Oil for frying (about 8 cups) $8.80
2 eggs $0.34
2 teaspoons of Emeril’s Essence $2.25
1.5 cups all-purpose flour $0.33
1 tablespoon baking powder $0.12
1 can beer $1.60
4 fillets fish (I used halibut) $15.04
Salt to taste  $0.01

Total Cost  $28.49

1.) Heat up the oil in a Dutch oven or a deep fryer to between 350 adn 375 degrees Fahrenheit. (I used a deep fryer.)

2.) Combine the eggs, Essence, flour, baking powder, and beer in a large bowl to mix.

3.) One by one, dip the fish into the batter. When taking the fish out of the batter, be sure to hold it up for a second so that the extra batter can fall off.

4.) Place the fish into the oil and fry until the batter becomes golden on all sides.

5.) After removing cooked fish from the oil, spread pieces out on a paper towel to allow them to drain. Season with salt to taste.

6.) Serve and enjoy!

Read the review here

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I found this Emeril recipe on the Food Network site. Ideally I’d like to eat fish once a week and, with myself being the only in the family that really likes it, I do have to find ways to make it extra tasty. I really thought that I wouldn’t be able to go wrong with fish n’ chips. But it turns out that I gave myself too much credit. This meal quickly turned into a disaster.

As you can probably tell from the picture, this meal didn’t go so well. And I have no idea what the problem was! The batter was very easy to make and didn’t take long or involve a lot of ingredients. The original recipe did call for cod and I used halibut but I don’t think that would be a big enough difference to turn a wonderful dinner into a big mess. The problems came mostly when I put the fish in the fryer and then, just about anything that could go wrong did.

The biggest problem was that the batter dripped through the basket and formed. This caused the fish to be cooked right onto the basket, making lifting it out extra tricky. Of course when I did that, all the batter came off. Me and Brent both also found that the batter didn’t have a lot of taste. Maybe I didn’t add enough salt at the end or maybe I missed something in Emeril’s Essence when I made it. It didn’t taste bad. It just didn’t taste like anything at all.

Give the recipe a try if you’d like. I hope it goes better for you than it did for me! And let me know what you did if it does!

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