Archive for the ‘Deep Fried Foods’ Category

Mexican cuisine and Mexican cooking offer many delicious deep fried recipes. Often, these fried foods are small appetizers, snacks, or finger foods that are perfect for a home fryer. Before buying a fryer for cooking Mexican recipes such as sopaipillas, chicharron, empanadas, or chalupas, read this list of the best electric deep fryers for Mexican cooking.

These small electric deep fryers are easy to use and clean. They heat up quickly and reach high temperatures for deep fried Mexican foods without being overly greasy or heavy. If you are going to cook starchy foods such as empanadas, you’ll want your frying oil to reach a temperature of 350 degrees Fahrenheit. At this temperature, each empanada should be fried for about 3 minutes. A normal sized Electric Deep Fryer like this Presto 05420 FryDaddy Electric Deep Fryer should be able to fry about 6 empanadas at once and still be able to maintain an even cooking temperature.

Some Mexican snacks like chicharrones, need to be fried at a very high temperature or they will not cook right.  Frying pork skins at an oil temperature that’s too low will result in tough cracklins that don’t puff up right and are soggy and greasy.  To get perfectly light and crunchy fried chicharron, you need to thoroughly dry your pork skins and fry them at a high temperature of 375 degrees Fahrenheit in your Electric Deep Fryer.  Since pork skins cook up quickly and are small, you can cook many batches one after another.  This means you’ll be opening and closing your electric fryer so a fryer that’s able to rapidly heat up and maintain a high cooking oil temperature is essential.  One of the best electric deep fryers for Mexican cooking in this case is the DeLonghi D895UX Cool Touch ROTO Electric Fryer which has a rotating basket to keep your oil and foods evenly heated.

I think these two electric deep fryers are the best choice for most Mexican cooking.  Instead of cooking in a stove top skillet and risk splattering oil everywhere, an Electric Deep Fryer is a good choice for safely deep frying Mexican foods and keeping your kitchen clean.   Not only that, some foods such as Mexican deep fried ice cream can only be cooked in a deep fryer since high even heat is required.  No matter how hard you try to deep fry ice cream in a skillet full of hot oil, you’ll never be able to do it correctly to get a crispy outer shell and maintain the cold temperature inside for the ice cream not to melt.

The best electric deep fryers for Mexican cooking are very inexpensive these days.  You can get a basic model deep fryer for under $30 at Amazon that will do a great job of cooking for 4 person servings.  These electric deep fryers are no fuss basic appliances and there’s no bells and whistles.  However, they get the job done and do it well, you will want to be careful though since these fryers can run hot and the exteriors of the deep fryers are not cool to the touch unlike more expensive deep fryers.

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Banana Chips

Here’s a fun food that you can easily fry at home in your Electric Deep Fryer. Banana chips are often sold for several dollars for a pound, but bananas are one of the most inexpensive fruits at the market at less than $0.50 a pound! Well imagine all the money you can save by frying your own banana chips. These are a delicious and healthy snack that are perfect on the go.

To make banana chips, just cut up a banana into thin slices and drop them individually into your fryer to avoid clumping. Since the banana slices are so thin, they should be done in just several minutes. For sweeter chips and a stronger banana flavor, use fully ripe bananas.

You can try flavoring your banana chips with honey, salt, cinnamon, or other spices. This simple recipe is perfect for little kids as they can help slice the bananas and enjoy the fruits of their labor in a few minutes. How delicious and fun!

Deep Fried Pizza

Deep fried pizza is a very popular dish, especially in Scotland where it originated.  This particular dish was first created in the 1970s and is often served with a side of potato wedges.  Any number of toppings is possible and in the south of Scotland, the deep fried pizza is smothered in a brown sauce and folded in half.  It’s also possible to get a deep fried pizza with salt and vinegar and brown sauce.

Pizza can be deep fried with or without batter depending on regional variation.  A battered pizza would obviously have a crunchier exterior.  Deep fried pizza is a perfect food to cook up in you home Electric Deep Fryer since it’s a small appetizer food that anybody can make.

Deep fried pizza is also a very popular dish in Italy.  In an Italian deep fried pizza, the toppings and sauce are sealed inside two layers of pizza dough, forming a pizza pie.  The most simple fried pizza is simply pizza dough topped with salt or sugar and deep fried.  This is known as pizzarella, avvoltolo, gnocco fritto, and other names.