Fish Friday!

Well, today in the Wonderful Land of Oz, it's Good Friday!
I'm not the biggest lover of Seafood... In fact the only seafood I eat is Calamari... So Good Friday for me is a bit of a fail in that area....
That said, i do love the Bread and Wine part of it ;)

Anyhow, today, i decided to make our own battered fish and salt & pepper squid.... And WOW, what a success it was. Mr Thermie's Brother come over this morning so i invited him to stay for lunch (boy, he was glad he did. He was actually willing to pay the $15 I told the boys they owed for lunch as a joke)

I even ate the fish. And that says ALOT.

So here is the recipe for the yummiest battered fish i have EVER had!

I used Fresh Basa Fillets from the local depot. 

Yields approx 12-15 cocktail size fish pieces.

Ingredients

3 Basa fillets, cut into 4-5 pieces each (i sliced down the middle and then halved the smallest side and cut the larger side into 3)
Batter
200g Plain Flour (plus extra to dip fish in)
1 teaspoon salt 
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
300ml COLD water 

1. Place Flour, Salt, Pepper and Water into thermie and mix for 14 seconds on speed 8
2. Place batter in a bowl and put in refrigerator for around 20 - 30 mins
3. Once batter chilled, coat the fish in flour and then dip in batter.
4. Fry fish to 3-5 mins in hot oil (we used a deep fryer... unhealthy i know, but soooo darn nice!)

It is honestly the best fish I've ever eaten! 
Since there was the tiniest little bit of batter left, I loaded it up with Cracked Black Pepper and Sea Salt and dipped three calamari rings in it. Just as an experiment.
Looked like a pineapple fritter when i was getting it out of the fryer (which makes me realise... i have 2 whole pineapples here.... might try them battered later!) Anyhow, i decided to not eat the calamari as it looked a bit too battery.... Hubby came up and picked one up and took a bite (i'm still cooking at this stage)
He gave me a piece to eat to see what i thought.
It was Freaking Awesome.
Even he gave it a 10. Which is a pretty big deal!

Guess how we are having the remaining squid tonight? :)

Hope you all have a fabulous Easter!