Fish Cakes
My starting ingredients:
For fish cake:
- White Fish, 500 g
- Potatoes, 400 g boiled for about 20 minutes
- Onion, 1 finely diced
- Carrot, 1 finely diced
- Dill, 1 bunch diced
- Butter, about 1 tablespoon
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- Oil
Fish cake coating/breading:
- Flour, seasoned with turmeric, paprika, salt and pepper
- Egg, 1
- Breadcrumbs
Gently fry the onion in a pan. Youll note that I used a pot.
After 1 2 minutes, add the carrot and cook for a further 2 minutes.
Transfer the vegetables to a bowl with the potatoes.
Season with salt, pepper and the butter. Mix the vegetables together. I used a fork so that I would have lumpy potato bits.
Because Im a fairly lazy cook, I used the same pot that I used to fry the veg in for this next step.
Add about ½ cup water to the pot and place the fish inside.
Gently poach on a low simmer for about 3 4 minutes, or until the fish is just cooked.
Flake the poached fish into the vegetable mix.
Chop the dill finely
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and add to the mix. Combine all ingredients and refrigerate for about 2 hours.
Form equal sized balls from the mixture. I made about 9.
Mix the flour with the paprika, turmeric, salt and pepper. You could add any spice you like (or none at all); but these were what I reached for in my pantry.
Flatten each ball to form a pattie and coat with the flour.
Dip in the beaten egg
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and then coat with the breadcrumbs.
Continue coating until finished.
Heat some oil in a pan on low/medium heat.
Fry for about 2 3 minutes on each side.
I was serving these with some oven wedges; so I placed the fish cakes in the oven to keep warm. The breading turned out softer than I wanted. Next time, I will cook on low heat on the stove for about 4 - 5 minutes on each side.
My dinner! Served with sweet chilli sauce.
NOTE: The fish cake mix was a little soft for my liking. Next time, Im going to add ½ - 1 cup of breadcrumbs to the mix before coating it. It might firm up the pattie somewhat.