Battered haddock

By: Mark Hix From: Market Kitchen

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Prep time:
25 min, plus 2 hrs fermenting for the batter
Cook time:
30 min
Serves:
4

Forget fish and chips: Mark Hix includes the potato in the batter in his crisp haddock parcels

Ingredients

For the yeast batter

  • 200 g self-raising flour
  • 250 ml beer
  • 1 pinches cayenne pepper

For the haddock

  • 2 large King Edwardbaking potatoes
  • 150 g haddock fillets, skinned with any bones removed
  • flour, for dusting
  • vegetable or corn oil, for deep-frying
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Method

1. For the yeast batter: in a small bowl whisk together the flour with enough beer to get a coating consistency. Season with a pinch of cayenne pepper. Cover and leave at room temperature for 1 hour 30 minutes - 2 hours, until it begins to ferment. If the batter seems too thick, add a little more beer.

2. For the haddock: boil the potatoes in their skins in salted water for 25 minutes, or until tender. Leave to cool.

3. Remove the skins from the potatoes and slice them into sixteen 1cm discs.

4. Cut the haddock into pieces big enough to fit on top of 8 of the potato slices, season and sandwich them with another slice of potato, pressing firmly.

5. Heat the oil in a deep-fat fryer or heavy-bottomed pan (half full) to 160C.

6. Season the potato sandwiches and lightly flour them. Dip in yeast batter, allowing excess to drip off. Deep-fry for about 4-5 minutes, until golden. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper.


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Yum, didn't do the potato sandwiches but made twice cooked chips instead. Mushy peas were delicious, used "stock pots" as a cheat.
I only left the batter to ferment for 20-30 minutes and it was really good, so light.

NickM15416 NickM15416  Posted 13 Nov 2009 8:28 PM