Youll find plenty of fish cake recipes floating around.
But there are good fish cakes and then there aregreatfish cakes!
Meanwhile, adding garlic, chilli, green onion and thyme to the mix keeps these full of flavour!
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Ingredients in Fish Cakes
Heres what you need:.
The Fish
Butter, salt and pepper For pan frying.
Nothing more needed because were mixing flavours right into the fish cakes, see below!
Even salmon will work great!
US:Tilapia, Cod, Alaskan pollock, Catfish.
UK:Cod, Pollack, Hake, Sea Bass, Haddock, Salmon.
Canned tuna and salmonwill also work here.
Keep them in nice big chunks.
Also, theres no need to cook them.
Oily fishthat also tends to have quite a fish flavour, as sardines, mackerel and river trout.
Fish thats toosmall or delicate for this recipe.
ThisMonkfish recipeis more worthy!)
Ingredients for the Fish Cakes
Potato This is used to bind and fill out the fish cakes.
Any starchy or all-rounder potatoes will work fine here.
How to make (really good!)
Fish Cakes
Youll find recipes online that are simpler with fewer steps.
But I promise the (small!)
extra effort is worth it and I explain why!
Fish cake mixture
Bake potatoesfor 75 minutes until they offer no resistance when pierced with a knife.
Scoop outpotato flesh in a bowl.
Pan-searlarge cubes of fish in butter, then remove from the pan.
Pourthis glorious, flavour-loaded buttery mixture into the potatoes.
Roughly mash potatoAdd the parsley, some salt and pepper then roughly mash.
Emphasis here on the wordroughly.
We want some lumps for texture which creates a nice contrast to the soft flakes of fish.
Add fish Add the fish, including any juices pooled in the bowl / tray.
Gently stirthe fish in, taking care not to break up the delicate fish flakes too much.
Form pattiesTurn the mixture out onto your hand then form patties.
Crumbing, dust with flour To coat the fish cakes in panko breadcrumbs, start by coating in flour.
Roll to coat both sides and dont forget the edges.
Nobody wants fish cakes with naked edges we need golden crumbsall over!!
Egg Next, dip the fish cake into the beaten eggs and let the excess drip off.
Panko breadcrumbs And finally, place it in a bowl of panko breadcrumbs.
Spoon some breadcrumbs over then use your hands to pat it on to adhere as best you might.
Pick the fish cake up and let the excess breadcrumbs fall off.
Repeat with remaining fish cakes.
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Now were ready to cook them!
Pan fry Firstly, pan fry until golden on both sides.
But without specifically pan-frying the sides, they wont go golden.
Removeonce the fish cakes are golden on each side.
It only takes around 1 1/2 minutes.
Transfer them to a paper towel-lined tray to absorb excess oil, then continue cooking the remaining fish cakes.
However, as regular readers know, Im a sauce gal.
Find all these sauceshere.
Even ketchup / Aussie tomato sauce is great.
Dont ever let anyone tell you what you should or should not dip your fish cakes into!!
a) Yes
b) No
c) This isnt really a quiz, ofcoursehe got the prawn!
