Homemade Hush Puppy Recipes

I love hush puppies. I'm not crazy about the frozen ones in the grocery store. I love when a restaurant makes their own, though that doesn't necessarily mean they're always good. I haven't been that successful myself in finding a recipe I really like, but I've just found one that I find very good and a little different.

This method is from Brenda Gandt who some of you may have seen on Facebook. She cooks mostly country family food and she's not real good on measuring because she makes things over and over again and just "knows" what the texture should be.

Here's a video on YouTube where she fries chicken thighs and makes hush puppies. The hush puppies start about about the 8:30 mark.

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Basically, she slices an onion in thin half moons. She tosses that in salt and pepper and 3 to 1 self rising cornmeal and flour (all purpose or self rising). She tosses that in some buttermilk, but not a lot. It's a prett thick mixture. The onions sort of stick out of the hush puppy like spider legs that are crispy. I've made them a few times and made them again last night. Still trying to get the best texture, but they were very good.

She fries her eggplant and green tomatoes and other vegetables similarly. She puts just enough buttermilk on "chunks" of the vegetable to get them wet. Then she puts mostly cornmeal with a little flour until the vegetables are all covered and pretty dry and then deep fries them. I fried some eggplant last week using that method and it was very good. I've always fried eggplant and green tomatoes sliced, but I like this way better. She claims they are less greasy and I agree. They are very crispy and you can fry more at one time.

Any of you have a favorite hush puppy recipe?