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Fish and chips with potato crust

Savory recipes Spring Summer Fall Winter Under 30 minutes Easy Casserole Poêle
Prep time
15 minutes
Cooking time
10 minutes
Serves
4 people
Quick and easy fish & chips with delicious homemade tartar sauce!

Method

  1. Remove the skin from the cod and cut the steaks into two or three pieces (depending on their size).
  2. Pour the potato flakes onto a plate and season.
  3. In a large bowl, beat the eggs with a whisk.
  4. Dip the cod into the egg, drain, then roll in the potato flakes.
  5. Heat the peanut oil in a saucepan or frying pan to 160°C (320°F), then immerse the cod steaks.
  6. Once seared, drain and place them on some paper towel.
  7. Serve warm with baby spinach, lemon quarters and tartar sauce.
Tartar sauce
  1. Whisk the hard yolks, mustard, and lemon juice, then whisk in the olive oil. Add the choppeds egg whites, gherkins, spring onion, and chopped parsley.
  2. Season as needed.

Ingredients

  • 4 cod steaks of around 150 g (5.3 oz) each
  • 1 bag of potato flakes (around 125 g or 4.4 oz)
  • 4 egg whites
  • 1 L (4 and 1/4 cups) peanut oil
  • Salt, pepper
  • 100 g (3.5 oz) baby spinach leaves
  • 2 lemons
Tartar sauce
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs
  • 1 lemon (juiced)
  • 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
  • 25 cl (1 cup) olive oil
  • 2 tsp gherkins in vinegar (chopped)
  • 1 spring onion (chopped)
  • ¼ bunch of flat-leaf parsley (chopped)

Utensils

Saucepan

Saucepan

Why use a saucepan?

Sitram saucepans are versatile utensils fit for many preparations (soups, pasta, rice and sauces to name a few)

Fry pan

Fry pan

The benefits of cooking with a frying pan

With its round and shallow shape, this versatile utensil allows you to cook to your taste a variety of foods, from steaks to whole fish, burgers, meatballs, and all sorts of sauteed vegetables, pasta or cereals.

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