Recipe for beer batter
Delicious, crispy homemade onion rings with beer batter.
As long as there is beer in the house, beer batter is super simple to whip up without the need for various fancy ingredients or tools.
What is beer batter? Beer batter is essentially just a mixture of beer and flour. This forms a batter that can be used to give a thin, crispy coating on everything from fish to onion rings.
When the English make fish and chips, it is traditionally beer batter that is used to coat the fish. It creates a super crispy crunch and a significantly different texture compared to the classic breadcrumb coating that we Danes like to use for our fish fillets or pork croquettes.
Ingredients
- 2 Sweet Onions Large
- 100 gram Flour
- 150 gram Rice Flour
- 10 gram Brown sugar
- 5 gram Baking Soda
- 330 gram Beer dark
- 1 l Frying Oil
Instructions
- Start by cutting off the bottom and top of the onions.
- Halve the onions crosswise.
- Now separate the onions into their layers to get onion rings.
- Sprinkle them with a bit of flour. This is to ensure the batter sticks to them.
- Take a bowl.
- Put flour, rice flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and the beer in the bowl. It's important to open the beer just before use so it doesn’t go flat. The reason for this is that the carbonation is a key component in a beer batter.
- Mix it gently so as not to whisk the carbonation out of the beer.
- Find a ½-liter siphon bottle.
- Pour the mixture into the siphon bottle.
- Insert two chargers into the siphon.
- Shake the siphon bottle vigorously.
- Gradually squirt the batter onto the onion rings.
- Coat the onion rings in the batter.
- Pour oil into your fryer, sauté pan, or pot.
- Heat the oil until it is smoking hot.
- Fry the onion rings until they are crispy.
- Serve the onion rings as a snack with ice-cold beer, enjoy them with a delicious dip, or as a side to a juicy burger.