Recipe mentioned in the article: “Man in the Kitchen: When You Cook for Your Kids, Who’s Feeding Who?”
Ken’s Salt and Pepper Fried Fish
Ingredients:
1-2 lbs. any white boneless fish
¼ cup of corn starch
Sea salt and ground pepper
2-3 tbsp vegetable oil
1 thinly sliced jalapeno and chopped green onion optional
Method:
- Chop the fish into 2 x 2 inch chunks
- Spread corn starch on a wide plate
- Mix a generous helping of salt and pepper into the starch
- Roll each chunk of fish in the mixture, coating thoroughly
- Heat oil to medium high in a wok or large stick-free pan
- Set each piece of fish in the oil and fry until golden brown on a side
- Turn carefully with tongs and brown the rest through and through
- If the kids can stand the heat, sauté the jalapeno and green onion into the mix at the end
- Sample one piece of the fish. It is done when the fish is crunch on the outside and flaky inside
Serve with white rice or stir-fried ramen noodles in soy sauce and call it Chinese food. Serve with macaroni and cheese and you’ve got fish sticks.
