Golden hushpuppies, fresh from the fryer
Southern food in the United States features many types of bread, such as cornbread, flaky biscuits and hushpuppies. Hushpuppies typically are paired with chowder, frogmore stew, gumbo or fried fish. Here are two recipes (basic and spicy) so you can make your own delicious homemade hushpuppies.
Basic Hushpuppies
Stir together 1 ½ cups of white cornmeal, ¼ cup flour, one tablespoon baking powder and ¾ teaspoon salt. Chop ¼ cup onion into fine minced pieces. Add ¾ cup buttermilk and two eggs to the onion. Stir well until the eggs are well beaten. Now stir the dry and liquid ingredients together.
Cooking
Heat oil in a deep-fat fryer to 375 degrees. One by one, drop rounded teaspoons full of the hushpuppy batter into the hot oil. Cook for three minutes or until golden brown, turning the hushpuppies over halfway through cooking. Cover a large plate with paper towels or a brown paper bag, and drain the cooked hushpuppies on this. Place the plate in a warm oven while you fry the rest of the batter. This recipe makes 24 hushpuppies.
Spicy Hushpuppies
Here's another recipe for hushpuppies, but with a spicy twist. Mix ½ cup yellow cornmeal, ½ cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder, ¼ teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon sugar, ¼ teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon chili powder. Drain ½ cup whole-kernel corn. Finely chop ¼ medium red . Add the corn and bell pepper to your dry ingredients. Beat together 1/3 cup milk, one egg and one tablespoon oil. Now mix the wet and dry ingredients together. Do not overmix, or the hushpuppies will be tough. Fry the hushpuppies and drain as above.
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