Friday, March 19, 2010

Fish Cake


These fish cakes are very simple to make, and taste great when made with quality fresh fish.
Ingredients:
3 Potatoes
200g Fresh Fish Fillets (Salmon, cod, etc. Basically the best fish your fish monger has at the time)
1 Red onion
1 Bunch of parsley or coriander leaves
1 tsp of garam masala (optional)
Salt and pepper
200g Fresh breadcrumbs
100ml Milk
2 Eggs
3-4 green chillies(optional)
plain flour
Instructions:
1.Peel and wash the potatoes and cut into even size pieces before placing in a small pot to boil. 2.When the potatoes have cooked and are soft strain and mash until smooth.
Set aside and allow to cool.
3. Peel and dice the red onion into a small dice.
4.Cut the fish into rough size pieces that are more or less all even in size.
5.Mix together in a bowl the fish, mashed potatoes, red onion, green chillies,garam masala, chopped parsley or coriander leaves, salt and pepper.
6.Make the mix into little fish cake shapes using a little flour or they start to stick.
Beat the 2 eggs together in a bowl until smooth.
7.Dip each of the fish cakes first into the flour and shake off any excess Next place the floured fishcakes into the egg mix and again shake off any excess.
8.Finally place the fish cakes into the breadcrumbs ensuring that they are evenly covered with breadcrumbs.
9.Heat a medium pan up, add a splash of olive oil or butter or sunflower oil and fry the cakes on each side for 2 minutes or until golden brown.
or U can Place the fish cakes to an oven tray at 180C/360F for 10 minutes.

1 comment:

  1. the recipe and teh name is interestingIis it sweet??.....
    isn't it a cutlet??
    but one doubt....
    100ml Milk ...what is this for..u haven't used it anywhere??? bit confused.....

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