How to Prepare Perfect Beer Battered Fish and Chips

Beer Battered Fish and Chips
Beer Battered Fish and Chips

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, beer battered fish and chips. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Dry cod with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Pour beer into the flour mixture and whisk, adding more as needed, until batter is the consistency of thick pancake batter. Dip fish pieces into the batter to coat; lift out and let excess drip off.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have beer battered fish and chips using 9 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Beer Battered Fish and Chips:
  1. Make ready 6 cod fillets (or haddock)
  2. Get 5 large potatoes
  3. Make ready 1 egg white
  4. Make ready 1 cup flour
  5. Take 1/2 can beer, dark beer works great
  6. Take 1 tsp baking powder
  7. Prepare 1 pint vegetable oil
  8. Take 1 pinch salt and pepper
  9. Get to taste malt vinegar

Tips for frying fish: Lightly coat fish in flour before battering to help batter stick better. Lightly dredge fish strips in cornstarch. Working in small batches, dip the fish into batter and immerse into hot oil. When the batter is set, turn the pieces of fish over and cook until golden.

Steps to make Beer Battered Fish and Chips:
  1. Sieve the flour into a large bowl.
  2. Crack the egg and separate out the yolk from the white.
  3. Briskly beat the egg white until aerated.
  4. Then add the baking powder, egg white and your 1/2 can of beer to the bowl of flour
  5. And genltly mix until it has a creamy texture then set to one side.
  6. Wash your potatoes and roughly cut into chips
  7. Bring the oil to a high heat and add the chips carefully. Cook for about 4 minutes then remove from the oil and lay on a paper towel.
  8. Next lay out your fish fillets and season well with salt and pepper.
  9. Now, gently dip your fish fillets into the batter mixture
  10. Then allow the excess batter to run off
  11. And gently lay the fish pieces into the hot oil.
  12. After about 4 minutes when the fish pieces are golden brown, gently remove them from the oil and lay on a paper towel.
  13. Put the chips back back in the hot oil for a minute or two if you need to, to crisp them up
  14. For a bit of fun, serve the fish in a piece of newspaper and don't forget plenty of salt and malt vinegar!

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