Delicious in Dungeon #42: Sky Fish and Chips

Sky fish! Does that look familliar to you? You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

I'm aware that this dish is meant to be more of a reference to regular battered fish and chips... but that's NOT what they made when actually creating the familliar in the manga/anime. they made it out of leftover supplies. So I thought it'd be cute to make a crazy spring roll instead!

  

Here's a lil cross section shot, but let's now back up and show how we got to this..

I've got my defrosted spring roll wraps, and based on that diagram of the ingredients used to alchemize the skyfish, we've got leftover beef, cabbage, carrots, and spring onion. I... don't... remember why I bought smoked tofu for this recipe...? I guess it can be the cartillage? Whatever im using it.

I've chopped and julienned the cabbage, carrot and spring onion. I'm going to fry them in a bit of sesame oil.

And then cut the beef and tofu into thin strips. Come to think of it.... everything's already cooked (or edible raw) so I guess we didn't need to do this step...? Oh well.

Now I carefully separate and arrange the fillings, and wrap it all up with 2 sheets into a giant extra-long spring roll! You can scroll back up to see how that turned out.

All the remaining veg and spring roll wraps can be a problem for tomorrow, because this wack recipe wants us to BATTER AND DEEP FRY the thing. 

I'm preparing just a really small portion of tempura batter in a big bowl so I can roll this giant wingwang in it.

Here goes... I have to be very careful not to tear it. it's a 2 spatula job.

In it goes! ....Hmm, this is stupid. If its going to come out bent like this i might as well just cut it in half at this point. I'll cut it with a plastic spatula of course. Should have just done this sooner. Or like... why didnt i just make 2 normal sized spring rolls....?

The wings get rolled up and dunked in the rest of the batter and thrown in there as well!

While thats cooking we can make a little dip. I've decided to mix yuzu salad dressing, soy sauce and vinegar.

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It's perfectly crispy! It was a little over-laboured so I didn't expect much, but I was quite impressed. The plain wings were crispy and chewy and went great with a vinegary dip, and the spring rolls tasted so fresh... After a while though, I started to think.. maybe smoked tofu and slow-cooker beef is a bit of a weird flavour in a spring roll actually... and the oilyness gets a little sickly after a while, I should stop minmaxing fried things and start serving them with a side.