Many people love fish for their tender and tasty meat. However, in order to cook it deliciously, you need to try. You can, of course, get along with simply frying flounder in vegetable oil, but you will not surprise anyone with this dish. Variety will help bring fish to the batter. The recipe for its preparation is not complicated, and the result will please the most demanding taste buds.
First, let’s clarify that batter is a dough with some additional ingredients. It is prepared so that a liquidy consistency is obtained, which allows dipping pieces of fillet of any type of meat and vegetables. In addition, batter allows you to make the dish more visible and mouth-watering, and this is the most important thing for the festive table.
Fish in batter can have a different recipe . The main difference will be the preparation of the batter itself. Usually housewives prefer cheese, beer and protein batter. First, prepare the fish. To do this, it is peeled, cut into pieces, the size of which is selected to your taste, then slightly salted and squeezed lemon on top. While the fish is slightly pickled, prepare the batter.
Protein batter.
The fish in the dough, the recipe of which will be given below, is especially tender. The batter is prepared from the proteins of 4-5 eggs, which are whipped with salt, then pour the sifted flour (2-3 tablespoons) and add water to obtain a consistency of 10% sour cream. Dip the fish into the resulting mixture and fry it in vegetable oil. There are two ways of frying: deep-fried or in a pan - choose any.
Cheese batter
Fish in batter, a recipe containing cheese, can become more nutritious, which is important in order to feed the strong half of the family. To make cheese batter, you will need to mix mayonnaise (2-3 tbsp. Tablespoons) with coarsely shredded hard cheese (100 g) and eggs (4 pieces). Salt, pepper and a few tablespoons of flour are also added. The process of further preparation is similar to the previous case.
Beer batter
100 g of sifted flour are poured onto the bottom of the dishes, in the middle they make a recess in which egg white and 2/3 glasses of beer are poured, salt, vegetable oil (2 tablespoons), after which everything is thoroughly mixed. As if in lace, you get fish in batter. The recipe provides exactly this, which is facilitated by a very liquid batter.
Potato batter
The fish in the dough recipe may have the following: for batter, several large potatoes are peeled and rubbed like pancakes. Salt, an egg and two tablespoons of flour are added to the potatoes. Fish heal between two layers of such a batter. The result is a kind of potato pancake with fish.
Still, batter is a fairly high-calorie way to cook fish, and yet fish is the best suited for diet dishes. An obvious example of this is Dairy fish. Recipes for dietary dishes can be different, but you should not refuse this in any case.
Milk fish
Milk fish - the recipe got its name because of the sauce, for the preparation of which, with boiling milk, topped with flour browning in a pan, is added to boiling milk. The sauce will be ready when it thickens, but to prevent the appearance of lumps, it is constantly stirred during cooking.
The fish prepared according to the above method is placed in a pan, into which a little ready sauce is preliminarily poured, the remaining sauce is poured over the fish, sprinkled with grated cheese and watered with vegetable oil. The oven is heated to 200-250 C and fish is baked in it. After cooking, put the fish on a dish, decorate with finely chopped greens and pour a small amount of butter.
In such simple ways, you can easily diversify the table for the whole family, especially if among them there are those who adhere to diets. After all, it will not make anyone believe that fish is ideal for a diet!