Crispy fish & chips with mushy peas

Crispy fish & chips with mushy peas

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Prep: 10 mins

Easy

Serves 2
Make this take-away classic in your kitchen, healthier than your local chippy and just as tasty

Nutrition and extra info

  • Freezable
  • Easily halved
  • Healthy

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal484
  • fat11g
  • saturates3g
  • carbs58g
  • sugars4g
  • fibre6g
  • protein42g
  • salt1.09g
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Ingredients

  • 400g baking potato
  • 2 tsp olive oil
    olive oil

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  • 2 slices white bread
  • 2 white fish fillets, such as haddock, hoki, pollock
  • 1 tbsp plain flour, seasoned
  • 1 egg, beaten
    Eggs

    Egg

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  • 140g frozen pea with mint
  • 2 tbsp crème fraîche

Method

  1. Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 4. Peel and chop the potatoes into thick chips, then coss with the olive oil and some salt. Arrange on a large non-stick baking tray and roast for 20 mins, turning halfway.

  2. Lightly toast the bread, then pulse briefly in a food processor for coarse breadcrumbs. Dust the fish in flour, shaking off the excess, then dip into the egg, then breadcrumbs to coat thoroughly. Roast the fish with the chips for a further 20 mins, until both are golden.

  3. Just before the fish and chips are ready, boil the peas for 3-4 mins, then drain and mash. Stir in the crème fraiche and season.

  • Recipe Tip

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ifeyinwa00
20th Nov, 2018
2.05
The breadcrumbs didn't stick to the fish and everything took a lot longer in the oven. I ended up cooking the chips for an hour and the fish had to go under the grill to turn brown.
windog1
8th Jul, 2018
5.05
Love it as a healthy alternative, I used hake and made the 'chips' with sweet potato in their skin and seeded bread for the crumbs to up the fibre content.
scarymamma
19th Feb, 2013
Sorry BBC, but those are NOT mushy peas. Crushed peas or pea purée perhaps but not true mushy peas - which are made with dried, marrow fat peas.
ljhhuk
16th Mar, 2014
2.05
I agree, mushy peas have a distinctive flavour that goes very well with fish & chips & can only be made from marrowfat peas, soaked overnight & then boiled to a mush - delicious!!
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trinaz
6th Mar, 2015
5.05
I made this for me and a friend and we enjoyed it by candle light in the garden last night! I cooked the peas in the microwave and they turned out a bit mushy but that didn't matter because HC gave them to the dog! Great recipe i would defo make it a again! Just a revised update seeing its now 2015! This recipe is the rougest thing out- mushy peas went out yrs ago like yeh.
lauren_ricci
28th Jun, 2011
4.05
I really enjoyed this recipe. It was a little bit difficult to get the crumbs to stick on but it didn't matter because it tasted lovely and didn't leave me feeling fat and full which fish and chips usually does! I would recommend as a healthier alternative to fried fish.
tracypickle
16th Apr, 2011
5.05
Lovely recipe
melanieday
10th Mar, 2011
4.05
Quick and easy recipe and tasty too, not quite like chip shop fish n chips but a good healthy option. I used pollock and i was a good substitute for cod.
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Niamaria72
31st Jul, 2009
5.05
This is delicious. I used Sea Bass.
joanne.webb
28th Dec, 2007
3.05
A great healthy alternative to fish and chips from the chippy.
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