FISH FINGERS & MUSHY PEAS RECIPE - SORTED

# A Simple Midweek Meal: Homemade Fish Fingers with a Red Pepper Twist, Chips, and Mushy Peas

In this video, Jamie and his little cousin Ollie are whipping up a delicious midweek meal that’s both nutritious and kid-friendly. Ollie is worried he’s not eating enough good stuff in his diet, so Jamie is showing him how to make homemade fish fingers with a red pepper twist, served with some tasty chips and mushy peas. Let’s dive into the step-by-step process they used to create this wholesome meal.

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## Making Homemade Chips (or Potato Wedges)

Jamie starts by discussing the importance of keeping meals nutritionally good, even when making something as simple as chips. He opts for potato wedges with the skin on, which are already washed and ready to go. “Keep it nutritionally good,” Jamie says, encouraging Ollie to cut the potatoes into wedges.

They toss the potato wedges in a little oil and flavor them with dried herbs like mixed herbs, thyme, rosemary, a sprinkle of salt, and pepper. The result is chips that are just as crispy as store-bought ones but healthier because you control what goes into them. “It’s cheaper and you can put whatever flavorings and herbs you like on them,” Jamie adds.

The potatoes go into the oven at 180°C for about 40 minutes, giving them a good head start while they focus on making the fish fingers.

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## Preparing the Fish Fingers with a Red Pepper Twist

Jamie explains that he’s using River Cobbler fish, a cost-effective white fish that’s half the price of cod but has a similar texture. He cuts the fish into big chunky pieces and prepares the coating by mixing flour, red pepper puree, and breadcrumbs. “Rather than flour, egg, and breadcrumb, we’re doing flour, red pepper puree, and breadcrumb,” Jamie says, emphasizing how this twist adds flavor without Ollie even realizing there are vegetables involved.

Jamie encourages Ollie to coat the fish fingers in the mixture, explaining that this method skips the egg but still creates a crispy coating. “It’s easy isn’t it, Ollie?” he asks as they dip the fish into the flour, then the red pepper puree and breadcrumbs.

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## Cooking the Fish Fingers

While the fish fingers are being prepped, Jamie brings water to the boil for cooking. He mentions that the potatoes have had a 20-minute head start in the oven, so the fish can go in next. The fish fingers cook in the boiling water for about 15 minutes, while the mushy peas are prepared.

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## Preparing Mushy Peas

Jamie drains the cooked peas and shows Ollie how to turn them into mushy peas using a masher or fork. He adds a little milk and a knob of butter to make them smooth and creamy. “It doesn’t have to be a puree; you want to kind of smash and smush them up,” Jamie says, ensuring the texture is just right.

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## Assembling and Serving the Meal

Once everything is cooked, Jamie assembles the meal by placing the fish fingers on a plate alongside the golden potato wedges and a generous helping of mushy peas. Ollie is eager to dig in, exclaiming, “We want our food! We want our food!” The finished dish looks like something you’d find at a restaurant, but it’s made entirely from scratch with simple ingredients.

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## Conclusion

Jamie and Ollie wrap up the video by encouraging viewers to share their own ideas for kid-friendly meals. They bid farewell with a cheerful “Bye bye” as they clean up after enjoying their delicious meal.

