Lily's Fish Fingers The Dumping Ground Dish Up

Hello, people!

-REST OF GROUP:

-Hi!

I'm Lily, this is Frank, Elektra, Johnny and Sapphire.

I've dragged in a few of my old friends

from The Dumping Ground days...

WHOOPING

..to help with a project that I'm doing on healthy eating

at my catering college. We've chosen our favourite recipes and shoved them

into a hat for someone else to select at random and make the meal.

The person who suggested the recipe is going to become the chef's

assistant, and they're going to tell us exactly why they chose it.

-So, Johnny?

-Yes.

-Ooh!

-Right.

DRUMROLL

Pick a name, pick a name, pick a name!

I will be doing...

-Lily's Fabulous Fish Fingers.

-Yum!

OK. Elektra.

You are going to love these. OK, everyone...

ALL: Jump cut!

LAUGHING

Yeah, very funny, guys(!) Shall we try this again? One, two, three...

ALL: Jump cut!

All right, so, I am going to be making the breadcrumbs whilst my

assistant is sorting out the fish.

-What's wrong with fish fingers from the shop, anyway?

-Oh, nothing.

I used to live on them. I made them for my sisters and when I helped out

in the DG. But then I saw someone actually make them on a cooking show.

I thought I'd give them a try, and when I did, they were unreal.

So, it just...

It makes me think of getting through the bad times and coming...

FOOD PROCESSOR WHIRRS

Oh! I'm sorry, I thought you were finished!

-Still sentimental, then, Johnny?

-Oh, you know it.

SAPPHIRE AND JOHNNY LAUGH

Who's ready for some more noise?

-SAPPHIRE AND ELECKTRA:

-More noise!

-WHOOPING

-Whoa!

FOOD PROCESSOR WHIRRS

If you don't have a food processor, you can grate the bread.

Johnny's doing that,

while I'm patting the fish down with some kitchen paper to make

sure that it's dry, and then cutting them into strips,

two centimetres by eight centimetres.

And make sure that you've checked for bones, as well.

All right, and now, we need everything lined up,

cos this next bit's fun.

Assembly line jump cut!

-All right. You ready?

-Yeah!

OK.

Assistant, fish strip.

Thank you very much.

Right, so, lightly coat the fish strip in flour

and black pepper, plus garlic and paprika, as well, if you want,

-and then shake off the extra.

-Then you got to dunk it in the egg.

And then dunk it in the breadcrumb...and make sure

it's all covered.

-That's it. Make sure you haven't missed anything.

-Mm-hm.

-There you go. Put it on the plate.

-OK. Assistant? Jump cut.

Do your own jump cut.

All right.

We've just washed our hands cos we've been handling raw fish. OK.

These babies need to sit in the fridge for ten minutes.

There we go. See you in ten, little fishes.

Jump cut!

All right.

So, these have had time to chill for a while now,

so the breadcrumb should be nice and set. Lily, my assistant...

You've really got to stop doing that.

..had already turned on the oven,

so it should now be preheated to 200 degrees.

OK, kitchen assistant Lily, please can you pass me the baking tray?

Ta. Now, kitchen assistant Lily, can you please can you pass me

the cooking tongs?

Oh, sorry, Johnny(!)

No worries.

All right, so now you can transfer the fish fingers over to the

baking tray and give them a little drizzle of oil.

-And then...

-Oven gloves.

Thank you.

Into the oven...for six minutes.

Big fat time lapse.

Six minutes!

-Six minutes! All right!

-Ta!

So, after six minutes, you need to flip your fish fingers over

and then just stick them in for another six minutes.

GROANING

Okey dokey.

Awesome.

Right. So, you can serve them with sweet potato wedges and peas,

or just dunked in ketchup.

They are kitchen assistant Lily's Fabulous Fish Fingers.

-Yeah, they do look good.

-Yeah.

Going to try one.

-Ready? You ready for this, Johnny?

-Mm-hm. Better be good.

They are good. Very good.

-Although, I do quit as assistant.

-Oh, what?

No, you're good at this.

-You should definitely come and cook for the Army.

-There's a job!

GIGGLING

-So, happy cooking, guys. I hope that you've all enjoyed...

-Do you...

Do you think that that's too much ketchup?

GROANING AND CHATTER

-You thief! Ketchup thief!

-So gross. That's so gross.