The Fish and Chips Butty is a sandwich with french fries and sauce (chips butty) , here in the “fish and chips” variant with battered and fried cod and a pea and Greek yogurt sauce.
Typical of British cuisine, “fish and chips” features a battered white fish fillet (usually cod) (the Irish version includes beer in the batter) and fried, accompanied by thick, also fried potatoes.
It is usually served with a sprinkle of salt and malt vinegar and also accompanied by dishes like boiled peas reduced to a lumpy mash.
▶Until the 1980s, it was served in newspaper sheets, now replaced with kitchen paper, often decorated with typical newspaper writing to recreate the image of the past.
▶One of the few dishes not to have been rationed in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Affordable
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 1 sandwich
- Cooking methods: Frying
- Cuisine: English
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients
- 1 mini baguette
- 2 pieces cod
- to taste packaged potato chips
- 3/4 cup flour
- 7/8 cup water (or beer)
- to taste vegetable oil
- to taste salt
- 1 oz peas
- 1 jar Greek yogurt
- to taste salt
Steps
Boil the peas.
Blend them with the yogurt until creamy. Adjust salt.
Prepare the batter with the flour and salt, gradually adding the water (or beer).
Batter the cod then fry it in plenty of hot oil.
Fry the potato chips in the same oil (at a temperature of 374°F).
Assemble the sandwich with the sauce, cod, and fried potato chips. Add salt and serve.
Fish and chips is one of the symbols of British cuisine worldwide, this being the one tasted during our trip to Cornwall in December 2024-January 2025.
Fish and chips is one of the symbols of British cuisine worldwide, this being the one tasted during our trip to Cornwall in December 2024-January 2025.
