Fish with mayonnaise in batter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients according to the list. You can use any fish according to taste and availability, I have a silver carp. The fish is thoroughly washed, gutted, cleaned, cut off the head, tail, fins, cut the flesh into small pieces, rinse them again and let the water drain. If desired, you can remove the backbone bone from the pulp, and cut the flesh into fillet pieces, but the fish is well fried in batter even in whole pieces.

2. Step 2:

   

   Making batter for fish. We drive chicken eggs into a bowl, the number of eggs used depends on the weight of the fish, add mayonnaise, salt, ground black pepper to taste, and any other spices if desired. However, it should be borne in mind that mayonnaise already contains salt and other flavorings, so that the batter does not turn out too salty.

3. Step 3:

   

   Using a hand whisk or mixer, mix the ingredients so that the mixture becomes homogeneous in consistency, if the mixture turns out to be thick, then pour in a little water and mix again. Pour in small portions of sifted wheat flour.

5. Step 4:

   

   Mix with a hand whisk or mixer so that there are no dry lumps left, the flour has dispersed in the dough and has not gathered into lumps. The batter should turn out thick as sour cream and similar in consistency to the dough for pancakes. We dip the prepared fish blanks into the batter so that it completely covers a piece of fish from all sides.

6. Step 5:

   

   Pour odorless vegetable oil into the pan, heat it well and spread the battered fish on the oil, let the batter grab on a piece of fish, reduce the heat to medium. Fry until golden brown on one side, then turn over the pieces of fish and also fry until golden brown on the other side. Then cover the pan with a lid, keep the fish in the pan for a few more minutes so that the meat is well fried inside.

7. Step 6:

   

   Remove the pieces of fish from the pan, put them on a paper towel so that the excess fat is absorbed into the paper. We transfer the fish to a serving dish and serve it to the table, optionally with or without a side dish. Bon appetit!