Looking for the best vegan fish recipe? Well, you found it! And it’s all thanks to cooking banana blossoms into this unique vegan fish & chips recipe. When you deep fry banana blossoms following my specific recipe, it will look like actual battered fish you’d find at a fish & chips spot. I’m even shocked.
Banana blossoms may be one of the strangest ingredients I’ve ever experimented with. It simply looks weird… like an alien hand. I know, delicious right? But hear me out, because you will be surprised how good this recipe is.
Banana blossoms come from South East Asia and come from banana trees. They don’t have any banana taste, in fact, they taste more similar to hearts of palm or an artichoke. I buy mine canned at an Asian grocery store, and I had so much fun experimenting with them today!
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I’ve created easy-to-follow instructions below! You can also watch me on YouTube show you how to make it!
I’ve made vegan fish and chips from many other things before, such and tofu, eggplant, hearts of palm and mushrooms, but banana blossoms and rice paper give this recipe the best vegan fish texture that naturally has a flaky, delicate texture.
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How To Make: Vegan Fish & Chips
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Other Vegan fish recipes:
- Baja Fish Tacos
- Beer Battered Fish and Chips
- Vegan Filet O Fish
- Page 177 of my Cookbook
INGREDIENTS FOR BEST VEGAN FISH AND CHIPS
INGREDIENTS FOR BEST VEGAN FISH AND CHIPSFor the Marinated Banana Blossoms:
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup ground seaweed
- 1 tbsp Old Bay seasoning
- 2 cans banana blossoms, drained & washed
- Sea salt and pepper to taste
For the Batter:
- ¾ cup unbleached flour
- ¼ cup corn starch
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp Old Bay seasoning
- 6 Tablespoons light beer (you can use sparkling water if you’d like to avoid beer)
- 7 tbsp soy milk
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp water
- Rice Paper sheets (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEST VEGAN FISH AND CHIPS
INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEST VEGAN FISH AND CHIPS- Place banana blossoms on a lipped plate or small casserole dish, press lightly with hands to slightly splay out the layers of the blossom. Set aside.
- Whisk together soy sauce, lime juice, garlic, olive oil, seaweed, and Old Bay seasoning in a small bowl.
- Rub blossoms with marinade to coat completely, and allow to marinate for 1-hour minimum, I recommend overnight for best results (to absorb more “ocean” taste of fish).
- In a large mixing bowl whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, sea salt, and old bay seasoning. Slowly whisk in beer, until batter is smooth. Allow resting for 15 mins.
- ASSEMBLY: Place ¼ cup of flour in a shallow bowl. Working in batches, dust banana blossoms with flour and dip into the beer batter to coat. Fry until 2-3 mins or until golden brown and crispy. Drain on a wire rack or paper towel.
- If pieces have fallen off, dip a rice paper sheet in warm water to soften then wrap loose pieces like a burrito before battering and frying.
- Serve Vegan Fish with “chips” aka french fries and a side of vegan tartar sauce.
This recipe truly will shock you and friends when replicating the best vegan fish and chips dish.
Recipe for Banana Blossom Vegan Fish
Recipe for Banana Blossom Vegan FishThe reason why this is the best fish and chips recipe because it won’t actually taste like stinky fish… which vegans tend not to want anyways. However, if you really wanted a more “fish” smell to trick non-vegans, I left the option and recommendation of leaving the banana blossoms in the marinade overnight to really absorb the “sea” flavour!
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup ground seaweed
- 1 tbsp Old Bay seasoning
- 2 cans banana blossoms, drained & washed
- Sea salt and pepper to taste
- ¾ cup unbleached flour
- ¼ cup corn starch
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp Old Bay seasoning
- 6 tbsp light beer (you can use sparkling water if you'd like to avoid beer)
- 7 tbsp soy milk
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp water
- Rice paper sheets (optional)
- Place banana blossoms on a lipped plate or small casserole dish, press lightly with hands to slightly splay out the layers of the blossom. Set aside.
- Whisk together soy sauce, lime juice, garlic, olive oil, seaweed, and Old Bay seasoning in a small bowl.
- Rub blossoms with marinade to coat completely, and allow to marinate for 1-hour minimum, I recommend overnight for best results.
