Fish batter recipe

[techead]

Need one ASAP

Picking up some Blue Nose on the way home!



Just have no idea what the fack to do with it!

 

[web]

Flour, (cold water or beer ) pinch of salt...

 

[techead]

omg cant be THAT simple

 

[web]

yip , add spices how you want, eg. chilli flakes or paprika or anything you fancy, lemon pepper is rather nice. Dont make the batter too runny.
Coat the fish in a little flour or egg yolk before dipping into batter, you can also add eggs to the batter mix.

 

[web]

Or look here there are lots of different batters http://www.fishex.com/recipes/batters/batters.html

 

[techead]

Or look here there are lots of different batters http://www.fishex.com/recipes/batters/batters.html

+ REP

damnit when is this forum gonna get that feature?

 

[DJ...]

The best batter I have ever tasted was (suprise surprise, I know) a Heston Blumenthal recipe. It's absolutely awesome. Here it is:

200g plain flour
200g rice flour
(or just use about 350g of ordinary flour instead of these two)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp honey
300ml vodka
300ml lager (Kronenbourg 1664 works well)
2-3 litres groundnut (peanut) oil
Table salt and freshly ground black pepper

You can use ordinary oil for this but try to get the oil hot without burning it.

Basically just mix all the wet ingredients together (apart from the beer) and the dry ingredients together. Then combine the two and refrigerate. Put this in the fridge for about a half an hour or until ready to cook your fish. When ready to cook, dust the fish fillets with flour, remove the batter from the fridge and open the beer and mix it into the batter, keeping the bubbles if you can. Coat the fish in the batter and fry until golden brown. Another Heston trick is to drizzle extra batter over the fish while it is cooking, to give it more crunch.

This recipe is pretty foolproof and is absolutely delicious...

 

[Sting]

500g fresh fish
1/2 cup self raising flour
1 teaspoon salt
about 2 cups ice cold water (beer or soda water will add to the flavor and crispness)

The process

Mix you batter by adding the self raising flour and salt to a bowl and then adding 3/4 of the water. Whisk until the batter is smooth. It should resemble pancake batter. Then add more water until you get the right consistency.

Heat a pot of oil to medium hot, (5 on a mximum 6 plate)

Drop fish gently into the oil and move them around a bit until golden and crisp.

With very cold batter the oil foams up instantly so be careful!

Drain the fish on paper or in a sieve, squeeze over a little lemon.

You can also add a touch of paprika into the batter mix.