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Deep frying

Deep frying is cooking food by submerging the whole food item in hot oil or fat. See also frying.

Some deep fried food:

• Battered Black Pudding - (aka. Blood Pudding) is another delicacy of the North of England and Scotland, especially Glasgow, Scotland. Individual (small) black puddings are battered and deep fried. Served with chips. Sold in Fish & Chip Shops as a take-away.
• Chicken fried steak
• Chicken wings
• Doughnut - a deep fried piece of dough or batter
• Fish and chips
• French fries (or Chip in British English, or pomme frite in various European countries) - deep fried potato
• Fried chicken
• Fried shrimp
• Mars Bars - a delicacy of the North of England and Scotland. These are a popular candy (US) bar that has been dipped in batter first.
• Potato chips (crisps in British English)
• Scotch eggs
• Tempura - a Japanese technique consisting of a special batter and oil

Deep frying is also a technique used to prepare bread pieces for canapés.