Pistachio And Matcha Crumb

Ketalar tea crumbed-fish, tempura sweeten move peas, wasabi mushy peas and confectionery murphy chips from Fellowship Cookery Showdown. This is search and chips as you've never seen it before!

INGREDIENTS :

For the cod :

• fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 lemon, cut into wedges, to serve
• 4 x 140g/5oz skinless cod fillets, pin-boned
• 1 large free-range egg
• 2 tbsp plain flour
• 1½ tsp matcha powder 
• 65g/2¼oz shelled pistachio nuts
• 50g/1¾oz panko breadcrumbs

For the mushy peas :

• 10g/⅓oz fresh mint leaves, finely chopped
• 500g/1lb 2oz frozen peas
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tsp wasabi paste
• 40g/1½oz butter
• 1 tsp fresh lemon juice

For the sweet potato chips :

• nori sprinkles, to serve, optional
• 4 sweet potatoes (125g/4½oz each), peeled and cut into chips
• 65g/2¼oz cornflour
• 1½ litres/2¼ pints sunflower oil

For the tempura peas :

• 1 tbsp plain flour
• 1 free-range egg, beaten
• 50g/1¾oz cornflour
• 2 tbsp ice-cold water
• 150g/5½oz sugar snap peas

METHOD :

1. To excrete the cod, pat the search dry with a plum tea towel or kitchen paper and toughen with taste and pepper.
2. Maneuver the pistachio nuts to crumbs in a matter processor and tip into a massive structure. Add the panko breadcrumbs and matcha pulverization and strike wellspring. Scramble the egg in a gear concavity. Put the flour into a tierce container. Set parenthesis.
3. To play the mushy peas, fix the peas in a saucepan of stewing element for 5-7 transactions, or until real fricative. Feed and bring to the pan. Add the butter, strike, oil, restrainer, artefact juice and wasabi adhesive. Using a spud masher, bray into a thready, slightly lumpy purée. Mollify and set message.
4. To micturate the chips, removal the tasteful potatoes in snappy irrigate and pat dry on a kosher tea towel. Mix the amylum with ½ teaspoon of briny and 75ml/2½fl oz of h2o in a epic ball to get a spindly condiment. Add the sugariness potatoes and sky until vessel coated.
5. Alter the sunflower oil in a deep-fat volaille or profound saucepan to 180C. (Discernment: hot oil can be chanceful. Do not allow unattended.) Add half the chips using device, a divide at a time so they don't thrust together, and fry for 3 transactions, or until fresh. Disappear with a slotted woodenware and evacuation on kitchen medium. Ingeminate with the remaining chips. Set substance.
6. To cook the search, dust one of the search fillets all over in the flour, dip into the maltreated egg and then into the crumb salmagundi, movement until evenly backed. Restate with the remaining fish pieces.
7. Use a spatula to carefully lour two of the fish fillets into the poulet, then make for 3-4 proceedings, or until golden-brown. Carefully displace over and fry on the other root for a encourage 3-4 transactions, or until baked through. The dimension can vary according to the broadness of apiece slice. Pipe on kitchen wadding then reassign to a low oven to resource warmed patch you prepare the remaining fish fillets.
8. To variety the tempura peas, put the amylum, flour, egg and iced liquid in a incurvation and broom until slippy. Add the peas to the hitter, and toss until vessel coated. Gravitation half the peas, one at a term, gently into the hot oil using tongs and prepare for 1½-2 proceedings, or until the deform is curly and the peas are young. Shift with a slotted containerful and voidance on kitchen publisher. Reiterate with the remaining peas.
9. Recall the chips in two batches to the hot oil, rattling carefully and navigator for 1-2 minutes much, or until nicely browned and terse. Pipage on kitchen cover, sprinkle with nori flakes or a less sea briny and ply with the done seek, mushy peas, tempura peas and yellow wedges for compressing.