"crispy batter" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to a type of food that has been fried in a light, crispy batter, such as fried fish. For example, "The fried fish was cooked to perfection with a crispy batter that gave it a crunchy texture."
The resulting liquid is poured tableside into a shallow bowl that harbors a painstaking arrangement of skordalia interlopers: a long, sliced caper berry; an oval of diced beet; several crispy, batter-encased orbs of cod; and stacked petals of cod confit with an amazing tenderness and a generous sprinkling of dill.
RECOMMENDED DISHES -- Local smoked salmon press; crispy battered calamari; any of the brick oven tarts; cinnamon rubbed natural pork rack; white chocolate tiramisù; porterhouse steak; crême caramel.
These are essentially homemade corn dogs with darker, crispier batter, and they're possibly the most popular thing at the Festival, with over a dozen different places to find them in both standard and foot-long varieties.
But that also meant no tempura, so at all my favorite Japanese restaurants I'd peel away the crispy tempura batter and eat the vegetables just beneath, or I'd order sashimi instead of sushi, because rice was forbidden.
Softshell crab was small but crunchy, and shrimp tempura (good value at $6.95 with two large shrimp and three vegetable slices) came sizzling hot, embraced by a light, crispy rice batter.
I put my Banquet fried chicken ($4.96/box) in the microwave for 39 minutes and then let it cool for five minutes before feeding the crispy skin batter to my friends.
No other dish combines sweet and savory in such a beautiful ballet, controversially unites crispy fried batter with its fluffy, ironed cousin in incestuous-but-still-holy matrimony, or dares to walk the tightrope between breakfast, lunch, and dinner with such grace and flavor.
Most meats and vegetables taste great fried in the crispy cornmeal batter.
