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healthy fish fingers on platter with lemon

Homemade Fish Fingers Recipe

This recipe for homemade fish fingers is tasty, healthy, and fast and avoids the additive and GMO ingredients of commercial brands at the store even the organic ones!

Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword easy, healthy
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 6
Calories 310 kcal
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Pour the coconut oil in a large frying pan and place it on a large burner on the stovetop. Turn the heat to medium.

  2. Crack the eggs in a large bowl and beat lightly with a fork. Sprinkle some sea salt and pepper into the egg mixture and beat once more with the fork.

  3. Sprinkle and evenly distribute the flour onto a large plate.

  4. Dip each fish fillet in the egg mixture and then cover both sides of the fillet with flour by gently dragging it through the flour on the floured plate. Repeat until all the fillets are battered.

  5. Check the temperature of the oil in the frying pan with a food thermometer. It should be about 325°F/ 163 °C or slighly lower, as it's been heating up while you were battering the fish. Place the battered fillets gently into the hot oil in the pan.

  6. Cook for about 3 minutes and then turn each fillet over with a large stainless steel utensil or wooden tongs (please don't use plastic!). Cook for 3-4 minutes more.

  7. When a knife easily cuts through the center of each fillet like butter, the fish fingers are ready. Don't cook them a moment longer or the fish will get chewy. Remove the fillets from the pan with the tongs and place on a large plate. Cut each fillet lengthwise and then again across the middle to form four fish fingers per fillet. If you used very large fillets, feel free to cut them down making more than four fingers per fillet.

  8. Serve immediately with your choice of vegetables, salad, or soup.

  9. Refrigerate leftovers and serve as fish sandwiches for lunch the next day.

Nutrition Facts
Homemade Fish Fingers Recipe
Amount Per Serving (0.25 pound)
Calories 310 Calories from Fat 162
% Daily Value*
Fat 18g28%
Saturated Fat 16g80%
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 1g
Potassium 210mg6%
Carbohydrates 24g8%
Fiber 1g4%
Protein 13g26%
Calcium 18mg2%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.