AGA Fish and Chips

AGA Fish and Chips

Ingredients

  • 4 haddock fillets
  • 225g (8 oz) of self-raising flour
  • 300ml of lager (organic if possible)
  • Salt and black pepper
  • Lemon wedges
  • 8 large, floury potatoes
  • 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil

Serves 4

Method

  1. Cut the potatoes into chips. Cover in a sprinkling of sunflower oil and place on a baking tray on the floor of the roasting oven for 30-40 minutes. Set aside a couple of spoonfuls of flour. Mix the rest of the flour, lager and salt and pepper together in a mixer.
  2. The batter should be thick and gloopy - if it feels too thin add some more flour. Dip the cod in the flour and then the batter. In a large frying pan, heat 1cm (1/2 in) of oil until it's smoking. Add the fish to the pan and cook for a few minutes until the batter turns golden.
  3. Carefully lift out the fish and place it on a baking sheet (hard-anodised if possible). Put the baking sheet on the grid shelf on the third set of runners in the baking oven. And cook for a further 10-15 minutes. Accompany with a good portion of mushy peas.

From 'The New AGA Cook' by Laura James published by Absolute Press.

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