fried batter

Hot oil dough

Fried batter is dough or liquid mixture cooked in hot oil until crisp.

It forms the basis of countless foods: doughnuts, funnel cakes, hush puppies, tempura, fritters.

The batter may coat other ingredients—fried batter around the fish—or stand alone as the finished product.

State fairs and boardwalks have made fried batter a vehicle for increasingly outlandish creations: fried Oreos, fried butter, fried Kool-Aid.

Related

fritter · corn fritter · churro · funnel cake · corndog · fish and chips · pancake · crunch · oil · sizzle · coating · breaded · hot oil · crisp · flaky · savory · sweet · carnival

Opposites
cooking method

fried batterbaked goods

Foods made by baking

preparation state

fried batterunbattered

Not struck or damaged

plain flour · dry ingredients

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G