22/10/2026
Corn Dogs with Home-made Tomato sauce and Carrot salad
Hands on time: 1 hrs
Cooking time: 1 hrs 10min
Serves: 6
Ingredients list:
For Tomato sauce:
2 Garlic cloves, minced
750ml Baby tomatoes
60ml Vegetable stock
50g Sachet Tomato paste
30ml Chopped basil
For the carrot salad:
12 Baby Carrots, halved lenghtways
15ml Olive oil
5ml Cumin
4 Handfuls mixed salad leaves
Handful mint
Handful basil
80ml Salad dressing, optional
For the corn dogs:
310ml Mealie meal
2.5ml Salt
180ml Hot water
10ml Lemon juice
5ml Olive oil
125ml + 30ml Nutty wheat flour
3 Eggs, beaten
7.5ml Mustard
6 Chicken sausages
15ml Sesame seeds
Method:
For the tomato sauce:
1. Fry the garlic until just golden. Add the tomatoes, stock and tomato paste. Simmer, covered, for 15min.
2. Mash the tomatoes and simmer, uncovered, for 10min.
3. Remove from the heat and stir through the basil. Season.
For the carrot salad:
4. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
5. Tos the carrots, olive oil and cumin together. Arrange on a baking tray and roast for about 20-25min until tender.
6. Assemble the salad with the remaining ingredients.
For the corn dogs:
7. Mix the mealie meal and salt. Add the water, lemon juice and olive oil. Mix until combined, then let it rest for 30min.
8. Turn the oven up to 200°C.
9. Add the flour and 2 of the eggs to the meanie meal mixture. Knead for 2-3min until pliable.
10. Dust a sheet of wax paper with extra mealie meal and roll out.
11. Spread a thin layer of mustard on each sausage.
12. Cut the mealie meal into thick strips and fold around the sausages until closed.
13. Arrange the corn dogs on a lined baking tray and insert a skewer into each one. Brush them with the remaining egg and sprinkle the sesame seeds on top.
14. Bake in oven until cooked through.