Name: Codfish Fritters
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon sea salt; 750ml water; 1 litre vegetable oil for frying; 1–2 scotch bonnet or habanero peppers; 375g self-raising flour; 1½ teaspoons baking powder; 1 heaped teaspoon caster sugar; 1 bunch spring onions; 1 large onion; 350g salt cod

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from Brixton Village

By Miss South

Published 2014

About

These fritters use salt cod rather than fresh, and its texture helps make these little bites so light and ethereal they’ve been described as being ‘like a high five from Jesus’. Do make the ginger and lime aioli to accompany them: you’ll want to drink it from the bowl it’s so good!

Ingredients

350g salt cod
1 large onion
1 bunch spring onions

Method

Soak the salt cod overnight, changing the water at least once. Then drain the salt cod, place it in a dish and cover with boiling water from a kettle. Leave it for 15 minutes to rehydrate and cool. Strain the fish and set aside without flaking it. This keeps the fritters lighter.

Peel and dice the onion. Finely chop the spring onions and the chilli peppers, leaving the seeds in if you l