Beer Batter Chicken Strips Recipe

Ingredients

1 large egg
3/4 cup beer
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Ground black pepper
3 chicken breast halves; skinless, boneless
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil

Preparation

Step 1

Beat the egg lightly with a whisk. Beat in the beer, then the dry ingredients, whisking until smooth. Cover and let stand for 25 to 30 minutes before using.

Cut chicken breasts in half lengthwise. Heat oil in 10-inch skillet over a medium-high heat until oil reaches desired temperature of 360 degrees (or use deep fryer). Using tongs to hold chicken strips, dip in batter; allow excess to drip off. Remove and carefully lower, one by one, into the hot oil. After about 1 minute, turn the strips. Continue to turn the strips occasionally until they are golden, cooking for a total of 4 to 6 minutes.

Transfer to to a paper towel lined tray. Pat more towels on top to absorb excess oil. Serve immediately with barbecue sauce or sweet and sour sauce.
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REVIEWS:

I made this about 30 mins ago and everyone loved it. My husband was said it was the best chicken he had ever tasted. I did how ever make the tenders a little larger so I had to increase cook time. Also I threw some extra seasonings into the batter like Seasoning salt, Accent just whatever was laying around. I had no problems with the the consistency of the batter and used the full one cup of flour as called for and it turned out AMAZING! I will make this recipe again for sure.

I just tried this recipe; and, by the way, it's awesome! tastes great! we did as another suggested--used 3/4 c. flour, rather than 1 cup. worked well. we did, initially, have some difficulty with the tenders sticking to the fry basket, til we tried something new--after battering, we re-dredged in dry flour. then off to the fryer. worked like a charm!

DELICIOUS! Very good batter. First time to try this recipe. Just do not get the batter too thick and let the strips drain a lot of the batter off before you place in the hot oil.

OUTSTANDING! Don't listen to the bad reviews. This beer batter is very good. I made it tonight in the deep fryer, and I loved it. I used a little less flour, and added some seasoned salt to the batter and it turned out fantastic. Also, roll the chicken in dry flour before you dip it in the batter. It cooks fast, so rotate the chicken lot to keep it from burning. Yum.

Great batter recipe! I made this for dinner: it turned out great. I think all the poor reviews listed are a result of inexperience with frying battered-foods -- you have to adjust the consistency of the batter with more or less flour and beer.

Modified and super tasty. I read the other reviews & thought I'd modify this recipe so the batter wasn't too thick & wouldn't fall off in the pan. I used less flour (only 3/4 cup) and used half a packet of generic "chicken coating mix" from Safeway. After dipping the chicken in the batter, I rolled the chicken in the other half of the chicken coating mix (it's dry) along with bread crumbs & then cooked it. It was fantastic.

I didn't care for this. The batter was too heavy and it had hardly any flavor.

HORRIBLE!! This was a horrible recipe! Once you put the chicken in the frying pan the batter stuck to the pan and was a complete mess. Once the chicken was done and I took it out of the pan the batter fell off the chicken entirely. The presentation was horrible. The taste was also not very good. I ended up throwing out the chicken once I tried it. I wil definitely NOT make this recipe again! Please save your time and ingredients, dont make this recipe!!

The dough turned out very thick and ended up falling off the chicken as we put it into the deep fryer. It soaked up way too much of the oil and we ended up discarding the rest of the mixture.

The batter is wonderful! Great recipe. My only problem was that my first couple of pieces of chicken were to big. Can't wait to try it again.