Thursday 28 June 2012

Fish N Chips

We are on a small Island in the Atlantic and its a dam shame that you cant get "proper" Fish N Chips....... I have experienced it more so in the west but have been disappointed as much. combination of fish not fresh, dodgy THINK batter, crap tartare sauce and what about chips (mainly frozen).....
Here's my take on it

Ingredients:
Fresh piece of fish (Hake,Cod or any white fish)
For the Batter:
Self Raising flour,
Sparkling water,
Salt,
Vinegar, 
Lemon zest

Combine flour and salt in bowl, add sparkling water to flour mix until smooth consistency (ie coats back of spoon) Add dash of vinegar and zest of 1 lemon set aside dip the fish in batter and cook in clean oil at 160c

Tartare
1 Medium White onion Diced
200g Capers
200g Geurkins... Diced
500g Mayonnaise
4 Hard boiled Egg (optional)
1tbsp Dijon Mustard
1 Lemon juice

Combine all ingredients in a bowl and correct seasoning

Chips
Its all about the variety of potato and Maris Pipers are the only ones!!!!
Cut the chips nice and chunky making sure there are all relatively the same size...
wash the starch off, Steam or blanch in hot water for 5-8 mins, remove and let cool down and dry them off
Heat fryer to 140c and blanch the chips in the oil without colour for 5 mins or until the chip is tender....
Increase the fryer up to 180c and cook chips until nicely golden, remove and season with sea salt immediately

By combining all of the above it should be a more than decent fish and chips!!!!


2 comments:

  1. Sounds mouth watering and the vinegar in the batter is a new one on me ;-)
    Mentioned you on my blog to send some readers your way.

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  2. Hi found your blog through Ruth.
    Live in Galway myself so looking forward to your reviews.

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