Hot Dog on Stick

I found this recipe very long time ago, can't remember where, and didn't have a chance to try it out (main reason is I don like frying food in my kitchen, causing so much trouble to clean up) til today, as we are planning to go S'pore 2moro morning, prepare this as a snack during the car journey.

Hot Dog on Stick

1 cup flour

1/2 cup cornmeal / polenta

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 cup milk

1 egg yolk

15 cocktail chicken sausages

15 picks / sticks

Direction:

1. Preheat oil in a deep pan or fryer to 375F / 190C
   
2. Combine the flour, cornmeal, sugar, salt and baking powder in a large bowl
   
3. Add the milk and egg yolk to the dry ingredients and mix with an electric mixer on high speed until batter is smooth
   
4. Dry off the hot dogs with a paper towel
5. Jab the pick about halfway into the end of each hot dog
6. When the oil is hot, tip the bowl of batter so that u can completely coat each hot dog.  Roll the hot dog in the batter until it is entirely covered
7. Hold the hot dog up by the stick and let some of the batter drip off.  Quickly submerge the hot dog in the oil and spin it slowly so that the coating cooks evenly.  After about 20 second u can use a lid to the deep fryer or pan to put weight on the sticks, keeping the hot dog fully immersed in the oil.  You can cook a couple dogs at a time this way
8. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes or until coating is dark brown.  Turn them once or twice as they cook
9. Drain on paper towels while cooling, and repeat with remaining hot dogs

After frying all the mini hot dogs, I still have plenty of batter left, checked out fridge and pantry for food which is good for frying, managed to dig out a sweet potato, what the heck, skinned and sliced it, threw into batter and got it fried.

After finishing the sweet potato, aiyah, still have bit of batter, took out the seaweed, dipped a few into batter then into frying pan.

Left - fried seaweed, right - fried sweet potato

Verdict:  yummy to eat when they were hot, the coating turned soggy when it was cold, but still nice to eat for the hot dog version.