Basic Beer Battered fish

Ingredients
-1 beer (any beer will work)
-all purpose flour
-salt and pepper to taste
-teaspoon of sugar
-1 egg
-teaspoon of baking powder
-fish fillets
-oil (I prefer to use peanut oil, but vegetable oils will work)

Directions
Preheat deep fryer or pan with oil of depth deeper than fish fillets to 325 degrees. Take your beer and pour into a large bowl. Crack your egg into the bowl and beat them together with a whisk until they are mixed together. Add the sugar, baking powder, and desired amount of salt and pepper. You can use a little season salt also if you would like. Whisk those together. Add a cup of flour and whisk until smooth. Here is where you will need to check the consistency of the batter. If it is runny you will need to keep adding flour until it is almost the thickness of pancake mix. If you feel the batter is too thick you can add more beer or a little bit of water to thin the batter mix. Generally, the thicker the batter the thicker the crust will be on the fish. Dip fish fillet in wet batter mix and drop into 325 degree oil. Repeat until pan or deep fryer is full. If cooking in pan, flip fish after a couple minutes of cooking. Take golden fish fillets and drain off excess oil by letting them cool on paper towel.

Note: Prepare bacon, lettuce and tomato like you would for your blt’s. Add this beer battered fish and you will have a fish blt that is filling and delicious.

MWalsh 2009