Fried Pickles

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• vegetables or canola oil
• 20 ounces kosher dill pickles (burger sliced pickles)
• 3/4 cup pickle juice
• 1/2 cup ranch dressing
• 1/2 teaspoon tabasco sauce
• 1 egg
• 1 cup flour
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 2 cups breadcrumbs
• 1 (1 ounce) packet ranch dressing mix
• ranch dip, for dipping

Recipe

• 1 open the jar of pickles and reserve 3/4 cup juice. set aside.
• 2 drain any remaining juice and arrange the pickles in a single layer on a cookie sheet to dry.
• 3 in a large bowl, whisk together pickle juice, ranch dressing, tabasco sauce, egg, flour, and cornstarch. whisk until well combined.
• 4 in a shallow dish (i used a cake pan), combine bread crumbs and ranch seasoning packet.
• 5 dip each dried pickle into batter, allowing the excess batter to fall, then dip each pickle into the mixture and set aside. continue dipping and coating each pickle.
• 6 heat 1-1.5 inches of oil in a large skillet. when the oil has reached about 360 degrees, carefully place a few pickles in the skillet at a time and cook for about 3 minutes, or until both sides are crispy and brown.
• 7 remove the cooked pickles from the oil, and place on paper towels to drain.
• 8 serve pickles immediately with homemade ranch dip.