Hot sauce is often used to add extra flavor to a number of deep-fried dishes, but it is the basis for this deep-fried food dish from this year's LA County Fair.
The creation from Chicken Charlie's is made from a combination of Frank's RedHot Sauce and batter, which gives the mixture enough substance to be formed into balls and dropped into the deep fryer. Once formed, the Deep-Fried Hot Sauce balls are served with a side of spicy ranch and a piquant jalapeño pepper.
While deep-fried foods often make consumers think of a coating that surrounds a solid food item, in recent years, there have been a number of deep-fried treats made with liquid substances, including Kool-Aid, Pepsi, sweet tea and coffee as a base.
What's Driving This Trend
- Deep-fried Liquid Treats
- Expanding deep-fried treats to include liquid substances presents an opportunity for innovation in the food industry.
- Innovative Use of Hot Sauce
- Finding new ways to use hot sauce, like Deep-Fried Hot Sauce balls, can create disruptive opportunities in the condiment industry.
- Novelty Food Items
- Continuing to create unique food items like Deep-Fried Hot Sauce balls can offer disruptive opportunities in the novelty food industry.
Who This Affects Most
- Food
- Expanding deep-fried treats to include liquid substances and finding new ways to use hot sauce presents disruptive opportunities in the food industry.
- Condiments
- Innovative use of hot sauce presents disruptive opportunities in the condiment industry.
- Novelty Food
- Continuing to create unique food items like Deep-Fried Hot Sauce balls can offer disruptive opportunities in the novelty food industry.
