Beer Battered Fish and Chips

Name: Beer Battered Fish and Chips
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 6 cod fillets (or haddock); 5 large potatoes; 1 egg white; 1 cup flour; 1/2 can beer, dark beer works great; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 pint vegetable oil; 1 pinch salt and pepper; to taste malt vinegar

Miles @tapster

A classic British recipe and one of the ones I love to make. Super fresh cod or haddock are the key, as well as lashings of salt and malt vinegar! 1/2 can of beer in this recipe is no mistake - the other half is for the chef ;)

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Ingredients

30 mins

4 servings

6cod fillets (or haddock)
5large potatoes
1egg white
1 cupflour
1/2 canbeer, dark beer works great
1 tspbaking powder
1 pintvegetable oil
1 pinchsalt and pepper
to tastemalt vinegar

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Steps

30 mins

1

Sieve the flour into a large bowl.
2

Crack the egg and separate out the yolk from the white.
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Briskly beat the egg white until aerated.
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Then add the baking powder, egg white and your 1/2 can of beer to the bowl of flour
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And genltly mix until it has a creamy texture then set to one side.
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Wash your potatoes and roughly cut into chips
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Bring the oil to a high heat and add the chips carefully. Cook for about 4 minutes then remove from the oil and lay on a paper towel.
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Next lay out your fish fillets and season well with salt and pepper.
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Now, gently dip your fish fillets into the batter mixture
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Then allow the excess batter to run off
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And gently lay the fish pieces into the hot oil.
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After about 4 minutes when the fish pieces are golden brown, gently remove them from the oil and lay on a paper towel.
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Put the chips back back in the hot oil for a minute or two if you need to, to crisp them up
14

For a bit of fun, serve the fish in a piece of newspaper and don't forget plenty of salt and malt vinegar!