To continue not using the oven, we do use the stove top on days in between too hot and okay to turn the oven on. Tonight, we made mini corn dogs. We have never made them before but I think they turned out great! The recipe calls for 12 hot dogs but our packages are only 8 so we had leftover batter. At first, we were just going to make "dumplings" but decided that we needed a vegetable so we threw in some broccoli. I don't think this could in any way be considered healthy but at least it was a vegetable, right?
Everything in the recipe can probably be found in your pantry, at least in ours. However, we never buy buttermilk because it always seems like such a waste. Instead, we make the simple substitution of using 1 cup milk with 1 tablespoon white vinegar. You mix and then wait 5-10 minutes before adding to your batter.
It does take a while to fry them all up but I think it's worth it. Also, if you have ever looked at how expensive corn dogs are at the fair or in the freezer section of your grocery store, you will realize that this is cheaper AND you get to know what's going into them.
The corn dogs were better than our deep fried broccoli. Maybe if we had a cheese dipping sauce? I'm not sure how to improve on the broccoli. It was good but I think it was because the batter was good. I wanted to do green beans because I really like those in restaurants but we (actually surprisingly) didn't have any.
We also found it easier to just use our hands to dip and use a tongs to take them out of the oil because the toothpicks just because tedious. We were actually going to make regular size corn dogs but realized we didn't have anything to use as sticks and the mini version is much more manageable.
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