BRITISH BEER BATTERED FISH AND CHIPS

BRITISH BEER BATTERED FISH AND CHIPS


 INGREDIENTS:
The Fish

  • Cod, haddock, pollock, whiting, catfish. Any ‘meaty’ thick filleted white fish is good. For this recipe, I have used frozen cod as fresh fish is extremely expensive!
  • 1 cup flour, seasoned with salt and pepper
  • Vegetable Oil for deep frying. (calculate amount according to the size of your pan)
  • Allow approximately 150 g (5 oz) fish per person.Try and get fish fillets about 2 cm or more in thickness

The Batter

  • 100 g or 1 cup All Purpose Flour
  • 1 1/2 Teaspoons baking powder
  • 7 Tablespoons Milk
  • 1/2 Tablespoon Olive oil
  • 1 Tablespoon water
  • Pinch of salt
  • 6 Tablespoons of fizzy lager or beer. (A light beer works best). You can use fizzy water instead of beer.

The Chips

  • Calculate roughly 2 medium sized potatoes per person, peeled and cut into finger thickness (about 2 cm thick) chips
  • King Edwards, Desiree, Maris Piper all good potatoes for chips

Other ingredients

  • Salt and Malt Brown Vinegar for serving.

Stuff You will need

  • A saucepan large enough to fill 1/3 deep with oil, or a deep fryer.
  • Kitchen paper
  • Baking tray
  • Newspaper and greaseproof paper cut into halves. Allow double layer of newspaper per portion.

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. If you are using frozen fish, defrost it. Turn oven on to 150C, 300F, Gas 2
  2. Heat up the oil in your fryer/pan until it reaches 180C / 350F.
  3. Check over your fish for any bones. If you have a thick part and thin part of the fish, cut the thin part off as we will cook this separately to avoid overcooking. (see shapes of fish in photo). Pat dry with kitchen paper.
  4. Mix your flour and salt and pepper well in a shallow dish and cover the fish with the flour and shaking off any loose flour.

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