Make Beer Battered Cod Fish & Chips just like the ones from the pub at home.
Beer Battered Cod Fish & Chips
- 4 cups canola, peanut, or vegetable oil (for frying)
- 1 cup flour
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt plus more for sprinkling
- 1o ounces of your favorite pilsner beer or club soda, chilled
- 3 pounds fresh or frozen and defrosted cod
Preheat oil for frying in a small deep fryer to 375°F. If you’d rather, you can heat it in a heavy-duty pan and use a thermometer.
Line a baking sheet with a few layers of paper towels to rest your fried items on so excess oil will drain onto the paper towels.
Rinse fish, cut into about 2-inch strips, and pat dry with paper towels. This will allow the tempura to stick to it better.
Place dry ingredients in a medium-large bowl and whisk until well-combined. Whisk in beer or club soda just until combined. Don’t overmix.
Allow tempura mixture to sit while your oil finishes heating up.
When frying oil reaches 375°F, coat a few pieces of fish with tempura mixture and carefully place them in fryer one by one. Hold each in the oil for about 30 seconds before letting go so it will cook enough to float and not sink to the bottom of the fryer. Do not overcrowd the fryer because if you do, the fish will stick together during cooking and it will cool down your oil too much. The oil that has cooled down too much will make for soggy breading rather than a lovely crunchy coating.
Cook for three minutes on each side. Use a utensil that’s safe in hot oil to move them around a bit during the cooking process so they are cooked on all sides. The coating should be a beautiful golden brown. Place them on the baking sheet and sprinkle with sea salt right away.
Enjoy while hot. Serve with fries.
You can you swordfish, halibut. Or your fav. If you’d like to use frozen fish, be sure to defrost and pat dry with paper towels to remove excess moisture before cooking.
Excellent recipe. Before I mixed we with dry, I used the dry to dredge fish that had been dried and salt and peppers, then let the fish rest. Then dredged the onion rings. Once you add the wet to dry let sit as suggested. Then dip rings shaking off extra, then rolled in crushed panko crumbs seasoned with salt and pepper. Cook rings at 350° about 2 minutes a side then hold in oven. Then dip fish and fry as instructed.