Vegan fish fingers - easy and incredibly delicious

30 Jan 2019

I finally cracked the recipe for vegan fish fingers! And it was much easier than I thought! I made sure the recipe is quick and hassle-free so you have more time enjoying these treat. The result is so yummy and bursting with comforting flavour, it will convince even non-vegans. This is the perfect plant-based alternative to fish sticks you buy in supermarkets. And if you use gluten-free bread crumbs then this recipe is also gluten-free!

You can get almost all ingredients in your supermarket. I got all of them from my large Sainsbury's, apart from the nutritional yeast, which you can either buy online (Amazon) or in your local health food shop.

This dish tastes best fried. I haven't baked it yet but I think it might dry out the dish cakes and the chickpea flour might not cook fully, which could make them taste bitter. Talking of which, don't try the raw batter with the chickpea flour in it, it will taste bitter. Chickpea flour (also called gram flour) must be fully cooked to be eaten.

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Vegan fish fingers - easy and incredibly delicious

I have to say I was surprised myself how amazing these tasted! You don't taste the tofu anymore. I only used it as a carried of flavour and because it has a high protein and iron content - even fried food should have some kind of nutritional balance ;-)

Don't they look just like fish fingers? You will love this vegan version. The shushi sheet infused oil will give them a light fish taste that's not overwhelming.

Dunk them into ketchup, vegan mayo or even into a tahini dressing. Talking of which, we have just launching our Kickstarter campaign to get our tahini dressings produced. If you enjoy my recipes you will love our new dressings. Please help us to get these produced by supporting us here:

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You can serve them with either chips or a delicious potato salad like this one: https://www.exceedinglyvegan.com/vegan-recipes/soups-starters/austrian-no-mayo-potato-salad

INGREDIENTS (10 - 12 vegan fish fingers):

Step 1 ingredients:

Plenty of cooking oil
Sushi sheets

Step 2 ingredients:

250g extra firm tofu
150g artichoke hearts in oil
Juice of 1/2 lemon

Step 3 ingredients:

80g chickpea flour
5 tbsp nutritional yeast
(2 tbsp olive oil)
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp garlic powder

Step 4 ingredients:

Breadcrumbs (e.g. gluten-free ones)

Optional ingredients:

Lemons
Peas
Ketchup
vegan Mayo
Potatoes salad (see recipe here)
Chips

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METHOD:

Step 1:

Pour cooking oil into a pan and add 1 pack of sushi noori sheets to infuse the oil. The longer you leave them in the better: e.g. you could soak them in the morning and then cook the vegan fish fingers in the evening for a more intense taste. Alternatively, if you don't have much time heat them up a bit for 5 minutes so they give up more flavour. Make sure the heat isn't too high because they burn easily.

Step 2:

Place ingredients of step 2 into a food processor until you get a semi smooth mixture.

Step 3:

Transfer the mixture into a large bowl and add all other ingredients from this step and mix. Make sure there are no chickpea flour lumps, otherwise the fish fingers might taste bitter.

Form fish finger shapes. Alternatively just form sausage shapes. Admittedly it was a bit of work to make rectangular shapes and when they were fried they lost their shape a bit anyway. So if you want to make your life easier, roll them into sausage shape, it won't make a difference in terms of taste. They will be quite soft at this stage, but don' worry they will firm up when fried.

Step 4:

Add breadcrumbs to a bowl and roll the vegan fish fingers in them until they are covered on all sides.

Take the sushi sheets out of the pan with cooking oil and heat up the pan. Fry the fish fingers in the pan until they are golden brown. Place on a kitchen towl to soak up the excess oil.

Optionally drizzle some lemon juice on top when serving the fish fingers. Have cooked peas, chips or potato salad and ketchup or vegan mayo on the side. Enjoy!

And if you like vegan fish recipes you will love my vegan carrot salmon on a tofu cream cheese bagel.