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Air Fryer Frozen Fish And Chips. Delicious crispy Waitrose breaded plaice with McCain Oven Chips cooked together in my Philips Air Fryer. A low cost and quick way to have your fish and chips supper.

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Air Fryer FrozenFish And Chips

Air Fryer Frozen FishAnd Chips takes me back to childhood. You see I grew up in a small seasidetown in the North of England and nothing was more popular for lunch or dinnerthan fish and chips.

You could head to the chippy on a Friday night for fish andchips supper.

The favourite fish and chip dinner were always fish (usually cod) with chips and mushy peas. Personally, I HATED IT would much rather have a battered sausage with chips and curry sauce.

But that was me!

People from the west would come and stay in our seaside town for a week and their highlight of the week would be the fish and chips. Unlike today’s generation that would eat out of everyday and be rather extravagant with their money.

That was not how it was done then. They would bring their groceries for the week and one trip to the fish and chip shop was their eating out budget done with.

My parents owned accommodation that many of them would stay at each summer. Then my summer job was working in the fish and chip shop, serving them.

It brings back great memories of childhood and the customers were always so polite and friendly.

Cooking Frozen FishAnd Chips In The Air Fryer

I love the air fryer for cooking fish and chips. Especially, using my lazy method of frozen fish and chips.

If you have not jumped and bought an air fryer yet, then Ihighly recommend one. They make all that boring food crispy and you forget thatyour air fryer frozen fish and chipshasn’t been cooked in the deep fat fryer as it tastes like it has.

It is like the air fryer is a magic wand that stripscalories off your favourite deep-fried food and then you feel less guilty nexttime you buy something that is not super healthy.

The air fryer we have, that we used to make our frozen fish and chips in, is the Philips XL and you can order it here or read our Philips Air Fryer XL Review.

We also used our favourite kitchen gadgets accessories pack for turning the fish.

How To Cook Frozen Fish And Chips In The Air Fryer?

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It is incredibly easy to cook frozen fish and chips in the air fryer. You would simply add the frozen chips to the air fryer first.

Then gently place the breaded fish over it. It makes it easy to cook both the fish and chips together at the same time.

Often when you have one air fryer its hard to keep one part ofthe meal warm while you wait for the other. But the magic happens in our frozenfish and chips because they cook together.

Halfway through cooking you can remove the breaded fish withyour spatula or with tongs, then shake the chips and then add the fish back in,while you cook the other side of the fish.

When the air fryer has finished you will have fish that is so crispy that you will forgot for a moment how many calories you just saved yourself.

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Why Cook Air FryerFish And Chips From Frozen?

There is a BIG problem sourcing fish and chips to use in the air fryer, unless you’re close to the sea.

Living in Portugal we can source fish easily, but it tends to be expensive and there is a lack of resources to make it into a meal. For example, getting a good-sized cod fillet that is fresh is nearly impossible.

Plus, it can make a real mess and fresh cod can often hold alot of water.

However, if you cook your air fryer fish and chips fromfrozen, then you have everything ready prepared and you’re likely to pay a LOT less for it.

It can of course be done from fresh and that’s why we haveour air fryer fishand chips recipe, BUT it is somuch easier from frozen!

How Do You CookFrozen Breaded Fish In An Air Fryer?

To cook frozenbreaded fish in an air fryer, is just like how you would cook frozen fishin an oven or on the grill, just with less mess and less calories.

You place the breaded fish in your air fryer basket and thencook it on 180c/360f until it is cooked. Usually this is 10 minutes for fishthat is on its own, or 16 minutes when you’re cooking fish and chips together.

If you want to reduce the mess if you have a wet batter or a flimsy breading, cook the air fryer food on your air fryer baking mat.

It is just so much better and just a quick wipe after cooking.

How Long Does ItTake To Cook Fish In An Air Fryer?

The time to cook fish in an air fryer varies, in the same way that it varies if you’re cooking chicken or pork in the air fryer.

The length of time tocook fish in the air fryer would depend on:

  • Size of the fish
  • Thickness of the fish
  • What else you’re cooking with the fish

For example, fish and chips cooked together will take 16 minutes, a small fish portion could be done in 10 minutes, depending on how thick it is.

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MORE Air FryerFish Recipes

We’ve been lazy with fish in the air fryer and have not cooked as many of them as we would have liked.

But we have had a browse through the air fryer archives here at RecipeThis.com and found some great ones for you.

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Air Fryer Frozen Fish And Chips

Air Fryer Frozen Fish And Chips. Delicious crispy Waitrose breaded plaice with McCain Oven Chips cooked together in my Philips Air Fryer. A low cost and quick way to have your fish and chips supper.

Prep Time0 minutes mins

Cook Time16 minutes mins

0 minutes mins

Total Time16 minutes mins

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Air Fryer

Servings: 2

Calories: 975kcal

Author: RecipeThis.com

Ingredients

Recipe Ingredients:

  • 2 Frozen Breaded Fish Fillets
  • 750 g Frozen Oven Chips

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Instructions

  • Place your oven chips into the air fryer basket and gently place your breaded fish fillets on top.

  • Cook for 8 minutes at 180c/360f.

  • When the air fryer beeps, using a spatula remove the frozen fish from the air fryer and put to one side.

  • Shake the frozen chips in the air fryer and add the fish back in, but on the other side.

  • Cook for a further 8 minutes at the same temperature.

  • Serve warm with mushy peas.

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Notes

You can use any breaded frozen fish fillets that you have. We used Waitrose but there are many brands available that its best to pick your favourite. Our breaded fish fillets were plaice, but any frozen white fish is fine. For example, cod and haddock are good options.

We used McCain Oven Chips. They carry a lot less oil than other brands and best of all they look like the chunky chips you get in a fish and chip shop restaurant. If you want to cook chips on their own then do read our air fryer frozen oven chips recipe.

Nutrition

Calories: 975kcal | Carbohydrates: 113g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 56g | Saturated Fat: 17g | Cholesterol: 0mg | Sodium: 1838mg | Potassium: 1612mg | Fiber: 16g | Sugar: 0g | Vitamin C: 23.6mg | Calcium: 34mg | Iron: 5mg

Nutrition InfoPlease Note: Nutrition values are our best estimate based on the software we use at Recipe This and are meant as a guide. If you rely on them for your diet, use your preferred nutrition calculator.

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