Good for you, the seas and your pocket!
This is a great new recipe that we’ve put together as part of the Fish Fight Campaign that is encouraging us to eat a wider range of sustainable fish and trying to change EU policy regarding the practise of discarding large amounts of good fish. A big thanks to Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall for spearheading this fantastic cause!
Please, please join the campaign here.
Ingredients:
Fresh sprats, gutted & cleaned
Seasoned flour for dusting
Sunflower oil for deep-frying
Batter:
200g Self raising flour
Salt & Pepper to season
2 tsp Horseradish Sauce
Sparkling water to mix
Method:
- Mix the flour, salt & pepper and horseradish in a bowl.
- Whisk in enough sparkling water to bring the batter to a thick cream consistency.
- Dip each sprat first in the seasoned flour, then in the batter.
- Deep fry, turning if necessary to ensure an even crisp cooking.
- Serve with hand-made oven chip and Tartare Sauce.
Enjoy!
P.S. Did we ask you to sign up at www.FishFight.net?
This recipe looks good, I think I will try it next month. One concern though is I don’t have an electric deep fat fryer, is it still considered unsafe to deep fry in a pan?
By: Josiah on January 15, 2011
at 3:29 pm
We don’t have a fryer either, we used a saucepan no more than 1/3 full of oil. This tasted so much nicer than shallow frying previously…..
Do resist deep frying chips, oven baked potato wedges in olive oil is much healthier!
Enjoy…..
By: hencorner on January 15, 2011
at 3:48 pm