Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make lean batter without eggs for fish? Prepare the products. Garlic and spices can be used according to availability or taste.
Step 2:
Sift flour into a deep bowl. This simple method will not only remove possible debris, but also enrich it with oxygen, which will make the batter more lush and airy.
Step 3:
Add salt and a mixture of ground peppers (or your other favorite spices) to the flour.
Step 4:
Add a pinch of baking soda. You can do without it, but soda will make the batter even more magnificent.
Step 5:
Mix the dry components of the batter.
Step 6:
Now add water gradually, stirring the dough with a spoon or whisk to the desired consistency. Adjust this by the amount of liquid being poured in.
Step 7:
You should get a homogeneous, creamy dough. Do not make the batter too liquid — it will drain from the fish. If this still happened, then add more flour.
Step 8:
Crush with a garlic press or finely chop a clove of garlic and add it to the dough. Mix it up. Leave the batter to stand for 10-15 minutes, it will become even better, like any dough.
Step 9:
That's it. Your batter without eggs for lean fish is ready. Dip into it any fish that you are preparing to fry, and fry in preheated oil. I had a capelin today. Enjoy your meal!
Batter is a semi—liquid flour mixture that allows you to keep all their juices in fried foods. The batter makes it possible not only to get delicious fish, but also clogs the fishy smell, which is not always pleasant. This is further facilitated by the addition of crushed garlic to the batter (if you are an opponent of the garlic-fish tandem, then just do not add it). The batter is very simple to cook: you need to combine all the ingredients and dilute with water, give the batter, like any dough, a little stand, and you can start frying any fish. For frying in batter, fish is usually cut into fillets or pieces of small-boned fish are taken, leaving only the backbone part (i.e. cutting it into separate steaks). Small capelin-type fish can be fried whole, removing the heads and insides. The batter envelops the pieces of fish and does not allow fish juices to flow out, leaving it juicy and appetizing. You can flavor the batter with any spices combined with fish, for example, thyme, rosemary, lemon zest and lemon juice, a mixture of crushed peas of peppers.
You can serve fish fried in lean batter with fresh herbs, vegetable salads, pickles and marinades.
Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper).
For cooking, it is better to use filtered or bottled water that is neutral to taste. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste.
Is it possible to replace baking powder with soda, how to add them correctly so that the baking is lush, how to avoid an unpleasant soda taste and much more, read the article "Baking powder or baking soda - which is better?"
Calorie content of the products possible in the dish
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Wheat flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Baking soda - 0 kcal/100g
