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HFG fish ‘n’ chips

  • Hands-on time: 30 mins
  • Time to make: 1 hr 10 mins, plus 30 mins chilling
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 4.1
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • Fish
  • 1 ¼ cups cornflakes
  • 3 tablespoons LSA
  • 1 lemon, grated zest
  • 1 teaspoon Cajun seasoning
  • 2 tablespoons fresh flat-leaf parsley
  • ¼ cup wholemeal flour
  • 2 egg whites, beaten
  • 4 x 130g snapper fillets
  • Chips
  • 500g orange kumara, cut in thick wedges
  • 2 courgettes, cut in sticks
  • 2 carrots, cut in sticks or 200g parsnips, cut in wedges
  • spray oil
  • sprinkling of smoked paprika
  • Tartare sauce
  • 2 tablespoons light mayonnaise (we used Best Foods)
  • 5 tablespoons low-fat plain yoghurt
  • 1 tablespoon capers, chopped
  • 1 gherkin, chopped
  • 2 teaspoons lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 tablespoon fresh tarragon, chopped
  • Citrus salad
  • 4 cups watercress
  • 4 radishes, sliced thinly
  • 1 red onion, sliced thinly
  • 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 orange, peeled, sliced
  • 1 lemon, juice
  • 2 tablespoons vinaigrette (made with 2 parts vinegar to 1 part olive oil)
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 To make crumbs, place cornflakes in a blender or processor and process until they become fine crumbs. Place in a shallow bowl and mix with LSA, lemon zest and Cajun seasoning. Stir in chopped parsley.

    2 Place wholemeal flour and egg whites in separate shallow dishes. Dip fish in flour to coat then in egg white and finally in crumbs. Chill for 30 minutes.

    3 While fish is chilling, prepare chips. Cook kumara wedges, courgettes and carrot sticks in batches in the microwave for 2 minutes on high. Transfer to a baking dish and spray with oil. Sprinkle with paprika.

    4 Mix tartare sauce ingredients together and chill. Mix salad ingredients together, season and chill.

    5 Once ready to cook, preheat oven to 190ºC. Place kumara, courgette and carrot in oven 15 minutes before fish. Place fish on a rack and spray with oil. Add to oven and cook for 20-25 minutes. Re-spray vegetables halfway through cooking.

    6 Serve fish with chips, salad and tartare sauce on the side. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

    What we did

    • Replaced white flour and breadcrumbs with wholemeal flour, LSA and corn flakes to coat fish (reduced carbohydrates and kilojoules; increased fibre)
    • Made chips with kumara (added fibre, vitamin C, folate, vitamin A and B vitamins)
    • Added courgettes and carrots to our chips (reduced carbohydrates and kilojoules; increased vitamin B3 and vitamin A)
    • Based our tartare sauce on a low-fat plain yoghurt rather than a full-fat mayonnaise (reduced saturated fat)
    • Added salad (increased health-promoting vegetables

    HFG tip

    You can chill the crumbed fish for up to 3 hours.

    4 comments on HFG fish ‘n’ chips

    1. 25314789 April 29, 2021 at 2:56 am #

      What is LSA?

      • Jen deMontalk May 6, 2021 at 1:50 pm #

        Hi there
        LSA is a mix of ground linseeds, sunflower seeds and almonds. It’s delicious and so good for you.

        Warm regards
        jenny, HFG editor

    2. Patricia Gowan February 20, 2022 at 10:01 pm #

      Can I buy LSA in uk or just make a mixture myself?

      • Jen deMontalk February 22, 2022 at 12:51 pm #

        Hi Patricia
        Thanks for your question. If you can’t source it in the UK just blend 3 parts linseeds, 2 parts sunflower seeds and 1 part almonds. It should be the texture of a very coarse wholemeal flour.

        Warm regards
        Jenny, HFG editor

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