How To Make Homemade Hush Puppies

Hush puppies are made up of corn meal batter that has garlic powder onion powder and a hint of paprika for some added spice.

How to make homemade hush puppies. These were even better than the long lost recipe ones. Mass market cornmeal can give the fritters an unappealingly gritty texture. Perfect for dropping into a heated skillet filled. Mixed these all together and your batter is thick rich and creamy.

Cook 8 or 10 at a time until golden brown. How to make hush puppies. For softer hush puppies use 1 3 4 cups of self rising cornmeal mix and 1 2 cup of self rising flour. The key to keeping hush puppies together is making sure the oil is heated to the correct temperature.

Add buttermilk onion egg and chives and stir until just combined. The exact amount may vary depending on. Periodically check the temperature while frying to make sure it remains between 350 and 375. I made it print editor s note.

Be sure to follow our other. The consistency was very nice light and flaky on the inside. In a large bowl whisk together flour cornmeal sugar baking powder salt and cayenne. This a was a simple and tasty recipe for hush puppies.

Next stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and heat 2 cups of oil in a large pot over medium high heat. Here s how to make this easy hush puppy recipe. Everything else was. I would like them to have more spice and when i make them again i will add more seasoning to kick up the flavor a little.

Add 3 4 inches of oil to your skillet or dutch oven and using a thermometer heat the oil to 365 375. The cornmeal batter has flour cornmeal a little sugar and buttermilk as a sweetener and aiding in smoothing the batter. Heat up your deep fryer. Remove from the oil with a slotted spoon and roll on paper towels to briefly drain.

We have determined the nutritional value of oil for frying based on a retention value of 10 after cooking. The best hush puppies recipe. This is one time when you ll want to get out your deep fryer. I lost a recipe i once used and have tried to make hush puppies a number of times using a variety of recipes.

These hush puppies are the best. Finally drop small scoops of the batter into the hot oil and fry them. True hush puppies are golden crisp on the outside and light and fluffy on the inside. If using a pan on the stovetop you ll need several inches of oil so the hush puppies will float as they fry mix your ingredients and drop.

The hush puppies were never quite right. Then in a separate bowl combine melted butter egg water and buttermilk. To make hush puppies start by mixing flour cornmeal salt sugar baking soda baking powder and diced onion in a large bowl. I didn t have green or purple onions so i used 3 4 c finely chopped yellow onions.

Place a rack over a baking sheet put the fried and drained hush puppies on the rack and place them in the preheated oven to keep warm while making more batches. They were a big hit with my 7 year old. As for color anything goes both white and yellow are great.