Seafood :Menu for the day (Part 2) ---Dinner

Dinner
Dinner was more like an experiment as I wanted to try cooking beer batter fried fish as I just bought frozen dory fish from NTUC Fairprice the other day. It comes cheap in a packet of 3 big fillets. As for the beer part, I used Carslberg which was the only type of beer I have at home.

The Good:
1) The fish tasted good when it is piping hot.
2) The taste of the paprika and cajun seasoning was strong as I liked.

The Bad:
1) There was totally no beer taste although I put in more than 1/2 a can.
2) I didn't really like the eggy taste of the batter although the egg is supposed to make the batter thicker.
3) The batter turned soft after leaving out for a while.

As a result, I shall not post the recipe at the moment until I find the perfect batter.
Below is the beer batter fried fish when it was just fished out from the hot oil.



As this was only a trial, I followed my mum's advice and took only 1 fillet to experiment with. I then made another dish with the remaining fillets. I made a paprika mayo fish, which is like my own invention. You may think it sounds weird but its really good & easy to make! Here's the recipe...

Paprika Mayo Dory

Ingredients:
2 fillets of any kind of white fish (I used dory fish)
3 heaping tsp of mayonnaise
Juice of 1/2 a lemon
1 tbsp of paprika
Salt & pepper to taste
2 tsp of dried basil leaves

Method:
1) Dry the fish fillets with kitchen towel to ensure that the end product will not be watery.

2) Preheat oven at 200 celsius

3) Mix mayonnaise and paprika together, adding lemon juice a little at a time. Mix until fairly smooth.

4) Sprinkle salt & pepper on the fish.

5) Using a spoon, spread the paprika mayo mixture onto the fish.

6) Sprinkle basil leaves on the fish and bake fish at 175 celsius for 10 mins. After 10 mins, increase temperature to 250 celsius and bake for another 10 mins. (Baking time may vary depending on different ovens. Just make sure that end product is a nice brown and not watery.)

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**Note that the paprika mayo sauce can be also used on prawns too! A really versatile sauce.
Here's a pic of the prawns that I've made before.