Food on sticks – keeps hands clean, makes food fun! I’d like to dedicate this post to Catty who has left our shores this week for Australia and inspired me to make this recipe from her food on sticks post.
Forigve me, I’m trying to write this with the taste of soil in my mouth. I had a bit of a disaster with dinner. I picked some spring onions from the garden and boiled them with some chicken. Those spring onions tasted strongly of soil it seems and tainted my chicken with soil flavour. It was gross…so now I’m redirecting my mind to nicer foods. Deep fried food. Food on sticks.
I’ve become a bit obsessed with potato dogs…I used to get them from the village shop where my maternal grandmother lived. There was something quite pleasurable about removing the potato dog wrapped in a now-greasy paper bag from the microwave. I’ve looked on the internet, can’t find them anywhere, except one photo. I heard about these corn dogs from Family Guy and The Simpsons and looked them up. No, they weren’t the same thing. Corn dogs are coated in cornmeal batter. Potato dogs are coated in hash browns. Lovely oniony potatoey sausages. Did I mention they’re on sticks?
Can I make a recomendation? Maybe it’s because I’m totes lazy, but my food processor has a grater on it. Instead of risking boredom and taking my fingers off, I just put the potatoes and onions through the grater and it took a few seconds! I’m all about efficiency (read: lazy).
You really need to strain the grated potato and onion mixture well – or it ain’t gonna stick chicks! Strain, strain and strain some more. Then grab a small handful and see if it sticks together, if it does then you’re good to go. I added some parmigiano reggiano into the potato mix for a bit of extra flavour, y’know, just because. I also used frankfurters (wiener!) but you could use proper sausages, just cook them first!
{Makes 6}
35mins – Prep time: 20 mins – Cooking time: 15mins
Ingredients
- 6 large potatoes (I used maris piper, the starchier the better)
- 6 frankfurters
- 1 large onion
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 80g parmigiano reggiano
- 1½ tsp salt
- ¾ tsp pepper
- Kebab sticks
- Deep fat fryer
Instructions
- Peel the potatoes and onions, then grate them. Place the mixture in a clean tea towel and make into a bag, squeezing out as much excess moisture as you can. Then squeeze some more. Leave for a couple of minutes, then try squeezing again.
- Grate the parmigiano reggiano into the potato and onion mix, add the salt, pepper and beaten eggs. Mix well.
- Preheat your deep fat fryer to 170°C
- Slide your frankfurters onto the sticks. Take a handful of the mixture and gently squeeze it onto the frankfurters.Keep going until each one is covered evenly. If it doesn’t stick, you haven’t strained enough water out!
- Depending on how big your fryer is, put in two potato dogs at a time, cooking for around 5 minutes. They’re cooked when they’re golden brown.
- Place on a piece of kitchen roll to cool a little. Dip in a little ketchup and eat whilst still warm.
I have never heard of these before! We just have corndogs here. Also.. our hotdogs don’t come in jars 🙂 This sounds even yummier than a corn dog.
The hotdogs I eat don’t come in jars either! That’s just wrong…
There are no words for how much I want one of these right now. Deep fried shredded spuds on a stick with added sausage? I am in love…
Gorgeous!! So happy I inspired you, you’ve made my day! 🙂 Food on sticks is the way to go 🙂
Thanks for your recipe, I have only seen these on sale once, but they were delicious, I’ll have to try to make some
Fried food on a stick…what could be better??!!
OMG – I am so psyched to find this!!! We saw “Tater Dogs” in Vienna 3 years ago and havel talked about them since. I wanted to surprise my husband and try and make some up…and there you were! He’s gonna love you for this recipe! Thx & happy New Year!!
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Cooooooo….That’s where I always went wrong…(well the two times I tried..but then gave up)…Its the excess water…before they just fell apart in the fryer…Ive just tried again but really went for the trytosqueezeallthewateroutbeforeattemptingtofry technique…I’m really very impressed:-)…I think a slack handful of these are going to the pub with me next Sunday 🙂
Cheers
Geoff:-)
I remember these when I was very young and living in Oregon at the time. Mid 1960’s. I think we got these potatoe dogs at the A&W. I’ve never had them since, and no one has ever heard of them before. So this is great to find, and will try in making them soon. This is so grand to find the recipe. Someone remembers these. Yeah!
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These look so yummy. Now I want some, even tho it’s almost 4am. >.>;; (never heard of them before today, but just had to look them up after a BBC article. And yes, those horrid weenies in jars. I don’t like them personally, but my son loves them. *sighs* They’re actually more common here on the Continent than the ‘proper’ kind.)
Hi! Thanks for your comment. I’m curious to know what BBC article it was since I’ve been getting a lot of hits to this post recently!
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33943760
Here’s the link to the article I read. idk if there are any other ones floating around, but that’s the one I was reading (and boggling at – fried butter on a stick? WHY? Americans are weird…). I’m gonna see if my son will make these for me instead of the corn dogs he wants to make. 😀
Oh, I remember them well…..tater dogs from Bee’s Drive In (MI) in 60’s -70’s. Have been hooked on hot dogs since. The ones we had were made w/mashed potato pressed around dog (not real think) then deep fried. Found a couple of recipes. have not tried yet.
Man, I had them here in Louisiana, mid 60, i think. I can remember it now, pic for mosquito & potatoe dog for girlfriend (wife) & me at local drive-in theater, thanks, truly.
My granddaughter & I had potato-dogs somewhere in the UK, sometime a few years ago, but neither of us could remember where or when!! We thought what we had were “Corn-dogs”, but have tried corn-dogs since- Yuk!!
Then I came across your recipe, I tried it with good quality frankfurters, Maris Piper potatoes (always my favourites for baked & roast potatoes) and wow, even better than the bought ones. Now I am the most popular grandad with all my granddaughters friends!! And it’s all thanks to this recipe.
Many, many thanks.
This is such a unique take on hot dogs! I wish I had the money to open a stand during next year’s California State Fair, I just know these would be a hit with the crowds (they always want new food items on sticks). Very different than the U.S. corn dog which in my opinion aren’t that great, mainly because they insist on using cheap chicken franks rather than beef.
I’m wondering if I could be even lazy-er and use frozen hash browns rather than grating potatoes. I’m going to give it a whirl. Thank you for the great recipe and maybe I can one day visit the U.K. to try them there!