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Weekend Dish: Deep-fried PB&J

By Catherine Toth Fox • September 5, 2011 • Food, Weekend Dish

The other day I had the most amazing breakfast — made by the head chef at Rainbow Drive-In, no less.

And no, it didn’t involve two scoops of rice and mac salad.

He served us peanut butter and jelly sandwiches — on white bread, this is key — dunked in pancake batter, deep-fried, then doused in sugar.

Oh, I can’t tell you how good it was.

So my mom and I — with the help of my dad, who manned the sugar — tried to recreate this breakfast sensation. In the process, I think we improved on it, changing up the fillings and realizing there’s so much more we can do with this recipe.

Here’s what we did:

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You can make instant malassadas by dunking pieces of white bread into this batter and frying it. But we made sandwiches with the white bread — filled it with peanut butter and jelly, cream cheese and a lilikoi spread, even sausages — then battered and deep-fried it. We cut the sandwich bread into eighths, which helped.

Batter
Used to make instant malassadas

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups Bisquick
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 Tablespoon sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup milk

Directions:

Mix. Coat pieces of white bread — filled or not — with batter and place into deep fryer.

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15 Comments

  • Reply oldshoes September 5, 2011 at 4:39 pm

    ….and here i thought i invented that ,one post New Year’s Eve hangover when i dropped my p & j sandwich in the wife’s chicken fryer.

    • Reply Catherine Toth September 6, 2011 at 8:28 am

      LOL, that’s how most things get invented!

  • Reply David Jackson September 5, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    Wonder what that would taste like with honey in the middle instead of PB&J.

    • Reply Catherine Toth September 6, 2011 at 8:28 am

      Probably ridiculously good!

  • Reply Melissa808 September 5, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    You get plus points for no crust!

    • Reply Catherine Toth September 6, 2011 at 8:29 am

      Hey, I wanted it to TASTE GOOD 🙂

  • Reply M September 5, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    A new fuud truck fuud!

    • Reply Catherine Toth September 6, 2011 at 8:29 am

      Everything fried!

      Isn’t there a truck like that already……..?

  • Reply MaxMaxMax September 6, 2011 at 2:05 am

    I’m a pancake man myself… that sounds soooooooo ono!!!

    • Reply Catherine Toth September 6, 2011 at 8:30 am

      Pancake batter is a wonderful thing. Truly versatile. I’m a believer!

  • Reply J September 6, 2011 at 5:49 am

    Now I need breakfast…

    • Reply Catherine Toth September 6, 2011 at 8:30 am

      I’m hungry, too. I could use an acai bowl right now.

  • Reply hawaiiobsessed September 6, 2011 at 10:00 am

    wonder how to make that healthier. HA HA!

  • Reply hawaiiobsessed September 6, 2011 at 10:03 am

    Which ones were the best? They all sound so good. Especially the cream cheese and lilikoi spread. The sausage sounds good too tho,

    • Reply Catherine Toth September 6, 2011 at 2:28 pm

      I liked the PB&J, actually. That was my favorite. I bet Nutella would be good, too, but we didn’t have…

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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