Ever tried crispy Buffalo fried celery sticks? In this easy appetizer recipe, we're turning ordinary celery into golden, crunchy fried sticks coated with delicious Buffalo sauce!
If you enjoy fried pickles, crispy appetizers, or Buffalo-flavored snacks, this is something different to try. We're using a seasoned batter, panko breadcrumbs, and a homemade Buffalo sauce to give these celery sticks a crispy coating and bold flavor.
### Ingredients - 3 large celery stalks - 1 cup all-purpose flour (divided) - ½ cup cornstarch - 1 large egg - ¾ cup buttermilk - 1 tsp hot sauce - 1 tsp salt - 1 tsp onion powder - 1 tsp garlic powder - 1 tsp black pepper - 1 tsp BeSureTo Seasoning Blend - Panko breadcrumbs, as needed - Vegetable oil for frying
**Buffalo Sauce** - ½ cup hot sauce - 3 tbsp butter - ¼ tsp BeSureTo Seasoning Blend
### Instructions 1. Wash and cut celery into evenly sized sticks. 2. Mix ½ cup flour and cornstarch in one bowl. 3. In another bowl, combine egg, buttermilk, hot sauce, seasonings, and remaining ½ cup flour. 4. Dip celery into dry mixture, then wet batter, and coat with panko breadcrumbs. 5. Fry in hot oil at approximately 350°F until golden and crispy. 6. Heat butter, hot sauce, and BeSureTo Seasoning Blend until bubbly. 7. Gently toss fried celery in Buffalo sauce and serve with your favorite dip.
### ⏱️ Video Timestamps 00:00 – Introduction 00:15 – Cutting the Celery 00:34 – Preparing Dry Ingredients 01:02 – Making the Wet Batter 02:14 – Adding Flour to Batter 02:40 – Coating the Celery 03:40 – Adding Breadcrumbs 04:10 – Heating the Oil 04:49 – Frying the Celery 05:39 – Making Buffalo Sauce 06:30 – Coating with Buffalo Sauce 07:01 – Plating 07:16 – Taste Test 07:48 – Serving Suggestions 08:30 – Final Thoughts🍽️ Find more easy recipes at https://besuretocook.com
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This video provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to make Buffalo Celery Sticks, a vegetarian alternative to chicken wings. The process involves breading fresh celery sticks in a seasoned batter, deep-frying them until crunchy, and tossing them in a homemade buffalo sauce for a savory, spicy snack.
The star of this dish is celery sticks!
I have three large celery sticks.
So I want to cut these in a really pretty big size bite size.
So I'm going to cut one
and I'm going to use this for a guard
for all them to be the same length.
We're getting ready to go over all
of our ingredients for our buffalo celery sticks.
For our dry ingredients we have a half a cup of all-purpose flour
and a half a cup of cornstarch.
this is for the dry ingredients okay
for our dry ingredients here we go we got another large bowl
we're going to be adding the flour with just
a half cup like i told you and a half a cup of the
cornstarch okay we're going to sit this dry ingredients
and then we're going to work on the
wet in another bowl separate bowl we're going
to add one large egg to your mixture okay i got three
fourth cups of buttermilk
and you know how i am i don't like leaving residue or anything behind i
I like to get it all as much as I can
because that's part of your ingredients most people don't
do that but I do one teaspoon of hot sauce
of your choice that's going in there okay I know
it's gonna have buffalo sauce that I'm gonna
be making this is just regular hot sauce one
teaspoon of salt you can use any salt you want kosher salt
or whatever you can use whatever you
want I'm going to just kind of mix this up a little bit.
One teaspoon of onion powder.
Put that all the way around it.
One teaspoon of garlic powder.
That also goes in.
One teaspoon of paprika.
And if you have smoke, you can use that too.
If you have plain, you can use that.
And then don't forget my Be Sure to Season seasoning blend.
One teaspoon of that.
Let's mix all this up.
