Friday Weird Food: Deep-Fried Mars Bar
As a French man, I must admit that I have a lack in some foreign cooking culture. So I decided to create a Friday Weird Food Series. Every Friday, a new weird recipe 
In France I had heard about it, but I thought it was a joke, or an urban legend. But it’s not : the deep-fried Mars bar.
History
This strange Scottish recipe was invented in 1995 in the Haven Chip Bar in the town of Stonehaven.
And according to Wikipedia
“In a study published in The Lancet in December 2004, David Morrison (Greater Glasgow NHS Board, UK) and Mark Petticrew (MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit) surveyed around 300 Scottish fish and chip shops: 22% sold deep-fried Mars Bars, while an additional 17% of those surveyed had sold them in the past. Of the shops selling deep-fried Mars bars, three-quarters had only been selling them for the past 3 years. Average sales were 23 bars per week, although 10 outlets sold between 50 and 200 bars a week. The average price per bar was 60 pence, and the younger generation were the main purchasers–three-quarters were sold to children and 15% to adolescents.”
It is pretty simple to cook:
Ingredients
- 1 UK or Canadian Mars Bar or 1 US Milky Way Bar (same thing)
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup flour
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon oil or fat (use suet for authenticity)
Procedure
- Chill, but do not freeze, the Mars bar by leaving it in a fridge, or freezer, for a short while.
- Mix the milk, flour and egg in a bowl.
- Whisk together to create a creamy batter.
- Heat the oil.
- Coat the Mars bar completely in batter.
- Lower into hot oil and fry until batter is golden brown.
- Serve.
As simple as it is.
I promise I’ll try it one day, even though on the paper it appears very weird to me.
Have you ever tasted a deep-fried Mars bar?
Do you have any weird recipes on your cookbook ?
Photo via Flickr Nexus_icon.
This post is a part of our Friday Weird Recipes Series.
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