Whiting burger in cider rolls with tartare sauce and gherkin salad

Shopping list

• Fruit and vegetables

  • 1 x 400g/14oz tin peaches or pears, juice reserved
  • 6 banana shallots, roughly chopped
  • 8 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 3 medium hot red chillies, finely chopped
  • 5 tbsp chopped flat leaf parsley
  • 1 lemon, juice only
  • 4 gherkins, chopped
  • 1 tbsp flat leaf parsley
  • 3 gherkins, finely sliced
  • 1 cucumber, chopped
  • 2 shallots, finely sliced

• Tins, packets and jars

  • ½ tsp English mustard powder
  • 2 tbsp chopped capers

• Cooking ingredients

  • 280g/10oz strong white flour
  • 15g/½oz fresh yeast
  • 100g/3½oz strong white flour
  • 15g/½oz fresh yeast
  • 10g/¼oz fine salt
  • olive oil for cooking
  • 250g/9oz fresh white breadcrumbs
  • sea salt (preferably Cornish) and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tsp white wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 275ml/10floz rapeseed oil
  • rapeseed oil, for drizzling

• Drinks

  • 150ml/5½oz cider

• Dairy, eggs and chilled

  • 15g/½oz unsalted butter
  • 3 free-range eggs, lightly beaten
  • 2 large free-range egg yolks

• Meat, fish and poultry

  • 1.5kg/3lb 5oz whiting fillet, skin removed and chopped

• Other

  • 160ml/5fl oz reserved peach or pear juice
  • 200g/7oz granary bread flour
  • 60g/2¼oz starter dough (from above)

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