Air Fryer Hush Puppies
Air fryer hush puppies are a delicious appetizer or side, perfect with your favorite seafood. They use less oil than the deep fried version.
Ingredients
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon chili powder
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon honey or sugar
- 1 cup buttermilk half and half or heavy cream will work as replacements
- 1 tablespoon olive oil or melted butter
- ¼ cup green bell pepper chopped
- ¼ cup yellow onion chopped
- Olive oil cooking spray or cooking spray of choice
Instructions
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Mix the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, salt, garlic powder, onion powder and chili powder in a medium size mixing bowl.
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Mix up the wet ingredients. In a separate larger mixing bowl, combine the egg, honey and milk and olive oil or butter.
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Mix up the batter. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well to form a wet thick batter. Fold in the peppers and onions.
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Cook the hush puppies. Preheat the air fryer to 380 degrees F (this takes 5 minutes for my air fryer)
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Once the air fryer is ready, place a liner or piece of foil into the bottom of the air fryer basket and spray with cooking spray.
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Using a 2 tablespoon size ice cream scoop or large spoon, drop the biscuit dough into the air fryer basket, making sure to space each of the hush puppies about 2 inches apart. You will likely need to do this in batches.
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Close the basket and cook at 380 degrees F for 4minutes, then flip each one over and cook for 4 more minutes on the other side.
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Once they are done, spray them with olive oil spray and sprinkle with sea salt. Continue until you have cooked all of the hush puppies. This recipe yields about 12-15 hush puppies.
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Serve. Enjoy these warm with your favorite dipping sauce.
Recipe Notes
Nutritional information is approximate and was calculated using a recipe nutrition label generator.
Some air fryer models only cook in 25 degree increments. 375 degrees F should work just fine.👌🏻