(WSVN) - A deep-fried American favorite provides the perfect side dish to any seafood meal. That’s what’s cooking as we grab a Bite with Belkys.
The Chef: Tito Vargas
The Restaurant: Abiaka, Hollywood
The Dish: Hush Puppies
Ingredients:
3.75 oz. Hush Puppy Batter (recipe below)
2 oz. Honey Butter (recipe below)
1 tsp. Kosher Salt
1 qt. Vegetable Oil
Ingredients for Hush Puppy Batter:
Dry Mix: (mix ingredients)
7.5 oz. cornmeal, finely ground
2.5 oz. all-purpose flour
1.25 oz. maseca flour
1/2 oz. baking powder
1/4 oz. pimenton spice
1 tbsp. kosher salt
6 medium-size yellow squash, diced and cooked until soft
7 oz. spanish onion, grated
21 oz. large eggs
6 oz. whole milk
2 oz. buttermilk
2 oz. sugar
1/4 oz. jalapeno peppers, minced with seeds
10 oz. colossal lump crab meat
Ingredients for honey butter:
4 oz. Unsalted Butter
4 oz. Clover Honey
(Mix until throughly incorporated)
Method of Preparation for batter:
- Grate the onion on the small hole side of a grating box.
- Mince the jalapenos with seeds.
- Warm the whole milk and buttermilk in a sauce pan (do not boil).
- Add the sugar and the onion until the sugar is dissolved.
- Pour warm liquid into dry mix, eggs and jalapenos and stir to combine.
- Fold in diced squash and crab meat.
- Allow mix to sit in fridge for 3 hours prior to use.
Method of Preparation for cooking hush puppies:
- In a 2 qt sauce pan, pre heat the oil to 330F.
- Use a candy thermometer to monitor the temperature.
- Using a small ice cream scoop, scoop 5 hush puppies (.75 oz ea) and fry until golden brown and cooked through (about 5-7 minutes).
To Plate:
- Remove the hush puppies from the oil into a paper towel lined plate to drain.
- Season with kosher salt.
- Place the hush puppies in a plate and pour the honey butter in a ramekin.
Abiaka
(located in Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino – Hollywood)
1 Seminole Way
Davie, FL 33314
www.seminolehardrockhollywood.com
*Currently, Abiaka is closed due to the COVID-19 crisis. Like so many other restaurants featured in Bite with Belkys over the years, Abiaka will need your support once they reopen.
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