Prep time
25 mins
Cooking Time
50 mins
Serves
4
Ingredients
For the seaweed battered Hake
- 750g MSC Cornish Hake, skin on
- 75g plain flour, extra for dusting the Hake goujons
- 75g cornflour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp dried seaweed
- 200ml Cornish beer
- 1 litre vegetable oil, for frying
For the charcoal flatbreads
- 250g plain flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 50g melted butter
- 100g yogurt or milk
- 100g warm water
- 1 tbp deactivated charcoal [optional]
- Pinch of sea salt
For the charred cucumber salsa
- 1 cucumber, sliced and chargrilled
- 2 jalapenos, charred and diced
- 2 limes, zest and juice
- 1 tbsp capers
- 1 tbsp cornichons, diced
- 1 clove of garlic, finely diced
- 2 tbsp parsley, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Pinch of seaweed salt
- For the slaw
- 1 carrot, grated
- ½ fennel bulb, grated
- 1 apple, grated
- 1 tbsp mayo
- Pinch of salt
To serve:
- Halved limes, chargrilled to boost the sweetness
Method
- Start by making and pressing your tacos in advance. Combine the flour, charcoal, salt and baking powder in a large bowl. Then mix in the melted butter to the flour to start forming a crumb and follow with the warm water and yogurt. Knead until smooth and divide into 12-16 equal sized balls. Roll out the flatbreads or flatten in a taco press. Cook for 2-3 mins on each side on a seasoned griddle and keep warm stacked under a tea towel.
- Season your MSC Cornish Hake with a generous sprinkle of seaweed salt and portion into small goujon strips. Then roll in plain flour to coat before battering.
- Whisk together your beer batter in a large bowl and add in seaweed flakes. The consistency should resemble yogurt or double cream. Preheat your oil to 180˚C.
- Whilst you are preparing your fish make a quick salsa by charring cucumber and jalapeno on the grill until blackened. Then finely dice and toss together whilst still warm in a bowl with parsley, garlic, capers, cornichons, lime juice and zest. Season to taste and allow to cool. Also make a simple fennel slaw and coat loosely with mayonnaise.
- Dip your Cornish Hake goujons into the seaweed beer batter and fry in small batches for 4-5 mins until the batter is golden brown with flecks of green seaweed. Remove from the oil and drain off excess oil on a sheet of kitchen roll. Season with seaweed salt whilst still warm and build your tacos.
- Start with a layer of slaw on the base and generous spoonful of spicy salsa, then your crispy MSC Cornish Hake and finish with lime juice.