It's battered and fried fish - usually cod - with a side of fries.
This is classic English fast food. It's traditionally served with malt vinegar to shake on both, for seasoning. If you buy this in the UK on the street it will most likely be handed over to you cradled in newspaper as cheap packaging.
The foods are known as ingredients of a one dish meal.
A one dish meal is just a meal that is prepared using one dish resulting in less cleanup. IE: Stir fry
The typical meaning of a one-dish meal refers to how it is served. For example, a casserole.A meal that is all cooked in one dish, e.g. a casserole.
A one-dish meal is a meal made of any dishe that can be made by cooking all ingreadients in one dish or pot, such as soups, stews, and some casseroles.
the ingredients needed for the one-dish meal, and the utensils and of cause, the recipe.
A one dish meal is generally some sort of casserole or hearty stew/soup. Curries can also be considered a one dish meal. This sort of dish combines the components of a regular meal (vegetables, protein, carbohydrates) into one dish, hence the name.
A one-dish meal is a meal with only one course. For example, I could go to a restaraunt and just order the main course. That's one dish. Or I could just order dessert that's also one dish.
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It is a dish which has no side dishes that means that the dish is the main dish.
Because it is a traditional dish particularly for the urban working class. It is said that fish and chips or at least the deep fried fish part of the dish has its origins in the influx of Jewish immigrants to the UK. Fish friers sold fried fish which because it was cooked before the sabbath could be consumed as a tasty snack on the sabbath. The non Jewish population also liked this fried fish particularly if accompanied by potato chips (French fries). The rise of fish and chips as a popular dish follows the rise of the factory system. Hard pressed workers particularly women with a family to feed and little time to cook when they came home after a long days labour found fish and chips a convenient way to feed their family from time to time. They were cheap as Britain produces a lot of potatoes and was surrounded by seas rich in fish particularly cod and haddock. The development in the 19th century of the steam trawler and refrigeration opened up the fish rich Icelandic waters to British fishermen and made fish even cheaper. Fish and chips became for the British their first convenience/take away food. It is worth noting that so popular was fish and chips and so important to working people's morale that throughout the second world war fish and chips was never subject to rationing unlike other foods. Apart from that we like fish and chips because they taste good. Sadly they become more and more expensive as fish stocks decline and compared to my childhood in the 1950's the fish get smaller. Or maybe that I have got bigger!
Just because everything is made in one dish - doesn't necessarily mean they are healthy. When selecting a one dish recipe/meal, look for those that are made primarily of vegetables along with some lean meat or chicken or fish
One dish meals are good to serve for both lunch and dinner. A one dish meal usually consists of soup, stew, or casserole served with a bread.