Preparation With Beer

We’ve rounded up our favorite recipes for preparation with beer. The red snapper in our fish tacos have a mild flour and egg batter, while our beer-battered onion rings are just a little sweet-spicy thanks to honey and paprika.

One of our favorite fried appetizers is an elegant dish of zucchini blossoms stuffed with anchovies and fried in a simple lager or seltzer batter. For a fruity pulled pork, braise the meat in lager, spices, and canned peaches.

For a rich brisket, cook the beef in a mixture of stout beer, bourbon, soy sauce, brown sugar, balsamic, and thyme. To make a chavela, mix a Mexican lager with tomato juice and hot sauce. It’s made with beer, tomato and citrus juices, hot sauce, and a shot of tequila.

Find all of these dishes and more in our collection of recipes for preparation with beer. Braised Brisket Burgers with Pimento Cheese Beer Cheese Soup Mussels with Pale Ale and Spicy Aïoli Triple Chocolate Beef & Bean Chili Spicy Michelada Spicy Michelada Beer-Braised Pork Belly Salad This chile-rubbed, beer-braised pork belly is cooked until tender and served atop arugula and pears. Get the method for Beer-Braised Pork Belly Salad » Flemish Beef and Beer Stew (Carbonnade) Unlike French beef stews made with wine, carbonnade—a Flemish stew—relies on the deep, dark flavor of Belgian abbey-style beer.

Get the method for Flemish Beef and Beer Stew » Beer-Battered Onion Rings A flavorful batter infused with honey, paprika, and lager beer is the secret to these crunchy onion rings. Get the method for Beer-Battered Onion Rings » Roasted Parsnip Salad with Hazelnuts, Blue Cheese, and Wheat Beer Vinaigrette Parsnips offer sweetness, while spicy hazelnuts and coarse pumpernickel crumbs add crunch to this modern salad.

Get the recipe for Roasted Parsnip Salad with Hazelnuts, Blue Cheese, and Wheat Beer Vinaigrette » Chavela (Mexican Beer with Tomato Juice) A classic version of a Mexican cerveza preparada (prepared beer), the chavela couldn’t be simpler: tomato juice, hot sauce, beer, lemon, and ice, with a salted rim. Michelada Bloody Mary Chef Rick Bayless suggested this recipe for a bloody mary made with beer, citrus, and tequila.

English Sticky Toffee Pudding Braised Rabbit with Mushrooms and Celery Root Wild rabbit, a favorite among hunters in Kansas, is braised in beer and chicken stock to make this autumnal dish. Light and airy, with a subtle squash savor, zucchini blossoms are wonderful to cook; they make a flavorful, delicate appetizer when stuffed with salty anchovies and fried.

Any cheese—Gruyere, blue, goat—can melt as evenly as American-style cheese, with this revelatory method from the cookbook Modernist Cuisine at Home , by Nathan Myhrvold and Maxime Bilet, the home-cooking follow-up to their six-volume Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking . Get the method for Colombiana Pitcher Cocktail (Refajo) » Beef Cheek and Stout Pie with Stilton Pastry “If making a pie, one should make it indulgent,” states chef Daniel Doherty of London and New York’s Duck & Waffle.

Get the recipe for Beef Cheek and Stout Pie with Stilton Pastry » Six-Onion Pizza Six-Onion Pizza Venison Sausage Braised in Beer With carrots, leeks, apples, and savoy cabbage, venison sausage takes on a rich, yeasty taste when braised in lager-style beer. Fish Tacos Adding beer to the batter helps the fish for these tacos fry up golden brown and lightly crispy.