Dips & Appetizers

Easy Hush Puppies

A tried-and-true family favorite from Becky's own recipe collection. Here's everything you need to make Easy Hush Puppies at home.

Easy Hush Puppies

Easy Hush Puppies

Makes 24 hush puppies · ~30 calories per serving (estimated)

Ingredients

  • 1 jalapeño pepper & 2 tsp pickled jalapeño juice
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup minced onion
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk (or 1/4 cup beer + 1/4 cup milk)

Instructions

  1. Mix all ingredients well.
  2. Shallow fry in 2 cups of oil, or deep fry.
  3. Makes 2 dozen.

From Becky’s handwritten notebook

Every recipe on this site started the same way — written by hand in Becky’s spiral kitchen notebook, usually with a dinner bubbling on the stove nearby. Here’s the original page this recipe was typed up from, smudges and all:

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Becky's handwritten Easy Hush Puppies recipe — notebook page 1

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