Hush Puppies

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup gluten free flour blend

  I use Bob's Red Mill 1 to 1 Baking Flour
• ¾ cup regular cornmeal

  also called medium ground cornmeal
• ½ cup corn flour or finely ground cornmeal

  Not cornstarch
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
• 1 cup buttermilk
• ¼ cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• canola oil for frying

Instructions

• 1 Place a candy thermometer in a saucepan or deep fryer with at least 2 inches of
  vegetable oil and heat to 360 degrees.  Adjust the heat while cooking to keep
  the oil temp between 350-360 degrees.  Expect that the temp will fluctuate as
  you place & remove hush puppies from the oil.
• 2 Combine the dry ingredients in a medium mixing bowl and the wet ingredients in a
  large bowl.  Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir well to combine. 
• 3 Working in batches, use a mechanical cookie or ice cream scoop (that holds a
  heaping tablespoon of dough) to carefully drop dough into the hot oil.  Allow to
  fry for 2-3 minutes, until they are well-browned and cooked through. 
• 4 I recommend frying a one or two hush puppies at first to check the temp & timing
  before frying a whole batch.  If the exterior is well-browned but the interior
  isn’t cooked through, then lower the temp about 5-10 degrees and try again. If
  they soak up a lot of oil and take more than 3 minutes to become well browned,
  the temp is too low.

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