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Ingredient

Batter

Batter is a mixture made with flour and sometimes water, milk, egg, sugar, salt, baking powder, or beer. Cooks bake, ferment, or steam batter and pair it with fish or onion.

  • May contain egg
  • May contain dairy
  • May contain milk
  • alcohol depends on the product

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Cooked most in
The Americas, Asia, Europe
Top country
France
Batter, prepared

Photo: Father.Jack from Coventry, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use batter

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Ferment
  • Steam

Made from

Preparing it

Many batters need vigorous beating or whisking. Some batters start with grains soaked in water and ground while wet. For frying, make the batter thick enough to cling without making it excessively heavy.

Cooking with it

Heating cooks the ingredients and sets the batter solid. Wheat-flour batter thickens after mixing as gluten develops. To limit thickening, mix with ice water or prepare the batter just before use.

Goes well with

Around the world

Where batter is cooked

3 dishes in the catalogue use batter. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list batter among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with batter

3 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Appam

    India, Sri Lanka

  • Monte Cristo sandwich

    United States

  • Waffle

    France

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include batter.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: batter in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Sometimes eggs (only when the optional ingredient is used)Sometimes milk (only when the optional ingredient is used)
Animal origin
Sometimes egg (only when the optional ingredient is used)Sometimes dairy (only when the optional ingredient is used)
Alcohol
Depends on the product (only when the optional ingredient is used)

Around the world

What batter is called

Names in 45 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Rebozado · Rebozada · Rebozar

  • French

    pâte

  • Italian

    pastella

  • Portuguese

    polme

  • German

    Bierteig · Weinteig · Ausbackteig · Backteig

  • Dutch

    beslag

  • Greek

    Κουρκούτι

  • Turkish

    Bulamaç

  • Russian

    кляр · панировочное тесто

  • Polish

    panierka z ciasta naleśnikowego

  • Arabic

    خفيق · مخفوق · معجونة

  • Persian

    خمیرابه · خمیر رقیق

Show all 45 languages

  • Albanian

    Rrahja (gatim)

  • Armenian

    հեղուկ խմոր

  • Bangla

    পিটালি

  • Basque

    Arrautzaztatze

  • Bavarian

    Bachdoag

  • Belarusian

    кляр

  • Bikol

    Galpong

  • Cantonese

    麵糊

  • Catalan

    pasta de farina

  • Chinese

    面糊 · 奶油面糊

  • Czech

    lité těsto

  • Filipino

    Galapong

  • Finnish

    taikina · lettutaikina · ohukaistaikina

  • Hebrew

    בלילה

  • Hungarian

    sörtészta · híg tészta · tésztaanyag · tészta

  • Indonesian

    adonan encer

  • Japanese

    生地 · バッター · バッター液

  • Javanese

    Adhonan kuwé

  • Kazakh

    Кляр

  • Korean

    반죽물

  • Macedonian

    течно тесто

  • Malay

    Tepung sadur · Adunan cair

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    røre

  • Pontic

    τρίμμαν

  • Serbian

    Смеса за поховање

  • Slovenian

    pivsko testo · pivovsko testo · testo za palačinke

  • Sundanese

    Adonan

  • Swedish

    smet

  • Tamil

    குழை மாவு

  • Thai

    แบตเตอร์ (การทำอาหาร)

  • Tumbuka

    mutimbi

  • Ukrainian

    кляр

  • Welsh

    Cytew

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q29493

Photos

Photo: Father.Jack from Coventry, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons