Fingers of fish.Fish fingers are a childhood memory. The sort of thing you were allowed on a friday night if your parents were going out and you had to have dinner and be ready for bed before the babysitter came. They were best served with baked beans, maybe peas and perhaps some oven chips. The perfect rectangles of reconstituted, or apparently not, fish. Yum!
Well, fish fingers are still a treat in our house, but luckily now we know how to make them ourselves :
Trim some fillets of a a firm white fish - groper is particularly good - into fish finger shapes. Save the off cuts for fish cakes, this is a time when freezing the fish is just fine.
Mix some flour and polenta, about 1/4 cup of each should do it (although I think that sometimes less flour and more polenta would be better), and season with salt and pepper.
Rinse and dry the fish.
Coat the fingers of fish in the polenta mixture. You could double dip the fish fingers if you like by dipping the first dipped finger in beaten egg and then again in the polenta, this will give a thicker coating.
Spray a lined baking sheet with oil, lay out the fish fingers and spray again.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 200°C or until they look really good.
2 comments:
My kids love fish fingers. I usually steam them first and then cut them into fingers, then do the next process with dipping in the beaten eggs, then coat in breadcrumbs. I do like them cook them in the oven then fry them, really. Those fingers surely look good!
Arfi - that is a good idea to precook the fish - does the steaming result in a softer texture?
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