Name: Chish and fips (and mushrooms)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 8
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

Chish and fips (and mushrooms)

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

Serves 8

Prep

15M

Cook

25M

Total

40M

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.