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This recipe is not only easy to follow but also packed with healthy ingredients that kids will love. By controlling what goes into the food, you can ensure your family gets all the nutrients they need while keeping mealtimes fun and tasty.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is my little cousin olle and he's worried that he's not eating enough good stuff in his diet so we're going to show you some really simple midweek meals this is our fish finger recipe we're going to make our very own homemade fish fingers with our twist the red pepper and serve it with some chips and mushy peas okay so we'll start with the chips obviously potato okay keep it nutritionally good we the skin on they're already washed if you can just cut them Jamie into some wedges I can do does Ollie like chips are these are your favorite Ollie yeah he loves these yeah so make some really simple homemade chips or wedges I suppose all we're going to do is throw the potatoes in there don't worry I don't like Ben either a little splash of oil and then we're going to flavorize with some dried herbs whatever you've got in the cupboard mixed herbs thyme rosem whatever you fancy and a little bit of salt and pepper so really it's just going to take the same amount of time that Oven Chips do he'd die because we're cutting up nice and small exactly the same time as Oven Chips but you're making them fresh which means they're cheaper and you can put whatever flavorings and herbs you like on them get your hands in kind of get them all mixed up and then into our oven so that's 180° C for a good Head Start they need about 40 minutes in total but get those in so we can concentrate on our fish fingers which is going to have our sweet red pepper twist nice I know this only say the bit he's really worried about cuz he's not a big fan of vegetables at the moment he won't even know the vegetables are in there I promise Jay if you can just cut that into rough Chun when we're going to make our fish fingers rather than flour egg and breadcrumb we're going to do flour red pepper puree and breadcrumb so this just goes nice and Rough and Ready in here it's getting a bit anxious does this take long or it's a very very quick dish very quick dish lots of nois them in it as we make our puree cover is there we go but that's all we need nice and simple remember at this point you're in control of how much seasoning you're putting in you control how much salt is going into your diet and the other two stages of our pan our flour and then the breadcrumbs this is just stale breadcrumbs or any sort of stale bread been blitzed up and this is our fish Dirt Cheap we ever used this before River cobbler River cobbler it's very very cheap it's kind of a meaty fleshy white fish about half the price of cod Sim sort of texture and it you know kids going to look at it and think that's a fish finger so that's exactly what we need so big chunky fish fingers like that and then if you can just pass it to the flower pepper and the breadcrumb to coat it well he say he's concerned that this isn't the way he usually pan how would he normally do it with the egg yeah have you've done this way before yeah no egg put the spoon down oh take just off how we going to do this fish into our flour yeah then into this one give a quick stir that's it that's it awesome then into our breadcrumbs that's good it's easy isn't it Ollie Y and while we're waiting to finish that we just need to bring some water up to the boil they're not ready yet are you happy that's yeah good our potatoes have had a good sort of 20-minute Head Start so the fish can go in there now as well nicely coated in our breadcrumbs so they need another 15 minutes and we've got a bowl of our frozen peas so literally just frozen peas they can still be frozen to use or you can defrost them but they go into our boiling water and they need about 3 minutes come up to the boil and bubble away and then we can show you how to make mushy peas now that our peas are cooked we can drain those off and all we need to do is make them mushy peas back in with a mushy machine mushy machine a little bit of milk and a KN of butter okay and that's going to go in there and make the whole thing nice and mushy doesn't have to be a puree you do want to kind of Smash and smush them up in the meantime I'll get all our other bits out and then we can have some lunch look at those fish fingers Ollie they are some wacky looking fish fingers all we need to do PI them up he really wants them now we're coming Ollie we're coming few of our potato wedges and if you put just a little dollar of our mush we want our food we want our food we want our food we want some food we want some food come on me want some f come on come on well there we go it's our version of child friendly fish fingers and mushy peas that Mom and Dad will love to sorted Yum Yum Yum eat in one that good he says he absolutely loves it see you want the big one he want you want more I think it's gone down well ol off to do the washing up after a fantastic meal but we would love to know what your ideas for kids meals are bye byethis is my little cousin olle and he's worried that he's not eating enough good stuff in his diet so we're going to show you some really simple midweek meals this is our fish finger recipe we're going to make our very own homemade fish fingers with our twist the red pepper and serve it with some chips and mushy peas okay so we'll start with the chips obviously potato okay keep it nutritionally good we the skin on they're already washed if you can just cut them Jamie into some wedges I can do does Ollie like chips are these are your favorite Ollie yeah he loves these yeah so make some really simple homemade chips or wedges I suppose all we're going to do is throw the potatoes in there don't worry I don't like Ben either a little splash of oil and then we're going to flavorize with some dried herbs whatever you've got in the cupboard mixed herbs thyme rosem whatever you fancy and a little bit of salt and pepper so really it's just going to take the same amount of time that Oven Chips do he'd die because we're cutting up nice and small exactly the same time as Oven Chips but you're making them fresh which means they're cheaper and you can put whatever flavorings and herbs you like on them get your hands in kind of get them all mixed up and then into our oven so that's 180° C for a good Head Start they need about 40 minutes in total but get those in so we can concentrate on our fish fingers which is going to have our sweet red pepper twist nice I know this only say the bit he's really worried about cuz he's not a big fan of vegetables at the moment he won't even know the vegetables are in there I promise Jay if you can just cut that into rough Chun when we're going to make our fish fingers rather than flour egg and breadcrumb we're going to do flour red pepper puree and breadcrumb so this just goes nice and Rough and Ready in here it's getting a bit anxious does this take long or it's a very very quick dish very quick dish lots of nois them in it as we make our puree cover is there we go but that's all we need nice and simple remember at this point you're in control of how much seasoning you're putting in you control how much salt is going into your diet and the other two stages of our pan our flour and then the breadcrumbs this is just stale breadcrumbs or any sort of stale bread been blitzed up and this is our fish Dirt Cheap we ever used this before River cobbler River cobbler it's very very cheap it's kind of a meaty fleshy white fish about half the price of cod Sim sort of texture and it you know kids going to look at it and think that's a fish finger so that's exactly what we need so big chunky fish fingers like that and then if you can just pass it to the flower pepper and the breadcrumb to coat it well he say he's concerned that this isn't the way he usually pan how would he normally do it with the egg yeah have you've done this way before yeah no egg put the spoon down oh take just off how we going to do this fish into our flour yeah then into this one give a quick stir that's it that's it awesome then into our breadcrumbs that's good it's easy isn't it Ollie Y and while we're waiting to finish that we just need to bring some water up to the boil they're not ready yet are you happy that's yeah good our potatoes have had a good sort of 20-minute Head Start so the fish can go in there now as well nicely coated in our breadcrumbs so they need another 15 minutes and we've got a bowl of our frozen peas so literally just frozen peas they can still be frozen to use or you can defrost them but they go into our boiling water and they need about 3 minutes come up to the boil and bubble away and then we can show you how to make mushy peas now that our peas are cooked we can drain those off and all we need to do is make them mushy peas back in with a mushy machine mushy machine a little bit of milk and a KN of butter okay and that's going to go in there and make the whole thing nice and mushy doesn't have to be a puree you do want to kind of Smash and smush them up in the meantime I'll get all our other bits out and then we can have some lunch look at those fish fingers Ollie they are some wacky looking fish fingers all we need to do PI them up he really wants them now we're coming Ollie we're coming few of our potato wedges and if you put just a little dollar of our mush we want our food we want our food we want our food we want some food we want some food come on me want some f come on come on well there we go it's our version of child friendly fish fingers and mushy peas that Mom and Dad will love to sorted Yum Yum Yum eat in one that good he says he absolutely loves it see you want the big one he want you want more I think it's gone down well ol off to do the washing up after a fantastic meal but we would love to know what your ideas for kids meals are bye bye\n"