A battered fish bun, a sundae and sangria: Yotam Ottolenghi’s seashore recipes | Meals

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I love British seashore traditions: consuming fish and chips, putting in place camp on a pebbly seashore, hanging up a striped windbreaker, leaping out and in of the cold water. I feel I really like them such a lot as a result of they’re so other from what I grew up doing at the Mediterranean coast: consuming chopped salad and if truth be told swimming within the water as a result of, neatly, it’s the Med. At the present time, I’ve the finest of each worlds: I will surprise at my youngsters leaping out and in of the freezing sea whilst I center of attention most commonly at the fish-chips-ice-cream-sundowner aspect of items.
Marmite fish sub with marie rose sauce (pictured most sensible)
This sandwich takes inspiration from each the Mexican Baja fish taco and the New Orleans po’ boy, however with the very British additions of Marmite and marie rose sauce.
Prep 10 min
Prepare dinner 30 min
Makes 4
300g hake fillet, or pollock or sustainable cod, skinned
Salt and black pepper
350ml vegetable oil
4 comfortable white hotdog buns, or torpedo rolls
For the cabbage salad
100g white cabbage, thinly shredded, preferably with a mandoline
1 pink chilli, stem discarded, the remaining minimize into skinny rounds, seeds and all
For the marie rose sauce
50g tomato ketchup
50g mayonnaise
20g English mustard
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp Tabasco
2 tsp brandy or vodka
10g dill leaves, kind of chopped
50g gherkins, finely chopped, plus 1 tsp gherkin brine for the cabbage salad
For the batter
1 tbsp Marmite
150ml glowing water
1 tbsp brandy or vodka
175g undeniable flour
100g coarse polenta
1 tsp baking powder
Lay out the fish on an oven tray, sprinkle calmly with a quarter-teaspoon of salt, then refrigerate for 20 mins.
In the meantime, put the cabbage and chilli in a medium bowl with an 8th of a teaspoon of salt and the gherkin brine. Use your fingers to combine the whole thing in combination, so the cabbage softens, then put aside.
Subsequent make the sauce. In a medium bowl, combine the primary six substances with part the dill and the entire gherkins, and put aside.
Now for the batter. In a big bowl, whisk the Marmite and glowing water, then upload the brandy, 125g flour, 50g polenta and the entire baking powder, and whisk till unfastened and porridge-like in texture. In a 2nd massive bowl, combine the remainder 50g each and every of flour and polenta.
Take the fish out of the refrigerator, dab it in every single place with kitchen towel to take away any moisture, then minimize into 2cm-wide slices.
In a big saucepan, warmth the oil on a medium-high warmth till it reaches 170C (or when a drop of batter sizzles straight away when dropped in). Toss the fish within the dry flour and polenta combine to coat, then drop part of it into the rainy batter and switch to coat calmly. Moderately drop the fish one piece at a time into the new oil and fry for 3 mins, turning as soon as midway. Switch to a tray coated with kitchen towel to empty, then pierce each and every piece of fish with a knife to let the steam get away: this may increasingly lend a hand it keep crisp. Repeat with the remainder fish and batter.
To serve, minimize open each and every bun alongside its duration, taking care to not minimize throughout. Generously unfold the insides with the sauce and most sensible with some fried fish. Stir the remainder dill into the cabbage salad, pile some on most sensible and serve.
Strawberry and mascarpone sundae

