Diver Scallop Hush Puppies With Chowchow Tartar Sauce

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"If you’re a seafood edifice successful the South, you’re obligated to person a bully hush puppy,” says cook Mike Lata of the Ordinary. His deep-fried snack relies connected section Geechie grits (we're utilizing cornmeal successful this recipe) and immoderate seafood (scallops, shrimp) is available.

Freshly made batter delivers the champion crackle. You’ll request an instant-read thermometer for monitoring the oil.

We recovered Duke’s mayonnaise astatine Harris Teeter stores.

Vegetables for the chowchow request to beryllium salted overnight. The tartar condiment tin beryllium made 2 days successful advance. The hush puppy batter needs to remainder for 30 minutes.

Adapted from Mike Lata, chef-owner of the Ordinary successful Charleston, S.C.

Ingredients

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Servings: 7-8 (makes 35 to 40 pieces)

For the chowchow tartar sauce

  • 1 1/2 pounds ripe caller tomatoes, chopped into chunks
  • 1 mean onion, diced
  • 1 rib celery, diced
  • 1 tiny greenish doorbell pepper, stemmed, seeded and chopped into tiny dice
  • 2 tablespoons kosher salt, positive much arsenic needed
  • 1/2 cupful sugar
  • 1/3 cupful pome cider vinegar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons powdered mustard
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons yellowish mustard seed
  • 1 spoon celery seed
  • 1 spoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes
  • 1 spoon crushed coriander
  • 1 cupful Duke’s regular oregon low-fat mayonnaise (see headnote)
  • Fresh citrus juice

For the hush puppies

  • 2 1/2 cups cornmeal
  • 1/2 cupful flour
  • 1 spoon baking powder
  • 3/4 spoon baking soda
  • 1 tablespoonful Old Bay Seasoning
  • 3 ample eggs, beaten
  • 1 1/2 cups regular oregon low-fat buttermilk
  • 1 cupful chopped scallions (white and greenish parts)
  • 1 lb diver (sea) scallops, chopped into 1/2-inch pieces
  • Canola oil, for frying

Adapted from Mike Lata, chef-owner of the Ordinary successful Charleston, S.C.

Tested by Nilar Andrea Chit Tun.

Published April 7, 2015

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Updated March 15, 2026

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