"Meatless Monday" Recipe of the Week - Beer-Battered Portabella Strips with Spicy Dipping Sauce

This week's "Meatless Monday" Recipe of the Week is - Beer-Battered Portabella Strips with Spicy Dipping Sauce. This one is off the CooksRecipes website (https://www.cooksrecipes.com/index.html),  courtesy of the Mushroom Council. Delicious and beautiful Portabella Strips deep fried in a Beer Batter! Also included is a recipe for a Spicy Dipping Sauce. This is just one of many delicious recipes you can find at the Cooks site. Recipes to please all tastes, diets, and cuisines. Check it out today. Enjoy and Eat Healthy in 2018!


Beer-Battered Portabella Strips with Spicy Dipping Sauce

Recipe Ingredients:

3 cups beer or ale
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 quarts mayonnaise
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon lemon zest
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
24 Portabella mushrooms, slice about 3/8-inch thick (about 2.5 ounces each; stems reserved for other use)
Lemon zest, for garnish as needed

Cooking Directions:
1 - Whisk together beer and flour; let sit at least 2 hour
2 - To make sauce, mix mayonnaise, zest, lemon juice, cilantro and cayenne pepper until well combined; reserve.
3 - Dip Portabella strips into reserved beer batter.
4 - Deep fry until crisp and golden brown, about 3 minutes.
5 - Serve with 1/4 cup Spicy Sauce on the side. Garnish with lemon zest, if desired.
Makes 24 servings.

Recipe and photograph courtesy of the Mushroom Council.
https://www.cooksrecipes.com/mless/beer-battered_portabella_strips_with_spicy_dipping_sauce_recipe.html