Homemade fish sticks with yellow split peas

Spitika fish sticks me fava

Ingredients

  • 2 fillets of perch or sole fish or any fish fillet you want
  • 1 egg
  • Salt and pepper
  • grated toast
  • all purpose flour
  • olive oil
  • 1 cup fava (yellow split peas)
  • 2,5 cups water
  • 1 dry onion
  • 1 medium carrot
  • Salt and pepper

Method

for the fish sticks

  1. Add salt and pepper to the fish and leave for half an hour to marinate.
  2. In a pan, put some olive oil (or vegetable oil) to heat (an amount equal to cover the half thickness of the fish).
  3. In a bowl, put the grated toast, in another the egg (slightly beaten), and in another the flour.
  4. When oil heats pass the fish from the grated toast, then the egg and finally the flour and place in pan.
  5. Fry for 2′-3′ each side of the fish and place on kitchen paper to remove the excess oil.

for fava

  1. In a pressure cooker add the fava and water.
  2. When it starts boiling remove the foam, add the onion (skinned and whole), the carrot, salt, pepper, close the cooker and let it boil in medium heat for about 20 minutes.
  3. Open the pressure cooker and carefully mash the fava with puree tool or in a blender.
  4. The fava is ready to serve.