Beer and Bacon Battered Deep Fried Doritos
I work in an office and every single day I go out to lunch. More often than not I end up at Taco Bell. There really isn't any specific reason why I eat there so much, but that fact that it's crazy cheap and I can be in and out in about ten minutes probably plays a small part in it.
If you've been to Taco Bell any time within the past couple years you're probably familiar with their Meal Deal menu where for $2.49 you get either a Chicken Burrito, a Double Decker Taco, a Gordita Supreme or a Beefy 5-Layer Burrito plus a soda and a bag of Doritos. The weird thing about these deals is that the taco or burrito on its own along with a soda would already cost more than $2.49, so even if you don't want a bag of chips you might as well just order the meal and get one anyway.
That's my problem, I'm never in the mood for Doritos at lunch so I eat the rest of my food and then bring the bags of chips home where I toss them into my kitchen cabinet and sort of forget about them. Finally, after realizing that I had an entire cabinet full of snack size bags of Doritos I figured that it was finally time to do something with them, and that something involved a beer and bacon batter and my deep fryer!
For my beer and bacon batter I used the exact same recipe that I used when I made deep fried bacon and deep fried White Castle sliders, which pretty much just involves mixing equal parts flour and beer and then tossing in some diced bacon pieces. I was a little worried that the Doritos would lose their crunch after being deep fried, but they didn't seem to at all. The hot oil also caused the batter to expand around the chips a little bit, so they sort of ended up looking like little puff pastries.
There are some recipes where I know going in that they're going to turn out delicious, but this definitely wasn't one of them. In fact, I wasn't expecting too much from these deep fried Doritos at all, but they completely blew away my expectations. They tasted probably ten times better than I thought they would. I took a bite of one before I started taking pictures just to see how they were and before I knew it I'd finished five of them and had to stop myself from eating any more until I snapped a few photos first.
Seriously, is there a single food out there that isn't better after being deep fried? After realizing how great deep fried Doritos are I think I need to work on incorporating Doritos into a an actual batter. Imagine how great chicken strips or cheese curds would taste after being deep fried in a batter made out of crushed up Doritos!
I'd definitely like to hear how doritos work out as a batter...at an acquaintance's suggestion, I tried using crushed up Trader Joe's baked jalapeno cheese crunchies to batter fried chicken. It was delicious.
That sounds awesome! I'll have to pick some up and try that out next time I'm at Trader Joe's!
For when you think to yourself, "boy, I hate my arteries, CLOG THOSE SUCKERS UP!"
What kind of beer did you use? Awesome!
Thanks! For these I just used Miller High Life because I had a bunch of it in my refrigerator.
Because nothing says you hate your body more than beer and bacon-battered deep fried Doritos.
'Merica!
anything else? salt?
Nope, nothing else. After the chips and the bacon I didn't really think they needed any salt, but then again I'm not a huge fan of salt to begin with so you could always add some to the batter if you wanted.
My inevitable descent into morbid obesity begins here.
Congratulations... You are FAT.
these better be at the next state fair
These look good!
If I find this in my Xmas stocking I'm going to be a little upset.
PIG OUT BEFORE NEW YEARS!
Ok, does this sound delicious or disgusting??
DELICIOUS!!!! Are we even sure that these wouldn't actually be healthy for us!!
Package these up and send them our way - we want Chip Nirvana!!
Holy Moly Moly
sounds AMAZING! I am SO gonna make these! YUM!
Must try this soon…very soon…
WANT. NOW.
definitely going into my recipe book!
Heaven!
One bite away from a heart attack
This is amazingly insane.
Yum!
When your life isn't worth living anymore?
This is just FREAKIN GENIUS!
You trying to get me fat?
Looking for Mexican food inspiration, who thinks of these!!!
Oh my, my oh my! Wow!!! What an incredible idea you had! Just incredible! Taste sensation of the millennium!
Dude! You're the bomb! My boys love these.
I just purposely went across to the corner shop to buy some Doritos purely to make this! 😉
could you add cheese to these? if so, how?
Where is the recipe????
Sound awesome. Thanks, Nick. Btw. Think I can use bisquick in a pinch?
Yeah I'm sure that would work just fine.