🔨 To hit repeatedly ⚾ A baseball hitter 🥞 A liquid mix 🍤 To coat with mix

to batter

14 3.4

To cover food with a mix of flour and eggs before frying

verb
/ˈbætər/

: rebozar

You batter the bread.
battered and fried
beer-battered
battered fish

Examples

As I got older, my appreciation for both onions and everything battered and deep-fried grew.

Blog text (2)
And why must all chicken be battered in 6 inches of batter?

Blog text (21)
You forgot to batter the bread.

Honeymoon (2014)
So take a little cube of butter, batter it, and freeze it.

Blog text (30)
The fish is beer battered and the tartar sauce is made with fresh dill and fresh capers.
All day, I smelled slow-cooking green beans, bacon, and egg-battered pork chops.

Fiction book (2002)
She planned to batter the chicken before frying it to make it crispy.
The chef instructed the students on how to batter the fish properly before cooking.
He decided to batter the zucchini slices for a delicious appetizer.

Compounds

pancake batter

3 1.1

A mixture of flour, eggs, and milk that you pour to make pancakes

batter bread

8.1

A soft bread made from cornmeal with a wet, thick mixture you eat with a spoon

fritter batter

4.1

A thick mix of flour, water, and egg for coating foods like fish or vegetables before frying

puff batter

6.2

A smooth mixture of flour and eggs that rises into light hollow shells for sweet or savory fillings

How Coated

to enrobe

Specialized

1 7.4

to batter

14 3.4

to bread

8 6.9

to coat

105 2.8

to dust

54 2.5

Surface Forms

batter infinitive

battered past

battered past participle

battering present participle

batters third person singular

Etymology

To batter food, meaning to cover it with a cooking mix, comes from the cooking noun batter because you put the 'beaten' mix on the food before frying. That's why to batter chicken is to cover it in the mixture so the coating will stick and become crispy.