Homemade Fried Mozzarella Sticks and Homemade Ranch Dip Recipe (video)
Some classic pub food for St. Patrick's Day! The mozzarella sticks aren't really the main event in this recipe, they're dead simple. Breading and frying single-serving mozza snacking cheese until they're melty is the easy part. The homemade ranch dip is really the star of the show, here. I was honestly pretty amazed at this recipe. It was like regular ranch, but everything was turned up to 11. Really bright flavours, and extremely versatile. We obviously used it with the mozza sticks, but it also went really well on fried chicken the next day, and would make an excellent pizza dipping sauce, too.
The recipes we adapted this from used sour cream along with the mayonnaise, but we went ahead and used our own homemade creme fraiche, which was delicious. Sour cream will work just fine if you don't want to go through the process of making your own creme fraiche, though.