River Cottage | Hugh Fearnely-Whittingstall | Beer-battered fish

Hugh demonstrates a recipe from the River Cottage Fish Book: white fish, deep-fried in a batter made with beer.

River Cottage | Hugh Fearnely-Whittingstall | Beer-battered fish

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[jimjins05]

He's even done it with skullups and oyestiz.!

[hashashin821]

Does anyone else see the irony of his assistant being named Gill?

[smudgypalms]

okay. so how do you avoid getting batter ALL OVER the stove? I'm probably just hopelessly messy, but is there some trick to not dripping it everywhere? was a shame because i wanted to batter the chips too but i'd just end up with batter all over the floor.

[bubbyeater]

Try it. The first time we did this, we used corn oil, with great results.

[Jason Bourne]

Scullups

[BeautyHealthZoneBlog]

Nice. I would make this with prawns.

Can I use sunflower oil instead of peanut oil?

[therealplatinumkong]

Ground nut is Peanut. British v. American English.

[therealplatinumkong]

Ground nut AKA Peanut.

[adrkanis]

grand nut oil

[cquintanar41]

I didnt get the name of the oil. Some one could please tell wich was?

[burtcane]

he says ground nut oil but just use sunflower seed oil or peanut oil and it will taste delicious. any vegetable oil would work great or rice bran oil. olive oil is not reccomended.

[theunknowntree]

Tried this - great batter. Works like a dream if you dredge the fish in flour first.