Real English Fish And Chips With Yorkshire Beer Batter

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 cod fish fillets or 4 haddock fillets
• 6 ounces plain flour
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 (8 fluid ounce) bottle british beer, small
• 1/2 lemon, juice of
• salt & pepper
• extra flour
• 3 lbs potatoes, peeled & chipped
• good quality cooking fat or oil

Recipe

• 1 heat fat up in a chip pan or automatic deep fat fryer - mine has a chip setting which is 190°c.
• 2 peel the potatoes and cut into chunky sized chips. rinse and dry thoroughly.
• 3 fry chips for about 3 minutes until soft but not coloured. drain and shake well and set to one side.
• 4 put some flour onto a plate. dredge the fish fillets in the flour thoroughly - this is very important, it stops the batter sliding off when fried! leave the fish fillets in the flour whilst you make the batter.
• 5 some people say you should make the batter at least one hour before - i have found little difference - so make it before if it is convenient or now!
• 6 put flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt and pepper into a large roomy bowl. add the beer gradually, stop when you have a thick coating type of batter. drink any beer that is left! whisk thoroughly until it is smooth and there are no lumps.add the lemon juice or a splash of malt vinegar if desired. mix thoroughly again.
• 7 have your plates, newspaper or whatever ready for eating!
• 8 adjust deep fat fryer to fish frying temperature of 160°c.
• 9 take one fillet of fish at a time and holding it by the tail or thin end (!) swirl it around the batter until well coated - plunge into hot fat immediately. as soon as it has crisped up and set, add your other fillets one at a time, taking out the first ones as they cook - about 6 to 10 minutes depending on the thickness. place onto a tray and keep warm in the oven.
• 10 turn up the heat setting to 190°c again and cook your chips until golden and crisp.
• 11 serve on plates or newspaper with salt & vinegar!
• 12 all you need now is a pint of warm beer and coronation street on the tv to set the scene!
• 13 this batter is great for small fish goujons, chicken goujons and also tempura vegetables too.