I’m going to sound like I’m just making excuses, but we rarely fry food. (It’s true!) I can’t stand the way it makes my house smell, not to mention sometimes you just feel terrible afterwards. I was willing to look past both of those things to make these yummy cheese sticks. Sure, I wouldn’t make them very often because lets face it people, they are still deep-fried cheese but heck for the occasional splurge they were pretty stinking delicious!
I did change the method slightly for the breading of the cheese sticks after reading several reviews of the recipe. I served them with some of my homemade spicy marinara sauce but any good jarred marinara will work just as well.
Sorry if the picture isn’t great-it is hard to focus on pictures when you keeping smelling fried cheese. I was weak! ha!

Prep time: 5-10 minutes
Cook time: 30 seconds (no really)

Fried Mozzarella Cheese Sticks

2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup water
1 1/2 cups Italian seasoned bread crumbs
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup cornstarch
4 cups oil for deep-frying (I used canola, vegetable or peanut oil would work here as well)
1 (16 ounce) package mozzarella cheese sticks

Directions
1. In a small bowl, mix the eggs and water.
2. Pour the breadcrumbs into one medium bowl. In another medium bowl, blend the flour and cornstarch.
3. In a large heavy saucepan, heat the oil to 365 degrees F (185 degrees C).
4. One at a time, coat each mozzarella stick in the flour mixture, then the egg mixture, then in the bread crumbs. Once coated, dip back into egg mixture and then back into the breadcrumbs. Make sure the breading has covered the entire cheese stick. This will help keep the cheese from leaking out. Before frying the entire batch, do a test piece. Fry one cheese stick until golden brown (about 30 seconds) and remove from pan. You should be able to gently turn it and remove it from the pan with a set of tongs.
Next, add your remaining breaded cheese sticks into the oil. You may need to do this in batches of 4 or so. Fry until golden brown, about 30 seconds. Remove from heat and drain on paper towels. Serve with marinara (or ranch dressing if you like).