Perfectly crispy and easy to make, these fish sticks may fool even the most seasoned fish stick connoisseur.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ lbs haddock (or any firm, meaty white fish)
- roughly 6 oz of plantain chips (Check labels, ideally just plantains, palm oil and salt)
- F.O.C. (fat of choice), palm and coconut will work well here
Method
In a food processor, crush up the plantain chips until they’re the consistency of fine bread crumbs. Place the crumbs in a zip-top bag and add some salt, if the chips haven’t already been a-salted, I mean, salted. Corny? Yes.
Slice the fish fillets into strips/planks/sticks, widthwise. Working in batches, add a few fish strips to the zip-top bag and shake around until the strips are completely coated.
Melt your F.O.C. in a saute pan over medium heat. Place the coated strips in the pan and let them get brown before you flip them to the other side. This should take less than a minute for each side. If you’ve cut the fish sticks pretty thick, don’t forget you’ve got 4 sides to brown, not just 2.
23 Comments
Lisa
August 26, 2011 at 3:03 pmI love this idea – how original! Have you tried using the plantain “bread crumbs” any other way?
Look forward to trying this recipe, thanks for sharing.
megan keatley
August 27, 2011 at 6:06 pmthanks lisa. i haven’t tried it any other variation yet. i thought about chicken of course, but wasn’t sure if it’d have adequate time to cook through before the plantain crumbs browned. so…we’ll just continue to play around with it and see what happens.
Trixie
August 27, 2011 at 1:25 pmAWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
megan keatley
August 27, 2011 at 6:06 pmthanks trixie!
Liz N
August 29, 2011 at 2:15 pmOMG! I can totally see my 5 year old digging this one! Genius, I say, G-E-N-I-U-S! And, that’s why I’m always chomping at the bit to get my e-mail alert for new recipes like this. Thanks for sharing another winning recipe.
Susan
September 4, 2011 at 9:34 pmLove it! Always looking for paleo meals I can cook for my kids too. My daughter hates bananas/plantains, but her brother would dig these! Thanks for the great idea.
megan keatley
September 7, 2011 at 12:11 pmhope y’all enjoy susan!
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Rebecka
September 14, 2011 at 5:22 pmTHANK YOU!!! My son and I are both Celiac’s and sometimes we get the hankering for some breaded fish. Almonds are not easily available where we live, but we can get plantain chips on every street corner and in every flavor. We will be trying this recipe ASAP!
Sandra Brigham
September 21, 2011 at 4:18 pmMy husband made these for us last night. I’m Paleo but my husband and adult son aren’t. We all loved this recipe. We’ve tried many Paleo recipes which we’ve absolutely hated and would never make again. But this one is a keeper. We used Haddock but my husand said he’d try a firmer fish next time. However, the Haddock works!!
megan keatley
September 23, 2011 at 1:56 pmawesome sandra!
Brandy B.
September 21, 2011 at 4:46 pmYAY! Cannot wait to try these tonight! I’m sure my kids will love them also! SO Excited…thanks for an awesome recipe 🙂
megan keatley
September 23, 2011 at 1:57 pmhope y’all like ’em!
Fred B
November 13, 2011 at 5:34 pmThese look great! What are some other types of fish you could use? Also, where did you find the plantain chips?
megan keatley
November 17, 2011 at 11:13 ami usually can find plantain chips around the ethnic section of the produce section or at tjmaxx or world market (if you have one of those). i feel like any white fish that holds up well when it’s cooked will work well here. so maybe instead of the ones that would work, the ones that wouldn’t; think tilapia and catfish types.
Ashlee
September 2, 2012 at 10:42 pmThese were awesome! My four year old has really missed “fish sticks” since going paleo. She couldn’t stop eating these! Our whole family enjoyed them. What a great idea!
Maggie Cain
October 7, 2012 at 12:48 pmIs there a reason you specify plantain chips instead of banana chips? I can only find the latter at my local grocery, and would like to know if it’s really necessary before running around looking for them.
Maggie
Johanna
October 17, 2012 at 7:12 pmUsually banana chips have sugar and banana flavor added. If you can find plain banana chips they work well too
Maggie Cain
November 3, 2012 at 10:30 amI really struggled with these. I had the chips in the food process FOREVER and they woulnd’t grind down enough. Then, since they were not finely enough ground, they wouldn’t stick to the fish. What did I do wrong?
megan keatley
November 11, 2012 at 12:27 pmhmmmm. perhaps the plantain chips were too thick and the food processor had a hard time getting them into crumbs?
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