After watching the very first episode of Oliver's Twist starring Jamie Oliver I decided it was time to make fish and chips! You can also find his recipe on foodnetwork.
For the chips:
- 3 3/4 pints (2 liters) vegetable oil
- 2 pounds (950 grams) floury potatoes, like russets, peeled and cut into large chips
For the batter:
1 cup of plain flour
1 cup of your favorite beer!
2 egg whites, whipped to soft peaks
Salt
4 (9 ounce/250 gram) fillets haddock or cod, skin on, and pin boned
If you don't have a deep-fryer don't worry, just grab a pot and pour about two inches of oil in there. Heat the oil to 300 degrees F. After you're done setting that up, cut your potatoes into your preferable size for french fries or chips. You may blanch your potatoes if you like but I didn't and they turned out great.
Next you can measure out your ingredients for the batter. This time I used 1 cup of Miller beer. You can always a little more if you'd like.
Measure out 1 cup of plain flour. You may choose to season your flour at this point, which I highly recommend. Pour the cup of beer into the bowl of plain flour.
Afterwards separate your egg yolk from the whites. You may choose to add the yolks to the flour and beer just so you don't waste it.
As for the egg whites you need to whip them until you can place the bowl upside down without anything falling out. Now this requires muscle, I always get tired when a recipe calls for whipping egg whites.
Gently fold the egg whites into the batter mixture.
Dip your choice of fish into the batter
Now this part can get a little scary! Fry your chips and fish in oil for a couple minutes. Mine were done in about 3 minutes.
Drain your fish and chips on a paper towel before serving.
You can serve it with bread, butter, pickles, pickled eggs, ketchup or salsa. Yummy!
This recipe was remarkable. The fish was perfectly crispy, fluffy, light and delicious! Now that's what's cooking good looking!!!
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