Okay, after I get through mixing my seasons up very, very well,
because you make sure you want to get
those seasons mixed up really good my last step
is one half cup of all-purpose flour is going
to go right into this bowl make sure you get all of
it you know i'm a big fan of that i'm going
to take all these little crafty little things here
that i have my little bowls
and i'm just going to slightly mix this in and this is what it should
look like and this is what our celery sticks
are going to go into okay got on some gloves i don't
want to get it all over my hands oh I don't I love cooking
but sometimes you just don't feel
like doing all that you know rinsing
your hands digging all in there yeah so this time I've got
gloves because I just didn't feel like going through
the mess I've got my cornstarch and my
flour mixed up I'm taking my couple of celery sticks
and I'm going to toss them around
in this flour and cornstarch okay there
and I'm going to stick it in here and I'm like pressing
down and i'm shaking off the excess
of the flour okay i'm poking these all down yeah all right
they're covering up good nice and good got one
down let's get that other one out of here good
i'm gonna take my breadcrumbs
and i'm gonna start swapping them
all over into the breadcrumbs
making them stick yeah okay
breadcrumbs here that coating all
right we're gonna go ahead and
compact these down and make sure they nice and good
and fresh and they look delicious and once
we do that we're going to be back we're going
to throw them in the fryer okay i've got about a
a cup of vegetable oil any oil
and those little bits you see down there is me testing the oil
so i take my little breadcrumbs just a pinch
and i'm going to do it again so you can see it
and i put it on top and see if it cooks
because i don't want my celery sticks to sit in grease
and it goes down to the bottom
and they're just browning that's what it is so it's nothing i
didn't give no old oil or nothing i've just been testing it
and it's not quite there yet you see
i did it that time i'm doing it again
and i'm not getting the bubble that i need so we're just going
to wait till it heats up a little bit more it'll probably cook
those and you'll see even more but
that's okay hey that's what
that's just straining is all about
straight dropping some in don't want
to crowd them because i want them to cook evenly
and i want them really not to be touching each
other. I want them to cook and have a lot of room to fry in.
So I'm going to do about three. All
right, we're going to lift these up.
Yeah, because you still want them nice and crunchy. Oh, look at
those. Now we get ready to make
the buffalo sauce. We're going
to need three tablespoons of butter,
a half a cup of your favorite hot sauce, one-fourth
teaspoon of Be Sure to Season seasoning blend.
So I know my fourth. That's my fourth teaspoon
of Be Sure to Season seasoning blend. Then you're
mix this up very, very well.
Bring this to a complete bubbly boil.
Get it real nice and hot.
Take it off the stove.
Okay, I got four of them in here.
Now I'm going to take
my hot sauce that
we've made, our buffalo sauce,
and I'm going to just not going to drench them. Just apparently
just shake them around in there. It's not enough.
Just add a little bit more like they do the wings,
like they do the wings just like they do there we go look at that nice
and coated these are my
celery buffalo sticks and i'm getting a tone with a cover on it
so it won't you know because if you
do all metal it'll take off the coating
and since it's kind of wet i don't want to take off the
coating and there you go my celery buffalo sticks delicious guys okay
when they're not hot we're
We're just going to dip it in here.
Mmm.
You hear that crunch?
Oh, my God.
That is so good.
Hey, it tastes like, you know what I mean?
Buffalo chicken, but it's buffalo celery sticks.
That is good.
It's still got the crunch.
It's got your breading like you're biting
into a chicken wing or something.
Oh, my God.
That's different.
Hey, guys.
If you don't want meat and you just want a vegetable
because you're having a feel for vegetables or you're a vegetarian,
hey you can still have your buffalo celery sticks
without eating meat this is also a side dish for
you know buffalo wings and fried celery sticks
or you could just have just regular old fried
celery sticks with your ranch
or your or your blue cheese whatever dipping you like this is still
good oh my god they're
so crunchy oh it's delicious this is all that something different
something delicious something exciting hey i hope you like this dish
because i do i want to get off
here because i really do want to eat
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so you can make these delicious buffalo celery
sticks hey i hope you enjoyed this dish because
i did because guess what i didn't make this alone you
and me we made these fried buffalo
celery sticks together, and we can make plenty more.
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so we can make plenty more of these delicious buffalo sticks
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