Prepare an All-Purpose Batter for Deep Frying

Series Summary

Deep frying is the cooking of a typically battered food by submerging it in hot oil. The oil cooks the food quickly trapping the water from the food inside and sealing the outside. Deep fried foods have become a major part of everyday life all over the world but especially in America. It seems like we can deep fry almost anything. Today, with more of an emphasis on health more and more people are trying to stay away from deep fried foods but they will probably remain a part of our diet for a long time to come.

Here are some great deep frying ideas for any occasion you might need to cook for. They're easy to do and a hit at any gathering. Everything from standard onion rings to deep fried snickers is on the menu of this video clip series. Your mouth is watering already. Follow the helpful tips of our expert and turn almost anything into a crispy, golden brown firecracker of flavor!

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Melody Mann and on behalf of Expert Village we are going to try and make some batter today, it is real simple, easy to do, ingredients you have around your house. First we start of with a 1/2 cup of all purpose flour. 2 tablespoon of cornstarch, a little bit of baking soda, some salt, some water. And as I'm putting them in the bowl I'll tell you how much is in there. Right now we have 2 tablespoons of oil just regular salad oil, cooking oil, just some oil to make it mix well. Let's take some of the wet ingredients and start them off. Alright here we have a 1/4 of a cup of water, we have 2 tablespoon of salad oil, Wesson oil any type of oil you have around the house that is edible. Mix those 2 together. Take some of these ingredients, this is our salt and what did I say we had in here a 1/4 of a tablespoon of salt I throw that in there. Now the whole time we are doing this you might want to start mixing just to be sure that things dissolve without being piled on top of each of other and not dissolving. I try to do this one handed here. Okay here we have a 1/4 of a tablespoon of baking soda put that in, make sure that it is mix. Here we have 2 tablespoon of cornstarch and again you want to mix this just a little bit. We would be mixing it a lot more in a minute and we have some all purpose flour and this was 1/4 of a cup. Now if you have a whisk you could use that but it would take a small whisk at this point we are making a small amount just for demonstration. We want it to be the consistency of pancake batter and this would be great for dipping mushrooms, fruits, vegetables, anything that you thing you might want to deep fry. Including cheeses, fish, anything you want to cook up. Now we are about the right consistency if you want some more this how to use this batter look in the next segment. "