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Salmon Fish Fingers baked in the Oven

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Make dinner easy with this Cheat’s Oven Baked Salmon Fish Fingers with Pea Puree + Sweet Potato Chips.  Fish and chips are always a kid’s favourite!

Fish fingers can be made more nutritious if you make your own, and even better, using salmon. You could use white fish in this recipe.

Cheat's Oven Baked Salmon Fish Fingers recipe | Kids Eat by Shanai

Salmon Fish Fingers baked in the Oven

My kid’s go to menu item when we are eating out is salt & pepper squid, so funny when we bypass the kid’s menu and order the squid.  Makes me much happier than them choosing nuggets.  Anyway, I think because of this we rarely have homemade fish and chips for dinner, I haven’t really tried to compete with eating out.  I was inspired after I saw Jamie Oliver’s recipe for Jumbo Fish Fingers, made with salmon.  Georgia and I both love salmon, Samurai loves eating the crispy skin, so thought this could become a family favourite.  Even though Samurai didn’t love the fish fingers, he still ate them and said this was the best dinner ever!  Oh he had cucumber instead of the pea puree and Georgia had frozen peas instead of the pea puree, but we came close to a complete win, I guess.

Cheat's Oven Baked Salmon Fish Fingers recipe | Kids Eat by Shanai

This cheat’s version was taken from RecipeTin’s Super Quick Chicken Dinner, instead of crumbing the usual way of flour, egg, breadcrumbs, mess.  She just spread some mayonnaise over the chicken and then the breadcrumbs and oven baked and voilà crumbed chicken done in minutes!  I thought I would try this same trick on my salmon and it worked perfectly!  I even cooked the fish and chips all on the same tray (if you have room)

Here you can see how simple it is;

Cheat's Oven Baked Salmon Fish Fingers recipe | Kids Eat by Shanai
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Cheat’s Oven Baked Salmon Fish Fingers with Pea Puree + Sweet Potato Chips

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Ingredients

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SALMON FISH FINGERS:

  • 1kg salmon, skin off
  • 1/4 cup mayonnaise
  • 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs

SWEET POTATO CHIPS:

  • 1–2 large sweet potatoes

PEA PUREE:

  • 500g frozen peas
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • squeeze of lemon juice
  • salt & pepper

Instructions

Preheat oven to 200°C.

Cut the salmon into roughly 3cm thick fish fingers.  Place onto lined baking tray.

Cut the sweet potato into 1cm thick chips and place onto baking tray.

Smother the top and sides of each fish finger in mayonnaise.  Sprinkle the breadcrumbs over the top and pat down with your fingers.

Bake in the oven for 15 minutes, then if needed crank the heat up to 220°C and turn on the grill to give the fish and chips a final crisp.  Remove once golden and cooked through.

PEA PUREE

Blanch the peas in boiling water for 3 minutes, drain then blitz in a food processor along with the lemon juice and butter until smooth.  Season well with salt and pepper.

Notes

This would also work with white fish.

 
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