One of the most many joys of that is that it’s made with out an ice-cream system. The entire paintings is finished in a meals processor (and within the freezer and by way of time), making home made ice-cream one thing everybody can do. Each ice-creams will stay for a month, as will the sauce and banana crumb. As with every ice-cream, use the best-quality eggs you’ll.
Prep 20 min
Prepare dinner 70 min
Freeze 24 hr
Serves 8-10
For the mascarpone ice-cream
4 eggs
125g caster sugar
225g unmarried cream
225g mascarpone
25ml brandy or rum
60ml honey
For the strawberry ice-cream
150g caster sugar
450ml double cream
450g strawberries, hulled and halved
1 tsp floor cinnamon
2 tsp red-wine vinegar
For the strawberry sauce
200g strawberries, hulled and halved
100g caster sugar
50ml red-wine vinegar
For the banana chips
100g candy banana chips
25g unsalted butter, melted
⅛ tsp floor cinnamon
1 tsp caster sugar
For the mascarpone ice-cream, put the eggs and sugar in a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, and whisk on medium-high pace for 5 mins, till doubled in quantity, faded and fluffy. In the meantime, in a big bowl, whisk the cream, mascarpone, brandy and honey by way of hand for a minute, till somewhat moussey. Flip the mixer pace right down to the bottom atmosphere, then gently fold within the cream combination. Pour right into a container, duvet and freeze in a single day.
Now for the strawberry ice-cream. Put the sugar and 200ml cream in a medium saucepan. Whisk neatly, then set over a medium-high warmth and prepare dinner, stirring on occasion, for 4 mins, till the sugar dissolves and wisps of steam seem. In the meantime, put the entire last strawberry ice-cream substances, together with the remainder 250ml double cream, in a blender, pour within the sizzling cream combination, then go away to chill for 5 mins. Blitz for a minute, till very clean, then pour right into a container, duvet and freeze in a single day.
Put the entire substances for the strawberry sauce in a medium saucepan, and press the fruit with the again of a fork to burst it somewhat. Convey to a boil, then flip right down to a simmer and prepare dinner for 5 mins, till somewhat lowered and syrupy.
Set a small colander over a small bowl and line it with a blank tea towel. Pour the strawberry combine into the centre of the towel, then tie two of the corners in combination and gently weigh the contents down with a tin. Depart to chill, then relax in a single day.
Warmth the oven to 180C (160C fan)/350F/gasoline 4. In a meals processor, pulse the banana chips to a rough disintegrate. Tip into a big bowl with the melted butter, cinnamon, sugar and part a teaspoon of salt, and toss. Line an oven tray with baking paper and unfold the banana chip combination calmly on most sensible. Bake for 16-18 mins, till it turns a deep golden brown, then take away, go away to chill, tip into an hermetic container and seal.
As soon as the mascarpone ice-cream is frozen forged, running temporarily, pop it out of its container and directly to a board, and minimize into 5cm cubes. Put those in a meals processor and blitz for 3 or 4 mins, till the combination has melted somewhat and has the consistency of clean peanut butter. Go back to the container, duvet and freeze once more. Repeat with the strawberry ice-cream. After any other six to 8 hours, each ice-creams will likely be in a position.
To complete the strawberry sauce, discard the pulp and pour the strained liquid right into a small jug. To serve, scoop one ball of each and every ice-cream into small bowls or tumblers, pour over some sauce and sprinkle liberally with banana chip crumbs.
White sangria with elderflower, lemongrass and kiwi

It is a transportable and not-so-messy means of jazzing up glasses of wine or bubbles at the seashore. Simply pour the syrup right into a flask or outdated jam jar and take it with you, in a position to be crowned up together with your wine of selection.
Prep 5 min
Prepare dinner 5 min
Cool 40 min
Makes 4
2 lemongrass stalks, bashed and thinly sliced
1 tsp black peppercorns
1 lemon – zested to get 6 superb strips of peel, the fruit minimize into skinny rounds
100ml elderflower cordial
2 tbsp caster sugar
750ml dry white wine (ie, one same old bottle), comparable to albariño or sauvignon blanc
3 tbsp Cointreau (or different fruity liqueur comparable to Grand Marnier)
1 kiwi fruit, minimize into skinny rounds, pores and skin and all
Put the lemongrass, peppercorns, lemon peel, cordial, sugar and 100ml wine in a small saucepan and whisk with a fork to include. Convey to a boil on a medium-high warmth, then take off the warmth and put aside to infuse and funky totally – this may increasingly take about 40 mins.
Pour the syrup via a fine-mesh sieve and right into a jar or flask for which you might have a lid. Upload the Cointreau and seal. Both close up the syrup and take to the seashore to combine with extra wine, or experience straight away by way of doing the next.
Pour the syrup and last 650ml wine into a big glass jug, upload the lemon and kiwi rounds, most sensible with plenty of ice and serve very chilly.