Crabbie’s Battered Fish & Chips
Ingredients
For the fish
- 10 oz cod fillets
- 10 fl oz Crabbie’s Original Alcoholic Ginger Beer
- 2 cup flour
- 1/16 cup baking powder
- 2 lbs chipping potatoes, cut into chips
For the tartar sauce
- 6.5 fl oz mayonnaise
- 2 shallots
- 1/16 cup capers
- 1/16 cup cornichons
- 1 lime
- 5 fl oz Crabbie’s Original Alcoholic Ginger Beer
Method
- Preheat the fryer to 140c, blanch the chips for 10 mins set aside
- For the tartar sauce, reduce the Crabbie’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer by 2/3 set aside to cool, place the mayo,capers, cornichons, shallots, reduced Crabbie’s and the juice of lime in a food processor. Pulse 3 times for 10 seconds a time set aside
- Put the fryer up to 190c
- For the batter put the flour in a bowl, start to add the Crabbie’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer while whisking the mix until it is thick enough to coat a spoon. Last minute whisk in the baking power to make a lighter batter
- Coat the cod in the batter then slowly put into the fryer for 4 minutes, as soon as the fish comes out put the chips down again