Shrimp in batter is not only nutritiousproduct, but also an excellent dietary dish, which is most often used as an ideal snack for wine or beer. For their preparation, there are many interesting recipes. Basically, all options are reduced to deep-fried seafood. And the main difference lies in the composition of the batter used. In addition, there are small subtleties of technology that you also need to know in order to learn how to cook such a dish yourself. For this it is worthwhile to consider in detail some of the most interesting recipes.
Shrimp in plain batter
To cook the most common shrimp in batter, you must prepare the following ingredients:
- 0.5 kilograms of fresh shrimp;
- 30 grams of potato starch;
- 1 tablespoon of water;
- 5 grams of salt;
- 140-150 grams of wheat flour;
- 12 grams of soda (or baking powder);
- sunflower oil.
As soon as all products are assembled, you can start work:
- In a deep saucepan, boil water.
- Put shrimp in it. After 2 minutes, fold them into a colander and allow the products to cool.
- Remove shell from shell. In this case, the tail can be left.
- Now make a cruise. To do this, combine the flour in a deep bowl with salt and starch.
- Gradually adding cold water, knead the dough to medium consistency.
- Put it in the fridge for about half an hour.
- In a preheated pan, pour the oil.
- Take out the dough and add soda (slaked vinegar) to it and mix well. The mass will begin to bubble.
- Peeled shrimps are first breaded in flour, then dipped in cooked batter and dipped in boiling oil. The dough around the clam is baked instantly, forming a ruddy pie.
- Finished products to get a slotted spoon and put on a napkin to remove excess fat from them.
You get amazing shrimps in batter that you can eat just like that or serve with different sauces.
Shrimp in beer batter
Не менее вкусными будут креветки в кляре, cooked with the addition of chilled beer. It is thanks to this component that a pleasant crisp crust is formed on the surface of the finished product. In this case, in addition to the shrimp themselves, we need a slightly different set of products:
- 160-180 milliliters of light chilled beer;
- 1 cup of flour;
- salt;
- 1 egg white;
- 300-350 grams of vegetable oil;
- ginger sauce
For this dish uses the following technology:
- Thaw shrimp (if necessary), then pour boiling water over it and drain in a colander to drain the water.
- After this treatment, the shellfish will be cleaned.much easier. First, each shrimp need to remove the head, and then carefully remove the shell. There will be only pure meat. Sometimes the tail is also retained for the external effect.
- For the batter, pour the flour into the bowl and then slowly pour the beer, stirring constantly with a spoon.
- Add 2-3 pinches of salt.
- Separately beat the whites in the foam.
- Gently attach it to the total mass.
- Each shrimp, holding the tail, dip into a batter, and then throw in boiling vegetable oil.
Finished products first need to hold on a paper towel, and then lay on a dish and serve to the table along with spicy ginger sauce.
Japanese tempura
Tempura is a special category of Japanese dishes.the kitchen. Their distinguishing feature is that various products are first prepared in batter, and then deep-fried. Today such dishes are especially popular. One of the variants of tempura is shrimps in batter. The recipe for making them in Japanese requires the following ingredients:
- 500 grams of large shrimp;
- 5 grams of salt;
- 300 milliliters of ice water;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- 10 milliliters of sesame oil;
- 160 grams of flour;
- any vegetable refined oil (for frying).
The cooking process can be divided into several stages:
- All shrimp peel off the shell. On each of them from the inside to make a cross-shaped incision. After that, the meat of the mollusk can be gently stretched in the form of a flat strip.
- Mix flour with baking powder in a bowl with salt, and then dilute with ice water. Pour sesame oil into a homogeneous mass and mix thoroughly again.
- Put the oil in a saucepan on the stove and heat to 200 ° C.
- Shrimp dipped in batter and gently dipped in boiling fat.
- Ruddy prawns need to get out of the pan and spread on a napkin.
To the table they are usually served with soy sauce. But if you wish, you can take exactly the one you like at home.
Shrimps in garlic-nut batter with egg
How else can you make shrimp in batter? Photo of an unfamiliar recipe will help to better understand it. First you need to do the basic ingredients. For this option will need:
- shrimp;
- 4 eggs;
- 100 grams of sour cream;
- 120 grams of starch;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- salt;
- 6 tablespoons of peeled walnuts;
- 400-450 grams of vegetable oil;
- 2-3 grams of ground black pepper;
- 4 tablespoons finely chopped parsley.
Cooking the dish itself is easy:
- Peel the shrimps for 5 minutes in lightly salted water.
- Fry the nuts a little in the pan, then cool them and chop them randomly.
- After that, they need to add chopped greens, grated garlic, sour cream and 2 yolks. Stir the products well, salt and add a little pepper.
- Separately, whip all proteins into foam with a small amount of water. Without stopping the process, slowly introduce 60 grams of starch (the rest of the product will be needed for breading). The batter is ready.
- Now you can proceed to the final stage. Shrimp roll in starch, and then dip in batter and immediately throw in boiling oil.
The combination of different components after baking gives the "dough" an original taste that is ideally suited to the tender clam meat.
Taste of popular fast food
Russia has a well-developed fast-food restaurant chain.power, working on the system of the popular American corporation "McDonalds." In the menu of such institutions there is a lot of dish cooked in batter. Among them are meat, vegetables and, of course, seafood. But an experienced hostess, if desired, can also make shrimp in batter as in McDonald's. This will require:
- 200 grams of fresh shrimp meat;
- 60 grams of flour;
- 2-3 grams of salt;
- half a cup of water;
- a pinch of soda;
- a quarter of a teaspoon of ground ginger;
- 200-220 grams of vegetable oil;
- 2 teaspoons of sesame seeds;
- ½ tsp ground red paprika.
In order to avoid mistakes, the work is best done step by step:
- For the recipe you need pure shrimp meat.If not, then you first need to remove it from the shell of mollusks. It is advisable to use royal (large) shrimp. With little will have to mess around for a long time.
- The next step is to prepare the batter. Flour must be diluted with water, adding salt, spices, soda and seeds. The mass should be quite liquid.
- Put shrimp in batter. So it will be faster. If desired, you can dip each piece into it separately.
- Heat oil in a saucepan (or fryer).
- Portioned shrimp in it. They should swim freely in boiling fat and not stick together.
- As soon as the blanks become reddened, they need to be reached with a skimmer and put on a plate covered with a napkin.
Cheese, soy, any sweet and sour sauce is suitable for serving to such shrimps.
