You can even wrap them in brown paper if you want!
Ingredients
- 2 pieces gurnard per person
- flour
- pepper and salt
Tartar Sauce:
- 2 shallots (finely chopped)
- 4 gherkins (finely chopped)
- 1 tblsp capers (roughly chopped)
- small bunch of tarragon (chopped)
- small bunch of chives (chopped)
- small bunch of parsley (chopped)
- 1 hard boiled egg (grated)
- 1 lemon
- rock salt
- homemade mayonnaise
Homemade Mayonnaise:
- two egg yolks
- mustard
- 300-400ml vegetable oil
- extra virgin olive oil
- lemon juice
Beer Batter:
- 250 g strong lour
- 200 g rice flour
- 50 g corn flour
- 20 g salt
- 20 fresh yeast
- 20 g sugar
- 625 ml beer
Method
Homemade Mayonnaise:
- Firstly to make the make the mayonnaise.
- Put the two egg yolks and mustard into a bowl and whisk together, gently pour in the vegetable oil whisking continually.
- The idea is to slowly pour the oil, while whisking continually. The mixture will emulsify, thicken and be yellow in colour.
- Taste to check seasoning, adjust to flavour
- Finish by whisking a little extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice into the mixture.
- Check seasoning and adjust, it may need a little more salt or some lemon juice.
Tartar Sauce:
- In a large bowl mix all the ingredients together, squeeze some lemon into the bowl and mix.
- Check seasoning and adjust if necessary.
Beer Batter:
- Mix all the ingredients whisk in the beer.
- Leave in a warm place for 1 hour.
- The batter is now ready to use.
Deep Fried Fish:
- Heat some oil in a deep fat fryer, take out the basket.
- Dust the fish in seasoned flour.
- Put the fish in to the beer batter and make sure that all the fish is covered in batter.
- Gently lay the fish into the heated oil one or two pieces at a time. Allow to cook for 5-6 minutes until golden.
- Remove with a tongs and drain on kitchen paper.
- Serve with chips and homemade tartar sauce.
