How to make dagwood dogs at home: Mum shares her simple recipe for making the popular carnival snack for her kids – and it’s a huge hit
- An Australian home cook has shared her simple recipe to create dagwood dogs
- The home chef used nine basic ingredients to whip up carnival-inspired snack
- You’ll need frankfurts, polenta, plain flour, baking powder,egg and buttermilk
- The snack is also known as corn dogs or Pluto pups, is battered sausage on stick
An Australian mother has shared her very simple recipe to make dagwood dogs at home.
The home chef used nine basic ingredients to whip up the carnival-inspired snack, which are also known as corn dogs or Pluto pups, for her kids aged four and eight.
To make the battered sausage on a stick, you’ll need cocktail frankfurts, polenta, plain flour, baking powder, sugar, egg, buttermilk, salt and oil.
‘Kids are in heaven with this treat,’ she said in a Facebook group.
An Australian mother has shared her very simple recipe to make dagwood dogs at home, leaving foodies obsessing over her creation
In a mixing bowl, she added one cup of polenta, one cup of plain flour, four teaspoons of baking powder, a quarter cup of sugar, one egg, one cup of buttermilk and a pinch of salt.
Whisk all the ingredients until smooth. Thread each sausage onto a wooden skewer.
Next, heat oil in a deep saucepan. When the oil is ready, dip the frankfurt into the batter and deep fry for two to three minutes or until golden.
She served the dagwood dogs with a side of tomato sauce.
The mother also noted the snack was just a rare ‘treat’ and ‘not the kind of lunch’ her children ‘would eat daily’.
Her post was met with positive feedback, with many parents saying they were impressed with her easy to follow recipe, while others said they created a similar version for their children.
‘They look better than the ones you buy from food vans,’ one woman said, and another added: ‘This looks so good. I’m nine months pregnant just got an instant craving.’
One woman said: ‘Lunches at my house are much worse than this homemade treat,’ while another mother added: ‘Yum this is such a great idea my kids would love it.’
Another parent asked: ‘Omg my kids love this… I have made them before but not with Polenta. Why the Polenta?’ to which the mother responded: ‘It’s more like a traditional corn dog and polenta is corn meal.’