Easy Crispy Battered Fish Recipe | Lemon Herb Tartar Sauce Recipe

Well, to start my

crispy

battered

fish

, I'm going to use two pounds of cod. Basically, I rinsed the

fish

in cold water and dried it with some towels. Now I'm going to salt it, usually when you do it. making fish I know a general rule of thumb is to salt after cooking so as not to toughen the fish, but I want that to happen because it will be easier when it comes time to fry and handle, so I added salt and pepper now. I'm going to place this in the refrigerator until I need it. Okay, now I'm going to work with the dough.

Now I'm going to sift 1 and 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour. After you have saved the flour, you can season according to your preferences and use whatever dry seasonings you prefer. I'm going to start with 1 teaspoon of

lemon

pepper right into the bowl. I'll also add a teaspoon of onion. powder again, you can adjust the proportion of these dry ingredients or add the ingredients you want. I'm also going to add a teaspoon of paprika and you can also add a little bit of cayenne for heat, but I usually just use paprika and I'm also going to add 2 teaspoons of baking powder not to be confused with baking soda.

I'm using baking powder and I'm going to show you what I'm using so now I'm going to add it right into the bowl and I'm also going to give this a good mix to combine everything now when I made this I completely forgot that I need to add salt so at this point you will want to add whatever salt you prefer. I'm going to add 1/2 tsp. of salt you can add less or you can add more, it just depends on your preference, but you will want to add salt now and continue combining the dry ingredients, so once you have added all the seasonings and spices, now is the time to add the liquid normally you'll probably want to add beer, but I want to show you that I like to use Pacheco, this is basically club soda and I'm looking at this, normally I want to do this, I'm looking at the ingredients, but right now I'm going to measure it out for you and I started with maybe less than a cup but I will eventually add 450 milliliters of eco footage or again if you want to use beer you can do this with a beer batter but I just like to use what I have on hand and I always have the Pacheco and it works great, so I'm just going to mix this up and obviously I'm going to add a little bit more and I'll have all the ingredients and measurements that I used this

recipe

under this video so you can check the exact measurements so basically once you have this consistency it's not very thick nor thin, it's enough to coat the fish adequately and that's what you're looking for, think of it as a pancake mix pretty much how you would make pancakes, so once that's done I'm going to dredge all my fish in flour.

You can add more salt to the flour, but I think everything is seasoned well again. You can add little things here and there to your preference, so I'm going to coat and dredge each piece of fish and this in turn will help the batter stick to the fish, so you won't want to skip this step. Okay, once you're done dredging the fish, by the way You're going to want to remove a little bit of that excess flour, you don't want it to build up there, but you do want to dredge it up, so now it's ready to fry, so here I've been preheating my oil, you want to preheat it somewhere between 350 degrees Fahrenheit to 375 no hotter than 375 and here's my batter, so now I'm going to dip the fish into the batter and directly into the oil.

I'm going to fry this cod for about two or three minutes or until everything is done. The dorado fish cooks very quickly and the cooking time will also depend on how coarse or thin or what type of fish you are cooking, so today I am using a very thick and chunky piece of cod, so I think two to three minutes or until golden brown. Browning works once each piece of fish is ready to fry. I'll place it on a baking sheet with a rack and that will allow some clean residual oil to fall to the bottom so at this point my fish is golden brown.

crispy

brown and tender inside.

I can't wait and I want to show you this homemade

tartar

sauce

that I made and I kind of looked and used what I had, but I'll put what I made in the description below, it's basically a cup. and a half of good mayonnaise I have added two tablespoons or maybe a tablespoon and a half of sweet

sauce

I am also going to add the juice of half a large

lemon

and as you can see I zest a little of the lemon but I didn't have much zest to use, so here I'm going to add about two tablespoons of fresh chives, a tablespoon of fresh dill and a little bit of lemon zest because I used most of it in another

recipe

, except one tablespoon of the lemon zest works in this and I'll also add half a teaspoon of lemon pepper and a quarter teaspoon of onion powder and I'll also give it a good mix and let it sit in the refrigerator for at least an hour I actually made this the night before by the way I'm adding a little extra pepper and that's it, this is a delicious lemon

herb

flavored

tartar

sauce and it's so delicious with this, okay now it's time to delve into this crispy crispy fish and I definitely want you to hear how crispy and crunchy it is.

I hope you try this recipe. I hope you like it and thanks for watching.