Nothing like a chilled beer on a hot summer day! A phrase that is often used. You might like to enjoy it on its own but it can be used in recipes as well. Beer gives an earthy flavor to food. It can be used in marination, cooking and baking. When you add it to your recipe, the bitteness of the beer is balanced out by the sweetness that onions, tomatoes and other veggies provide. You will be amazed at what goodness it can do to a recipe!
For the theme on “Food Love” I chose a topic to write about a recipe with an unusual ingredient. Wanted it to be something extraordinary. By now you know that beer is the unusual ingredient.
So let’s get started with the recipe…
Ingredients
Freshwater Fish 750gm
Oil 4 tbsp
Ginger 100gms
Garlic 100gm
Fresh Red Chillies 20gms
1 Red Bell pepper
1 Yellow Bell pepper
Shallots 100gms
Coriander Sprigs
1 Capsicum
1 Mild Beer (I used Turbo mild)
Light Soy 25ml
Oyster Sauce 25ml
Salt as needed
Pepper as needed
Procedure
Season the fish with salt & pepper and leave it until you chop your other ingredients. Chop the ginger in julienne. Crushed the whole garlic pods. Chop the fresh Red chillies. You may keep them a little longer in pieces to pick them out easily later after cooking. Chop the capsicum and bell peppers into juliennes. Chop coriander leaves and shallots into strands.
Heat oil in a deep saucepan in which you will cook your fish. Add the fish pieces skin side down and fry it until half done. Remove and keep it aside.
Heat some more oil. Add ginger julienne, crushed garlic pods and chopped fresh chillies.
Saute it for around 2 mins. Now add bellpeppers and capsicum. Add salt and saute for a while. Make sure you add just a pinch or two as we are using soy sauce and oyster sauce in this recipe which already contain salt.
Once the veggies are 60% cooked, remove half of it from the pan aside.
Place the fish pieces on top of it. Now dress the fish with the veggies you kept aside.
Place the coriander and shallot strands on it. Add soy and oyster sauce from the sides of the fish.
Now pour the beer around the fish. As soon as you add the beer it will bubble up and will continue for a while.
Let it cook till the beer sauce is thick. Once the sauce is thickened, turn off the flame.
Your Beer Fish is ready.
Serve this savoury Beer Fish over a bowl of rice and I’m sure you will enjoy it!
You can even use sea fish with this recipe but just be careful with your pinch of salt. You can also add tomatoes to the recipe for more tang.
With this post I am taking my blog to the next level with Blogchatter’s #MyFriendAlexa and you can find all my posts for the theme “Food love” under the hashtag #seemabwrites .
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This is a unique recipe. Looks very tempting too.
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I have seen in cooking shows that beer is used for marination. I am a vegetarian so may be able to try this recipe. Will forward to my fish-lover friends.
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I am a vegetarian but the recipe is looking really interesting. Loved the way you had shared all details with step by step photos.
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Wow! Beer fish name itself so fascinating. I am still not able to imagine the taste of a scrumptious dish. I would definitely love to give it a try only for my husband, not for kids. Images are proving the level of deliciousness.
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Actually kids can relish it too as the alcohol in the beer goes away as u cook. It’s similar to French food cooked with wine like pasta.
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Is this good for kids to eat too?? Or is it just a date night kinda food. Unique though I don’t really enjoy beer. And hubby doesn’t like fish hahahhaa.
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The alcohol goes away just like when u use wine in Italian food so even kids can enjoy it.
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I have never heard of Beer fish Seema 🙂 Whisky rum, yes but not beer..hope the fish doesn’t hops 🙂 Amazing recipe I must say.
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Oh wow. A very different recipe. Actually I had never heard of it. However being a fish eater I can definitely try your recipe.
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Beer batter fried fish is actually pretty common and delicious too but it is nice to see that you have used beer differently in your unique recipe.
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Seema, you have excellently used the ingredients for the best outcome. This is must try recipe for all beer lovers.
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We are vegetarians and frankly I never knew one can add bear in fish. I though beer and rum goes in cakes only..
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A friend of mine is a complete seafood lover. This dish looks colourful and am sure she would like to try this out. Will share it with her.
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Wow Seema this is an easy recipe with an interesting touch of Beer… but being a vegetarian I wish o had an option of cooking it with sme other ingredient…..
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I’m not sure but story fry veggies can be tried out.
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Beer fish sounds interesting, I wonder does it taste interesting too. I am sure it does by looking at these pictures. It is definitely something unique, I haven’t heard that before, cooking fish in beer.
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Looks devine! I would love to give it a try soon. I have tried to make beer braised dishes before it didn’t work out. This seems like a good idea ☺️
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Glad that you liked it! Surely try it 😊
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