Fishfinger buttie

I grew up in Japan, England and the U.S., so all the good and bad of the food culture of each country is part of my food vocabulary. While I like to try out new things as much as any enthusiastic cook. "comfort food" to me means things that I used to eat when I was little.

The British have a penchant for the most wonderfully stodgy food. A fishfinger buttie is one such thing. I honestly don't know if this thing would taste good to anyone except someone who's grown up eating it. Jamie Oliver even has a recipe for it in one of his cookbooks (I can't remember which...it could be Happy Days). It's basically a white bread sandwich with yes, fish fingers or fish sticks - those breaded frozen things with dubious fish (they usually say cod) inside, that you either bake in the oven or fry up in a pan - as the filling. Sounds awful? Maybe, but it is a tasty snack sometimes. For some reason I like this only in the cold months...I never get a fishfinger buttie craving in the summer.

My version of a fishfinger buttie

For 1 buttie (sandwich):

  • 4-6 frozen fish fingers (fish sticks)
  • 2 slices of good quality white bread
  • Iceberg lettuce
  • Worcestershire sauce or steak sauce
  • Mayonnaise

Prepare the fish fingers, either by baking in the oven or toaster oven, or frying them in a bit of butter in a frying pan. If you do this drain them well on paper towels. Do not microwave the fish fingers. Sure it's just snack food, but you don't want soggy fingers!

The bread should be fresh and good. A nice crusty bread is nice, but regular loaf bread would do too. The slices should be pretty thick.

Spread each slice of bread with some mayonnaise. Put the fish fingers on one. Drizzle the Worcestershire sauce or (preferred) thick steak sauce over the fish fingers. Cover with a couple of iceberg lettuce leaves, then the other slice of bread.

Eat with milk or a good bottle of beer.

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Comments

Oh yeah!!!
Anything like that between two slices of bread is fantastic! Fish fingers, sausages, chicken nuggets, chips, crisps (yep that's right - they're two different things), I personally would recomend ketchup, however, instead of mayonnaise.

Actually, I find there's nothing better when you're hungry than just finding the most bizarre things to put in a sandwich. I've tried digestives and yogurt before - or noodles, or banana and nutella!

ooh! (drooling), Bon appetit!

Fish finger butties are awesome! nice with just salad cream or mayo :D ... on the comment about banana and nutella sandwiches... nutella and peanut butter sandwiches (using biscuits insead of bread) is also a good one mmmmmmmm

I can't believe this delicacy is only found in the UK. It's marvellous! For the unadventurous, buttered bread and fish fingers is all that's needed.

Amen to the crisp sandwich Daytripper! Cheese and onion crisps if you're going to be fancy, or just plain ready salted for normal sarnies.

Thanks Maki for giving the humble fish finger sandwich a decent home on the internet!

heyy everybody :) i like fish fingerss ;) lol x
i think hb sauce is saucyy(;x
its a privatee joke so i know that hb saude is actually hp saucee x

heyy everybody :) i like fish fingerss ;) lol x
i think hb sauce is saucyy(;x
its a privatee joke so i know that hb sauce is actually hp saucee x

I love the recipes on this site, but this one made me so happy.
I'm living in Korea at the moment, and it was lovely seeing this!
Fish finger butties are best with butter and an insane amount of ketchup.

They serve this at my uni! I love it! I wish I had fish fingers in now... Loads of ketchup is the best!!