![]() Seasonings: The batter is flavored with garlic powder, salt, ground cumin, black pepper cayenne pepper.Sugar: Adds a slight sweetness to the batter.Baking powder: Baking powder creates extra crispy batter as it reacts with the oil and produces tiny air bubbles which causes the breading to rise and create a lighter and airier batter AKA crunchier hush puppies! DON’T use baking soda!.Flour: I use all-purpose flour but I’m sure gluten free flour, almond flour, etc. ![]() Also, cornmeal expires and because extremely bitter, so make sure it’s fresh! Make sure to use finely ground cornmeal and not coarse ground for the best texture. Cornmeal: This creates the base of the batter.Oil: Use a high smoking oil with a neutral flavor such as vegetable oil for frying.These are best served with tartar sauce or even ranch dressing. The inside will maintain a light and flakey dough. See how quick and easy it is to make, then add golf ball sized round balls to the oil, spinning the ball around until the outside becomes a golden brown. ![]() Mix together the ingredients until it is smooth and creamy. And if you need one more reason: everyone gathered around your television in their matching football jerseys will love you for it! Hush Puppies Ingredients: I have used Pepper Jack in my last three recipes (hush puppies, Southwest Pepper Jack Salad Bacon Ranch Pepper Jack Pull Apart Bread), so I guess you now have three wonderfully delicious reasons to buy pepper Jack, starting with these incredibly easy, tasty hush puppies. I, of course, add a punch of flavor with the addition of bacon and Pepper Jack cheese. While there are some small variations (like onion powder instead of onion shavings, garlic powder, or even no onion at all), most people use cornmeal, wheat flour, baking powder, salt and milk or buttermilk as well as eggs. WHAT ARE HUSH PUPPIES MADE OF?Ībout a half dozen ingredients are in a hush puppies recipe. Whether you subscribe to the tales of Indians in Southern America, Civil War soldiers, southerners cooking at fish fry festivals, or cowboys out on the plains, the ingredients and how to cook this easy appetizer treat are pretty much the same in the end. When their hunting dogs got hungry at night, the hunters would cook a basic cornmeal mixture on the grease of the fire and feed it to the dogs to “hush the puppies.” Maybe that’s also where the term “lucky dogs” comes from. My favorite version of the tales is the one attributed to hunters and trappers who would be on the trail for months at a time. There are many different tales about how or when hush puppies came to be. As if cornbread wasn’t delicious enough?! HOW DID HUSH PUPPIES GET THEIR NAME? Hush puppies are little balls of deep-fried cornmeal, about the same size as a meatball or a scoop of raw cookie dough AKA deep fried cornbread balls with seasonings. ![]() Good thing, because you will probably inhale them in less than 10 minutes and need a second batch. This hush puppies recipe is so easy to make and take less than 30 minutes start to finish (most of that time is just babysitting them as they fry). If you have never devoured hush puppies before, please end your deprivation right now starting with these Bacon Pepper Jack Hush puppies recipe! And paradise just got even more paradisiacal. I remember the very first time my teeth sunk into deep fried hush puppies.
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