Beer battered fish and chips

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Chef Dan with Grant form Bay Road Brewery in Gosford

February 9, 2023

A PINCH OF SALT

Central Coast Newspapers has teamed up with celebrity Chef Daniel to bring some local food and dining joy to local readers and viewers weekly. We’ve called it A Pinch of Salt. The full video series will be made available to our subscribers and advertisers via Patreon.

Chef Daniel’s guest this week is Grant Buckham from Bay Rd Brewing in Gosford.

Grant is very passionate about making delicious craft beer and started the boutique brewery in 2018 with some of his friends. Check out his latest beer launching this week called, Space Rocket a brand new style of beer called a ‘Central Coast IPA’.

Chef Daniel wanted to use Bay Rd beer in a recipe and settled on Beer battered fish and chips. He even showed Grant how to make mayonnaise from scratch with a splash of, you guessed it, beer! Now that’s something different.

Ingredients:

  • Half a can of beer (your choice)
  • 1 cup of plain or self raising flour, salt and pepper to taste
  • Soft white fish such as Ling, Snapper, and Miradori, Barramundi or Bassa (We used Bassa today)
  • 2 clean skinned potatoes
  • Battered fish Instructions:
  1. Preheat oil to half fill a saucepan
  2. Fillet and debone fish, then cut into slices
  3. Pour beer into a metal bowl
  4. Add flour into beer and whisk to blend until a smooth batter with no lumps
  5. Dip fish in plain flour and then batter the mixture
  6. Place battered fish in hot oil and fry for 1 minute.
  7. Take out and rest on a paper towel

Chips instructions:

  1. Slice potatoes with a mandolin
  2. Slice them further again for French Fries as per the episode
  3. Deep fry in leftover oil for 1 minute
  4. Take out and rest on a paper towel

Mayo instructions:
Stick blend 2 eggs, one teaspoon of Dijon mustard, and 2 tablespoons of white vinegar then slowly pour
in 1 cup of vegetable oil. Add salt and beer to taste.

Tips:

Alcohol will evaporate in the cooking process so will be safe for children to eat. The heavier the batter the thicker it will be and the lighter the batter the thinner – so you can make it to your taste.
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