- In a large mixing bowl whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, sea salt and old bay seasoning. Slowly whisk in beer, until batter is smooth. Allow to rest for 15 mins.
- Place ¼ cup of flour in a shallow bowl. Working in batches, dust banana blossoms with flour and dip into the beer batter to coat. If pieces have fallen apart, dip a sheet of rice paper in warm water and wrap small pieces of banana blossom with rice paper before battering and frying.
- Fry until 2-3 mins or until golden brown and crispy. Drain on a wire rack or paper towel.
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Greetings, I recently purchased one (haven’t cooked it as of yet though) fresh from the International market in the DMV Metropolitan area. I purchased it fresh because I prefer to use fresh if I could instead of can…..I do use some things from can, like coconut milk for cooking.
Anyway, I plan to try the above recipe as soon as I purchase some seaweed powder (not sure where to find this) & some old bay seasoning.
Dee
Where can I find banana blossoms?
I find them at my local asian market or health food store, they are in a can
Yep…Rice paper in the recipe but not in the method? And the same for soya milk?
For me its fine i cook all the time but for people that dont they have no idea.
please check recipes and methods before publishing, i have seen this alot on internet and in books!
Thanks for your comment! The rice paper is optional but I’ve updated the recipe card to include it!
Omg I made this for tea yesterday. It was so amazing and tasted like the real thing. After reading previous comments I wrapped them in nori sheets, I think this really added to the fishy flavour. This will,be my new go to recipe 😋😋😋😋😋
I made this recipe this evening and it was amazing! I marinated it overnight and it honestly tasted like actual fish. I used the rice paper to package the small bits that break off, great idea! I couldn’t find old bay season here in the UK but this recipe is great anyhow.
Sarah, I found a great Old Bay Seasoning recipe on ‘allrecipes.com’ https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-old-bay-seasoning/
I’m not sure we can get it here in the UK but this was worth doing. I think I’ve made enough for two more ‘fish and chip’ suppers. 😂
Candice (@edgyveg) – with the rice paper/nori – there were no instructions how to use them. I’m guessing it’s to wrap the blossoms up before coating in batter, but I didn’t have either in my cupboard, so just coated the blossoms themselves. Still tasted amazing! An awesome recipe. Thank you! 😎
Hey is it me or in the video there’s wayyy more soya sauce than 1/4 table spoon?
Thanks for pointing this out! It is a 1/4 cup of soy sauce!
Appreciate the recipe but maybe change the cup vs tbsp soy sauce thing in the instructions so somebody like me doesn’t learn from a comment that the whole thing is screwed up. Also, you mention rice paper at the beginning of the instructions but then that is not mentioned again.
Seed a great eating house in Friends House Meeting House (Quaker House) Euston Road London England. We stopped by and had an amazing fish n’ chip meal, fantastic, made from the blossom of the banana plant,so delicious. When in London please visit.
Has anyone tried this recipe in an air fryer or Crisp Lid? I really do not like frying in oil.
Since no one answered, I tired it in my full-sized air fryer (Cuisinart). Could easily do 4 or 5 at at ime.Put it under the broiler for a couple of mins to make it more crispy. Probably not as good as deep fried but a lot more healthy. And yes, it is a pretty good imitation of fish. My (vegan) daughter will love them. I am not vegan but they were fun to eat.
And forgot to say, I put them in the air fryer at 400 for 8 mins on a side.
Thank you Ron. I was watching this already thinking on how to make on my air fryer!
Thank you, Ron, for testing this out! I will give this recipe a try soon with your recommendation for air fryer 🙂
Errrr am I being silly…. there’s soy milk in the ingredients list but no mention of how it’s used in the instructions??
I mixed it in with the beer to make the batter thinner. It seemed to work ok.
At The Cornish Vegan we wrap the banana blossom in Nori sheets. This gives the impression of skin. Our customers love it and all agree that BB is the better than tofu, etc as a replacement.
Hello Candice. So, do I wait for an update on this recipe using the rice paper or is it as is and I follow the video instructions/recommendations?
I love your channel. You were one of the first vegan vloggers to inspire me and I still follow you. Thank you for sharing your amazing talent with us all
Wow! This really does look like fish and although I didn’t get to soak the blossoms overnight, I definitely will next time to get more of an authentic taste that my family enjoys
I used the rice paper and it was amazing!!