried food is a large part of culinary traditions. 

However, it spread across the rest of the United States becoming a national favorite.

Today there seems to be a lot of debate about what a corn fitter is. 

There are nice puffy deep-fried ones like apple fritters and there flat shallow fried pan fried corn fritters that are reminiscent of Johnnycakes.

It seems to me that the puffy ones here are actually southern style corn fritters since every big Southern food magazine and blog shares recipes for this type of corn fritter. 

On the other hand, I’ve also seen Northern food blogs and magazines claiming these as their own and the pan-fried ones as Southern.

Then somewhere else I read that this style is typical of the Pennsylvania Dutch.

After sifting through all the conflicting information I’ve decided that both styles are popular everywhere. 

If I had to choose though, I’d say all evidence points to these being Southern style corn fritters.

If you like these dairy free corn fitters, you may also like my dairy free apple fritters.

What type of corn to use?

You can use canned corn or corn kernels cut away from leftover corn on the cob. Either one is fine.