1. What are Fish and Chips?
2. Quick and Easy Amritsari Fish and Chips
3. How to make Amritsari Fish and Chips? 
4. Expert Tips 
5. Recipe Card  

What are Amritsari Fish and Chips ?

​​Fish and chips is an adventure of fried items in one dish with batter fried fish and fried potato chips. The basic varieties differ in the kind of chips they use. The British use potato chips that are thicker in size while the American version has steak fries or French fries. The batter for the fish usually contains baking soda or some sort of beer for carbonation to add the lightness to the fish.

Quick and Easy Amritsari Fish and Chips

This is a classic dish of crispy potato chips served with the Indian version of Amritsari fish instead of the regular beer battered fish. It's a dish that delights the palate with the sumptuous addition of the Amritsari fish instead of the usual, adding spicy Indian punch to it. The crispy brown Amritsari fish, with the potato chips and chaat masala on top, will surely be loved and lapped by all. 

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How to make Amritsari Fish and Chips ?

1) Start by cracking 1 egg in a bowl, add the flours with the ginger & garlic paste and whisk them together into a batter.

2) To the batter, add all the dry spices, with some lemon juice and end it with some fried fenugreek leaves. Mix them all together and add a little water to thin out the batter.

3) Cure the fish fillets with a little cornflour, salt and lemon and rub them together.

4) Add the fish into the batter, coat it completely and set it aside.

5) Chop the potatoes into fries and coat them with some cornstarch and red chilli powder.

6) Heat oil for frying in a stainless steel kadai. Fry your marinated fish fillets until dark brown, crispy and fully cooked.

7) Once the fish is done, fry the potatoes in the same oil and put them together with the fish in a basket. Sprinkle some chaat masala on top of the fish and eat it hot.

 

Expert Tips

1) The thinner the batter the crispier it would be.

2) The fish should be cured just when it's about to be fried, or it might dry out.

3) Chaat masala is an optional addition, you can also garnish with some fresh coriander leaves.

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Amritsari Fish and Chips

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Category

Appetisers

Servings

3

Prep Time

20 minutes

Cook Time

10 minutes

Calories

345

A dish that originated in Britain, consisting of batter fried fish served with a side of hand cut fries, gets a desi avatar. The batter is replaced with Amritsari fish rendering it super spicy and tangy and is served with a side of masala fries

Author:

Varun Arora

Ingredients

• Refined oil - For deep frying

• Egg - 1

• Besan - 1/4 cup

• Rice flour - Rice flour

• Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp

• Roasted cumin powder - 1 tbsp

• Meat masala - 1 tsp

• Black pepper - 1 tsp

• Red chilli powder - 1.5 tbsp

• Lemon juice - 1 tbsp

• Chaat masala - 2 tsp

• Kasoori methi - 1 tsp

• River sole fillet - 250 gms

• Corn flour - 2 tbsp

• Fresh lemon juice - 1/2 lemon

• Potatoes - 2

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Directions

1. Start making the batter by cracking open the egg in a bowl and adding the rice flour and besan to it.

2. Whisk till the flour is combined with the egg.

3. Add in the ginger garlic paste, cumin powder, meat masala, red chilli powder, salt, black pepper, kasoori methi and lemon juice.

4. Make a thick batter; if it gets too thick, add a few drops of water.

5. Add the river sole fish to the batter and let it marinate.

6. Meanwhile, take the potatoes, wash them but leave them unpeeled.

7. Cut them into fries and sprinkle them with corn flour and red chilli powder.

8. Deep fry the fish and the fries till crispy and crunchy and serve piping hot.

9. Sprinkle a bit of chaat masala on top as a final touch.

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