Yule be battered by this festive feast
A CHIP shop boss has blown traditional deep-fried Mars bars out of the water by cooking an entire Christmas dinner in... batter.
Festive-spirited Andrew Marshall offers hungry punters a chicken leg, sprouts, carrots, pigs-in-blankets, stuffing, gravy bomb and a mince pie – all plunged in oil.
The £9.95 meal packs a waistline-busting 1,100 calories and even Andrew, who dreamed up the idea, admits: “It is a little heavy, it’s not something you’re going to have every day.”
The wacky seasonal dinner grew out of experiments with deep-fried sprouts, which Andrew said are “like Marmite” because people either love them or hate them.
The owner of Marshall’s Fish Bar in Cullompton, Devon, said: “It snowballed from doing battered sprouts and pigs-in-blankets to seeing if I could do an entire Christmas dinner.
“The chicken leg is just fried as normal and the local butcher supplies me with the bacon which wraps around my sausages for the pigs-in-blankets. The mince pie has the highest calorie count of everything. It’s a random thing but it works very well.
“I have tried it all with some friends, just to gauge their opinion, and they really liked it.”
Andrew, 35, has been in the trade for nearly 20 years and has run his shop for the past six months.
For 2018 he is already working on plans for battering haggis on Burns Night in January, deep-friend scallops served with wine for two on Valentine’s Day in February and chocolate cream eggs at Easter.