Best Fish & chips

Best Fish & Chips

Not Only is this Best Fish & Chip recipe delicious, it’s an easy recipe for New England’s favorite dish fish and chips. You don’t have to be from New England for this recipe to become one of your favorites too!

I was always on the look out for a fish and chip recipe like the one we used to get at the local tavern where we lived, in up state New York.

Well friends, I think I found it. Not only is it quick and simple, the batter is prefect. It might just be better than the one I remember in my youth, in up state New York.

In my old recipes I used a non alcoholic beer batter, in this recipe using milk, the crust was light and crispy, not doughy as  the beer batter, what really got me excited

the crust stayed on the fish!!!

A few tips To get the Best Fish  & Chips

When making the Best Fish & chips i use  vegetable oil and be sure the oil is at the right temperature before dropping in the fish. If the oil is not hot enough, you end up with a soggy crust.If the oil is too hot, you end up with a burnt crust and under cooked fish. I added  cayenne pepper for a subtle kick, if you want more of a kick add 1 tablespoon of Tabasco sauce to the batter, it will watch up your taste buds.

The tartar sauce recipe comes together quickly. to me it taste better if  it’s refrigerated for a few hours. you can make it the night before.

I made fish sandwiches, with fish I had left over, spread the tartar sauce on a bricole bun, layered it with the fish, topped it with coleslaw

and let me tell you it was delicious, as good as the day before…….ENJOY!!!

Ingredients

  1. 1 quart frying oil
  2. 4 russets potatoes
  3. 11/2 Lbs. Cod
  4. 1 cup flour
  5. 1 teas. baking power
  6. 1 cup milk
  7. 1 teas. cayenne pepper

Salt and pepper to taste

Instruction

1.Peel and cut potatoes into sticks place in ice water

2.Heat oil to 350 degrees

3.Add baking powder and cayenne pepper to flour

4.Whisk egg and milk together

5.Add  flour mixture slowly

6.Fry potatoes in hot oil until golden drain on paper towels Salt to taste

7.Salt and pepper fish

8.Dip cod fillet in batter fry until golden

9.Return  potatoes to oil to crisp

Serve with tartar sauce and lemon wedges …….Enjoy!!!!

Tartar sauce

1 cup mayonnaise

2 Tablespoon chopped sweet pickle

1 Tablespoon yellow mustard

1/3 cup lemon juice

salt and pepper

Instructions

mix all ingredients

Serve with fish and chips ……………ENJOY!!!!