Vegan fish fingers

This recipe is so yummy and bursting with comforting flavor, it will convince even non-vegans. Serve with your favorite dipping sauce!

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 4

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Ingredients

Step 1 ingredients:
Plenty of cooking oil
Sushi sheets
Step 2 ingredients:
9 oz. extra firm tofu
1 cup artichoke hearts in oil
Juice of 1/2 lemon
Step 3 ingredients:
2/3 cup 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
Fries

This recipe is so yummy and bursting with comforting flavor, it will convince even non-vegans. Serve with your favorite dipping sauce!

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 4

Preparation

Step 1: Pour cooking oil into a pan and add 1 pack of sushi nori 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 flavor. 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 towel to soak up the excess oil. Optionally drizzle some lemon juice on top when serving the fish fingers. Have cooked peas, fries, or potato salad and ketchup or vegan mayo on the side. Enjoy!

Method

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 a 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 towel 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!

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