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Polenta Baked Fish & Sweet Potato Chips

Fish and chips – but with a lighter, brighter, healthier makeover! Swap greasy, deep-fried battered fish for baked lemony polenta crusted basa. With fibre-rich sweet potato chips and lemony 'mushy' peas on the side, it counts as two of your 5-a-day too – delish! (Dairy-free: see our FAQs for details).

30 mins
301kcal
British
Polenta Baked Fish & Sweet Potato Chips
3.5

Ingredients for 2 people

2 x 100g basa fillets
2 x 100g basa fillets
80g garden peas
80g garden peas
1 lemon
1 lemon

You'll also need

Olive oil, Pepper, Salt (or dietary alternatives)

Cooking instructions

Instructions for 2 portion recipe.

1.

Preheat the oven to 200°C/ 180°C (fan)/ 425°F/ Gas 7

Cut the sweet potato[es] (skin on) into chips

 

Step 1
2.

Add the chips to a large mixing bowl with 1 tbsp [2 tbsp] of olive oil and a generous pinch of salt and give everything a good mix up

Add the oiled chips to a baking tray and put the tray in the oven for 20 min or until the chips are tender and starting to crisp

Step 2
3.

Meanwhile, boil a kettle

Zest the lemon[s] and cut in half 

Combine the polenta with the lemon zest on a plate with a generous pinch of salt and pepper

Step 3
4.

Coat the basa in the zesty polenta until fully covered

Tip: don't worry if all the polenta doesn't stick!

Step 4
5.

Lightly grease a baking tray

Add the coated basa fillets to the tray

Put the tray in the oven and cook for 10-12 min or until the fish is cooked and crisp

Tip: your fish is cooked when it turns opaque and flakes easily

Step 5
6.

Meanwhile, add the garden peas to a pot, cover them with boiling water (just enough to cover them) with a pinch of salt, bring to the boil over a high heat and cook for an initial 3 min

Wash, then pat the spinach dry

After 3 min add the spinach and cook for a further 2 min or until the spinach is wilted and the peas are tender, then drain and return to the pot

Step 6
7.

Add the juice of 1/2 [1] lemon to the drained peas and spinach

Season generously with salt and pepper 

Blitz until smooth with a hand blender – these are your mushy peas 

 

Step 7
8.

Cut the remaining lemon into wedges

Serve the crispy basa with the sweet potato chips and mushy peas to the side

Garnish with the lemon wedge

Enjoy!

Nutritional information

Nutritional information only applies to ingredients supplied by Gousto.

per serving
301kcal
Energy
9.1g
Fat
31.4g
Carbohydrate
3.5g
Fibre
29g
Protein
0.6g
Salt

The cooking process and additional ingredients added at home (listed under “You'll also need”) will affect total values.

Allergens

Allergens highlighted by (fish, gluten, milk).

In addition to the recipe specific allergen information provided, due to production and packing methods Gousto boxes may also contain low levels of the following allergens: Cereals containing gluten; Crustaceans; Eggs; Fish; Peanuts; Soya; Milk; Nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecan nuts, brazil nuts, pistachio nuts, macadamia nuts; Celery; Sesame; Sulphur dioxide and Sulphites; Lupin; Molluscs; Mustard.

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