Fish, chips & mushy peas
Good fish and chips are becoming harder to find these days, but there are still some good boys out there making the real deal. However, if you want to make your own at home, here's the recipe I use. Unless you've got a really big fryer I'd say it's not really worth trying to make fish and chips at home for more than 4 people – otherwise it becomes a struggle. Other things to have on the table are some crunchy sweet pickled gherkins, some pickled onions (if your other half isn't around!) – and pickled chillies are good too. Then you want to douse it all with some cheap malt vinegar and nothing other than Heinz tomato ketchup.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 9 of 11 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 9 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Salmon | 100g cooked | 208 |
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Pea | 1/2 cup (72g) | 62 |
| Beer | 1/4 cup (60ml) for cooking | 43 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Sunflower Oil | not in our table | 0 |
| Peppermint | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- sunflower oil, for deep-frying
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 225 g white fish fillets, from
- , pinboned, ask your fishmonger
- 225 g flour, plus extra for dusting
- 285 ml beer, cold
- 3 heaped teaspoons baking powder
- 900 g potatoes, peeled and sliced into chips
- 1 knob butter
- 4 handfuls podded peas
- 1 small handful fresh mint, leaves picked and chopped
- 1 squeeze lemon juice
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper