Cooking Fish
How do U guys and girls cook your fish, today we tried home made chilli beer batter
Tommy’s chilli Beer Batter
3/4 cup of self rasing flour
1/2 cup of corn flour
pinch of salt
1/2 tea spoon of chilli
1 stubbie of carton mid beer
1 egg
Fillets: Herring and Tailor are used
hint: chilli, get the ones out of the noodle packs
Mix together the self raising flour, cornflour and egg yolk, slowly adding beer until the batter has the consistency of pouring cream.
Make sure the batter is beaten thoroughly and there are no lumps then add chilli and mix well.
(Tip: for extra crispy batter, beat the egg white in separate bowl until fluffy. Fold into the beer batter mixture.)
Wack on the deep fryer and let it get hot, lob in your batter fish fillets and watch them cook, Cook for 4-5 minutes, until crisp and brown.
Remove with slotted spoon and drain on paper towel. server hot with fresh salad, sit back and enjoy with a chilled beer in hand.
image is last nights Herring and Tailor caught
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hungry
Making me very hungry Karl!! Looking foward to trying that.
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Put some ice into a bowel pour half a stubby of your mates favorite beer in ad enough plain flour to thicken dust fillets in flour dip in batter deep fry. a bit of lemon and salt .perfect
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also saw recipe like what everybody has said and they added half a teaspoon of yeast, stand for 1hr then cook normally
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Yr making my keyboard soggy
Yr making my keyboard soggy with drool Karl ! Love chilli so will deffo give this a bash. Being a slacko I love Mary Macks Beer Batter premix sachets. They are gold, although I will give your recepie a crack.
Also Stu is on the money. Ticket to crispy batter may be egg white - BUT temp is a big key. Colder the better as the cold batter VS hot oil instantly seals and goes mega crispy. I think we need a sep thread just for batter if notr already done
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Yummie
Great effort Karl and good onya for posting recipe and pic. I keep at the smoking bit and have still yet to really master it.
When I get around to it I will psot a recipe for the BEST baked fillets with baked vegies. I use Salmon (Tasmanian) mostly coz the missus likes it for here waistline. It works perfectly well for other fat bodied critters.
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Smoked
These ones are done in Raw Sugar, left in fridge for an hour then put onto a fish smoker.
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self rasing
These one's were rolled in self rasing flour then cooked.
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Yummie again.. Stop Teasing me.. LOL
It looks like you have the same smoker as me mate. When I first started I uses 2 layers and the chips exploded contaminating the lower deck so to speak. I got pissed off spitting out pungent wood chips. Other times I think my brine was wrong and the taste was again quite pungent. I am getting there though.... Sigh....
Flour, slight egg dip and plenty of salt and pepper. Lightly pan fried in butter.....Yum.
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The smoked fish looks
The smoked fish looks interesting. Seasoned in raw sugar? Must be really sweet.
Could you share the recipe and method?
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I'll lend you my smoker
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Nearly the same
I put the fillets in a strong brine in the fridge for 3-4 hours then rub brown sugar liberally over them,then into the smoker.
Its the only time I eat mullet is smoked this way,herring,salmon and tuna get the same treatment.Other way to do herring--just put them straight on the BBQ plate uncleaned.The guts shrivels up into a little ball and the scales flake off.Magic
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It's pretty simple alfred ,
It's pretty simple alfred , I rub the raw sugar onto the fillets coating both sides of the fillet, let it sit for abit then place into the smoker, I put a fin layer of saw dust 5mm across the bottom then light the flame and sit back for 15 minutes.
Saw dust is Iron Bark
Coated with Raw sugar
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I am Hungry now!
I will deffinately get the mrs to whip up a batch of those chilli beer batter fish.. yummy
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More Images
Here's a better image of the deep fried herring fillets, add as much chill as you want to get the taste you like.
And the ones below are Tailor Fillets
I do all this because I have a young family that don't like bones in there fish, so I have to find new ways on cooking fish and making it interesting for my kids.
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Cheers for that, gotta try
Cheers for that, gotta try that one day.
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You can also substitute the
You can also substitute the chilli for a little curry powder.
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Video Frying Fillets
Just for you boys
a short video on frying tailor fillets to match the above recipe
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1673854064075078177
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Try yellow tail kingy in the
Try yellow tail kingy in the smoker. Absolutely awesome.
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gotta catch one first
gotta catch one first LOL
thanks, may be one day I'll get to try one a smoker.
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