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Beer Battered Deep Fried Turkey

Beer Battered Deep Fried Turkey. One of the most delicious ways ever to serve leftover turkey. Many will actually prefer these leftovers to the original roast turkey dinner!

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Beer Battered Deep Fried Turkey

This recipe comes from long before frying a whole bird in gallons of oil in your back yard became trendy or fashionable. Deep fried turkey meant batter fried turkey to many of us.

I first had a version of this “leftover rescue” recipe decades ago at Marshall’s Restaurant on Water Street in Bay Robert’s.

Marshall’s Restaurant is long gone but this recipe idea still survives. It has become a standard post-holiday or anytime leftover turkey meal idea.

Beer Battered Deep Fried Turkey close up photo showing the crispy batter broken open to show turkey inside

Beer Battered Deep Fried Turkey

Some in my family might even prefer these leftovers to traditional roast turkey.

It also goes great served with leftover Cranberry Sauce, Savoury Stuffing, french fries or Oven Baked Crispy Wedge Fries.

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Yield: 12 pieces

Beer Battered Deep Fried Turkey

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

Beer Battered Deep Fried Turkey - one of the most delicious ways ever to serve leftover turkey. Many will actually prefer these leftovers to the original roast turkey dinner!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup rice flour
  • 1/2 tsp teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
  • 1 large egg, lightly beaten
  • 2 1/4 cups cold beer or soda water, club soda
  • 3 to 4 pounds of thick cut sliced leftover turkey
  • Oil for deep frying

Instructions

  1. Combine dry ingredients. Add the egg and soda water or beer and whisk together just until the liquid is incorporated. Small lumps in the batter are not a problem.
  2. Slice leftover roast turkey into thick slices.
  3. Dip the pieces into plain flour and then into the batter and carefully drop them into canola oil filled deep fryer that has been preheated to 375 degrees F.
  4. Fry for a few minutes, just until golden brown on both sides.
  5. Drain on a wire rack placed over a cookie sheet. Serve immediately.
  6. If you have to fry the turkey in more than one batch at a time, hold the fried pieces in a 200 degree F oven on the draining rack to provide air circulation all the way around the fried turkey pieces to prevent it from getting soggy.

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Nutrition Information

Yield

12

Serving Size

1 piece

Amount Per Serving Calories 224Total Fat 8gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 6gCholesterol 57mgSodium 147mgCarbohydrates 20gFiber 1gSugar 0gProtein 13g

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.

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Rhonda

Thursday 5th of January 2017

Is there a substitute for the rice flour that you recommend if rice flour is unavailable?

Barry C. Parsons

Monday 9th of January 2017

I've never tried anything but rice flour, sorry. It does have to be a hard flour like that.

ERIN

Wednesday 4th of January 2017

Don't have rice flour can I use regular flour??

Barry C. Parsons

Monday 9th of January 2017

You can but you won't get the same crispiness. The rice flour also prevents it from going soggy and soft.

Donna

Thursday 24th of November 2016

Hi, when making the batter, do you mix the AP flour and the rice flour together with the other ingredients or is the 1c AP flour for dipping the pieces before dipping into the batter. Thanks

Barry C. Parsons

Thursday 24th of November 2016

Both flours get mixed together.

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