5 Foods You Can Make With Beer

If you are a beer person who loves to host their own version of the MasterChef series in their kitchen with their pets in the audience, I am going to make you extremely happy with this listicle. I have brought you 5 food recipes that use beer as an ingredient

1. Beer-battered fish and chips

Who doesn’t love a good serving of fish and chips? Of course, I am not asking the vegetarians here. And to make this delicious human creation even more delicious, this recipe will use beer in the batter. 

What you’ll need:

• 720 g hake (fish)
• 60 ml flour
• lemon wedges
• salt and black pepper

For the batter

• 1 cup flour
• 60 ml corn flour
• 2.5 ml bicarbonate of soda
• salt and black pepper
• 1 cup chilled beer

For the chips 

• 6 potatoes, peeled and cut
• vegetable oil

Instructions:

1. For the batter, sift flour, corn flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and pepper into a bowl through a sieve
2. Add beer to it and mix gently
3. Chill the batter in the fridge
4. For the chips, heat oil in a saucepan
5. Fry the chips until golden brown, and keep aside
6. Season fish with salt and pepper
7. Dust it with flour
8. Dip the fish in the batter and fry until it’s cooked through
9. Serve with chips and lemon wedges

2. Spicy Beer Shrimp

Some spicy scrumptious seafood can make any foodie’s day. And if you are going to add beer to it, you might as well call your vegetarian friends to take a whiff. You never know, you might end up being the friend who helped them cross the path from the vegetarian aisle to the non-vegetarian one!

What you’ll need:

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 2/3 cup beer
• 2 tbsp  tomato paste
• 1/4 cup sweet chili sauce
• 1 tbsp cilantro 
• 1 pound raw unshelled shrimp ( peeled, deveined and patted dry)

Instructions:

1. Heat the oil and butter in a skillet
2. Add onion and cook for 5 min
3. Add beer, tomato paste, sweet chili sauce, and cilantro to it
4. Bring to a boil
5. Add shrimp to it
6. Cook for 3 min, flip, cook for 3 min again
7. When the shrimp is pink and curled up, remove from heat
8. Serve 

3. Chocolate Stout Bread

Of course I am going to give you a beer dessert option as well! A few slices of this delectable chocolate stout bread will keep you and your buddies happy and content with life.

What you’ll need:

• 1/4 cup buttermilk
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup chocolate stout beer
• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2/3 cup chocolate chips

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. Grease an 8×4 inch bread pan
3. Add eggs, buttermilk, vegetable oil, vanilla extract and brown sugar to a mixing bowl and whisk
4. Add chocolate stout to it and whisk again
5. Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt through a sieve into the bowl
6. Whisk well
7. Transfer the dough into the bread pan and spread evenly
8. Sprinkle the chocolate chips over it
9. Bake for 1 hour (until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean), and serve 

4. Beer-Battered Yogurt Fried Chicken

Chicken is great, fried chicken is greater and beer-battered yogurt fried chicken (you know where this is going) is the greatest! Go, make yourself this delectable chicken meal tonight. 

What you’ll need:

For the yogurt mixture

• 3 cups plain yogurt
• salt (as per taste)
• 1/2 tbsp freshly ground peppercorns
• 3 tsp cayenne pepper
• 10 chicken drumsticks

For the beer batter

• 1 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 tsp onion salt
• 3 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tbsp cayenne pepper 
• 2 tsp freshly ground peppercorns
• 1 bottle beer
• Vegetable oil

Instructions:

1. Mix yogurt, salt, ground peppercorns, and cayenne in a large bowl
2. Add in chicken, mix well and keep it aside for 4 hours
3. Mix flour, onion salt, garlic powder, cayenne, ground peppercorns in another large bowl 
4. Add beer to it and whisk until it’s a smooth batter
5. Heat oil in a skillet and fry the yogurt-covered chicken in it
6. Fry in batches until they turn golden brown
7. Serve 

5. Cauliflower Cheddar Beer Soup

This soup recipe is so great that all the other soups are ashamed of being addressed as soups. This soup has cauliflower (healthy), cheddar (cheesy) and beer (godly)! 

What you’ll need:

• 1 head cauliflower (diced)
• 6 strips diced bacon
• 1 small diced onion
• 2 diced carrots
• 1 small jalapeño (diced and seeds removed)
• 2 bottles light beer
• 3 cup chicken stock
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tbsp mustard
• 240 ml grated cheddar cheese
• 2 tbsp cornstarch
• Olive oil

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees
2. Lay out the diced cauliflower onto a baking sheet and pour 1bsp olive oil on it
3. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper on it as per taste 
4. Bake for 10 minutes, flip the cauliflower, bake for 10 mins more
5. Once brown and soft, set aside
6. Add olive oil and diced bacon to a big soup pot 
7. Cook over medium heat until the bacon starts to brown. 
8. Add in onion, carrots and jalapeñ and continue cooking until the vegetables start to soften 
9. Add in beer, chicken stock, bay leaf, salt, roasted cauliflower and mustard to it
10. Cook for about 10 minutes until all vegetables have softened
11. Add mixture to a blender and make puree out of it
12. Add the pureed soup back to the pot and cook over low heat 
13. Add grated cheddar and 2 tbsp cornstarch to a bowl and mix gently
14. Add the mixture to the soup a handful at a time while stirring continuously 
15. Once the soup has a smooth texture, serve