Fried Cheese Curds
These homemade fried cheese curds are delicious. Ooey, gooey little pockets of fried cheese - what's not to love?
Ingredients
- 1 pound Cheese Curds
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 2 Eggs beaten
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 quart Vegetable Oil To fry the cheese curds in
- 1/2 cup Raspberry Jam or your favorite Dipping Sauce optional, for dipping
Instructions
- About 30 minutes before you start to make these, place the cheese curds in the freezer. This will help the cheese curds to set and not melt when frying.
- Heat the oil: I used a Fry Daddy for this, but you can also heat the oil on medium heat in a large cast iron skillet on the stove.
- In a bowl, stir your wet ingredients together - the eggs and milk together.
- In a separate bowl, stir together salt, baking powder, and flour. Next, add your wet ingredients to the bowl and stir together. The batter should be thin.
- Coat the cheese curds into the batter.
- Then fry the cheese curds in batches until golden brown. This will take about 30 seconds to one minute, depending on your oil.TIP: I found that the cheese curds kind of clumped together when frying from the batter. So, if you want them to really look like cheese curds, I would recommend to separate them with your hands or a slotted spoon, let the excess batter drip off and place each cheese curd individually into the oil to fry.
- Drain the cheese curds on a paper towel. Place them into the oven at 250 degrees (or your oven's lowest setting) to keep warm while frying the rest of the batch of cheese curds.
- Dip in raspberry jam or your favorite dipping sauce! The raspberry jam adds a sweet element to the salty fried cheese.