Deep frying is cooking food by submerging the whole food item in hot oil or fat, originating in Africa. See also frying and deep fat fryer.
Some deep fried food:
Black Pudding - (AKA Blood Pudding) is delicacy popular in the North of England and Scotland. Individual small black puddings are battered and deep fried, mostly served with chips and sold in fish and chip shops as a take-away.
Deep fried Mars Bars - a delicacy of the North of England and Scotland. These are a popular candy (US) bar that has been dipped in batter first.
Potato chipsPotato chips (or crisps in British and Irish usage) are a snack food. The potatoes are cut into very thin slices and deep fried until crisp and then cooled and packaged for sale. The simplest chips are just fried and salted, but a wide variety of seasonin (crisps in British English) - thin slices of potato.
Red puddingRed pudding is a food commonly served at chip shops in Scotland as an alternative to fish (see Fish and chips). Naturally the pudding is coloured red inside. It consists of spicy pork meat and fat that is formed into the shape of a large sausage of roughl - a delicacy especially in FifeThis article is about the area in Scotland. For other uses, see Fife (disambiguation). Fife is a unitary council region of Scotland situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth. It was originally one of the Pictish kingdoms and is still known, Scotland. Individual puddings are battered and deep-fried, mostly served with chips and sold in fish and chip shops as a take-away.
Scotch eggA Scotch egg is a snack food of Scottish origin consisting of a hard-boiled egg, removed from its shell, wrapped in a sausage meat mixture, coated in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. It is eaten cold, typically with salad and pickles. Large-scale caterers manus
TempuraJapanese cuisine Tempura ( Japanese , ) refers to classic Japanese deep fried batter-dipped seafood and vegetables. The batter is made of ice cold water, flour, and egg yolks. Small dry bite-sized pieces of food are dipped in flour, then in batter, and th - a Japanese technique consisting of a special batterBatter can have several meanings: In cooking, batter is a thick or thin mixture, usually made of a ground grain, a liquid, and a fat. Batters are used to make cakes, some breads, to coat meat or vegetables when frying, or to make pancakes or cookies. and oil
White pudding - a delicacy popular in Scotland and Ireland. Individual puddings are battered and deep-fried, mostly served with chips and sold in fish and chip shops as a take-away.
Deep frying is also a technique used to prepare bread pieces for canapés.