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Beer Battered Vegan Fish and Chips - if you're missing all the flavours of this British favourite look no further - crisp beer batter, salty 'fish' and oven baked chips | thecookandhim.com

Beer Battered Vegan Fish and Chips

Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 35 mins | Total: 50 mins | Quantity: 2 servings

Ingredients

Chips

  • 4 large white potatoes
  • 1 tblsp olive oil
  • 1/2 tsp dried rosemary
  • 4 sprigs fresh thyme – leaves only
  • 1 tsp cornflour
  • Salt and pepper

Fish

  • 4 slices firm packed tofu
  • 1-2 sheets nori
  • 1 tblsp plain flour
  • good pinch of salt
  • 2 pinches nutritional yeast (see note)
  • 1 tblsp cornflour
  • 1/2 cup FitBeer
  • 1-2 tblsp oil for shallow frying

Extra

  • Petit pois peas
  • Marinara sauce (perfect for chip dunking!)

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 210 Fan / 230 C / 450 F / Gas 8 and line a baking sheet with parchment or a silcon mat
  2. Scrub the potatoes if the skin is ok or peel them if too dirty.  Stir together with a drizzle of olive oil, the rosemary, thyme leaves, cornflour and a generous sprinkle of salt and pepper
  3. Tip onto the baking tray and cook for 35 minutes until crisp and golden outside but soft and fluffy inside (stir the chips half way through cooking)
  4. Tip onto the baking tray and cook for 35 minutes until crisp and golden outside but soft and fluffy inside (stir the chips half way through cooking)
  5. Cut the sheet of nori to fit flat across the top of one side of the tofu.  Repeat for each piece of tofu, pressing the nori down onto the tofu
  6. In a shallow tray or dish stir together the flour, salt and nutritional yeast then coat the nori covered tofu pieces on all sides
  7. Add the cornflour to the flour mixture and whisk in the beer to make a thick batter. 
  8. Heat a good drizzle of olive oil in a frying pan over a gentle heat.  Dip each nori piece into the batter, coating completely then place into the frying pan
  9. Give your hands a wash then sizzle each piece of tofu for around 5 minutes until golden and crisp then carefully flip over and repeat on the other side
  10. Serve with the crispy chips, warmed marinara sauce (or just ketchup!) and petit pois.
  11. Dig in!

Notes

  • The nutritional yeast isn't essential but it does add a rounded flavour!  If you don't have it or can't get hold of it easily don't let it put you off making this amazing comfort food!

Recipe by The Cook & Him at https://thecookandhim.com/recipes/beer-battered-vegan-fish-and-chips/