Homemade fish fingers for kids

Name: Homemade fish fingers
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 2 large fish (approx 400g (cod, haddock or other white fish)); 150 g 2 cups breadcrumbs; 1 egg; 4 tbsp flour

Homemade fish fingers for kids are delicious and easy. They’re a a great meal for kids to make, that they’ll also enjoy eating. Simply coat the fish in flour, beaten egg and breadcrumbs before baking in the oven.

Homemade fish fingers are the perfect recipe for kids. Not only will they enjoy eating them, they can help to make them too!

Our kids, like most others love fish fingers. And while the supermarket ones are very convenient, homemade fish fingers are truly delicious. So delicious, even grown ups will enjoy them. I generally like to make dinners from scratch so I don’t see why fish fingers should be an exception.

Making these fish fingers is really very simple, and if you’ve made our chicken schnitzel or chicken nuggets in the past, you’ll know just what to do. It’s simply a case of coating them in breadcrumbs and baking in the oven.

How can kids help to make homemade fish fingers?

This recipe for fish fingers is great for kids as it’s so easy. Kids love doing things like this as they can do most of the steps themselves and get a real sense of achievement. You can also tweak them to your own taste by adding various herbs and spices or Parmesan to the breadcrumbs.

If your kids want to help make them, get them to help prepare the flour, egg and breadcrumb coatings. Once they’re ready, they can then dip the fish into each in turn. It looks like it should be more complicated but I promise it isn’t!

What’s the best way to cook the fish fingers?

My prefered way of cooking the fish fingers is to bake them in the oven for about 20 minutes. If you bake them, you can forget about them and get on a prepare the side dishes. Alternatively you can fry them in a little oil, turning them half way to make sure they’re cooked through.

Are homemade fish fingers healthy?

Yes. White fish is low in fat which makes it healthy – far healthier than red or processed meat. The best thing about homemade food is that you know exactly what goes into it so these homemade fish fingers have nothing added, except the 4 ingredients (fish, bread, egg and flour).

Can my toddler/baby eat fish fingers?

Yes! Fingers area great finger food for young children. My kids started eating fish fingers before they were one. With this easy recipe, you could get older siblings or even toddlers themselves to help make them, making them a great family meal.

Useful equipment

You might need the following baking tools/gadgets to make these homemade fish fingers

Pyrex dishes
Baking tray
Frying pan

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Difficulty: Easy

Time: 20 minutes plus 15 minutes baking

Serves: 2 adults, 2 small children

Ingredients

2 large fish (approx 400g) (cod, haddock or other white fish)
150g (2 cups) breadcrumbs
1 egg
4 tbsp flour

how to make homemade fish fingers

Preheat the oven to 180 and line a baking tray with baking/parchment paper.

Prepare the coating

There are three parts to the crumb – flour, egg and breadcrumbs and all three are easy for kids to do themselves. As there are a few different steps it can be easy to divide them up between your kids if you have more than one helper.

Start by getting your kids to spoon some flour into a dish.

Next, get your child to crack the egg into a dish and mix it with a fork.

Finally, make the breadcrumbs. We tore up two slices of bread, and whizzed them up in our hand food processor. Slightly stale bread works a bit better, but I just normally use the heals from whatever bread we have open. You can add seasoning if you like at this point, or some parmesan or herbs. Put the breadcrumbs in a dish ready for dipping.

Top tip: if you make too many breadcrumbs pop some in a freezer bag and put them in the freezer until the next time you need some.

Prepare the fish

Make sure there are no bones in your fish then cut them into nice fish finger sized fillets. We got about 6 ‘fingers’ out of each of our fish.

Make the fish fingers

Get your kids to take a piece of fish and dip it first into the flour, then the egg and breadcrumbs making sure all the sides are coated.

Place it on the prepared baking tray.

Repeat this until all the fish are coated.

Bake your homemade fish fingers

Bake the fish fingers in the oven for around 15-20 minutes. They’re ready when the fish is cooked through and the breadcrumb coating has started to brown a little.

I find it easier to pop them in the oven because I can forget about them and get the rest of dinner ready but you could fry the fish fingers in a hot pan. Simply cook them in a frying pan in a little oil for a few minutes on each side until they are cooked through.

Serve and enjoy!

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