If you’re gonna fry fish around here you MUST have hushpuppies. These are crisp on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside. This is a BASIC recipe and you can add anything you want to them. I personally love Mexican cornbread and adding jalapeños and cheese is wonderful. Adding fresh cut corn is really good too.

These cheese filled hushpuppies came about after my husband returned from a buisness trip to New Orleans and had hushpuppies stuffed with cheese. He loved the creamy cheese centers. These are simple to prepare but time consuming to fry. You can not crowd the pan or the cheese can leak out with the lowering of the oil. If cooked in very small batches they turn golden in minutes and can be set to drain on a wire rack over a foil lined baking oan. Then all fryed hushpuppies reheated just until hot for a crispy, slightly spicy crust with a melting creamy center!

If you need a side of bread to go with your meal... These southern Hush Puppies are simply delicious lite bites of cornmeal batter flavored with onion and dropped into hot oil until the outside is crispy and browned to perfection and the inside soft and fluffy.

I used onion powder instead of onions and added a little sugar. These make me miss home so much! My kids LOVE them too :)

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This makes a lot of hush puppies if using small scoops. May make as big or small as you like. I use a very small ice cream scoop. I think it is a tablespoon size scoop. It makes them bite size. But you can use soup or teaspoon to drop in oil as well.

Critic's Disclaimer: The title of this recipe is based on the opinion of a 6 yr old whose basis for comparison is the hush puppies from his favorite fish restaurant in our area. It's development was out of necessity when I was frying up catfish and realized I didn't have any cornmeal for making the hush puppies. Also, admittedly, I eye balled all my measurements as I normally do, but this is roughly what each measurement would be.

I love hush puppies anytime of the year, but Christmas time I add extra ingredients just to be festive. Great as an appetizer, snack or with chili, stews or soups.#12plates

Fantastic. Peppers added kick.