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Chish and fips (and mushrooms)

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for fish and chips (and mushrooms) by Hugh Wennerbom and Mary Ellen Hudson.

By Hugh Wennerbom & Mary Ellen Hudson
  • 15 mins preparation
  • 25 mins cooking
  • Serves 8
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Chish and fips (and mushrooms)
I like to serve fish with mushrooms, an approach pinched from Alain Senderens.

Ingredients

  • 3 yellow-fleshed potatoes, such as Nicola, Charlotte or pink-eye (about 150gm each), unpeeled
  • For deep-frying: vegetable oil
  • 1 snapper fillet (about 800gm), pin-boned, skin scored into 8 pieces
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 200 gm young Roman beans, tailed and halved widthways
  • 50 gm butter, coarsely chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 300 gm assorted mushrooms, such as wood-ear, chestnut and enoki, trimmed
  • 1 tsp white wine vinegar
  • 80 ml white wine

Method

Main
  • 1
    Scrub potatoes and place in a saucepan with enough cold water to cover. Bring to the boil, cook until parboiled (6-8 minutes). Drain, then, when cool enough to handle, cut into quarters and squash with your hand, set aside.
  • 2
    Preheat vegetable oil in a deep-sided saucepan or deep-fryer to 180C. Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium high heat. Brush snapper with olive oil, season to taste and cook, skin-side down, pressing lightly, until cooked most of the way through (4-8 minutes), then carefully turn and cook until just cooked through (1-2 minutes). Keep warm.
  • 3
    Meanwhile, deep-fry potatoes in vegetable oil until golden and crisp (5 minutes), drain on absorbent paper, set aside and keep warm.
  • 4
    Meanwhile, blanch beans (3 minutes), drain, set aside, keep warm.
  • 5
    Heat a separate frying pan over high heat, add butter and garlic, and when foaming add mushrooms and stir occasionally until tender (1-2 minutes). Deglaze with white wine vinegar, then wine, and cook until reduced(2-4 minutes). Serve fish immediately with Roman beans, potatoes and mushrooms.

Notes

Drink Suggestion: The cherry fruit and powdery tannins of a young sangiovese. Drink suggestion by Max Allen

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