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Really good Fish Cakes
Recipe video above. You'll find plenty of fish cake recipes floating around. But there are good fish cakes and then there are great fish cakes! The trick is to keep the potato chunky and the fish in big flakes rather than letting it all turn into a mush. Meanwhile, adding garlic, chilli, green onion and thyme to the mix keeps these fish cakes full of flavour!Pan fry then bake for best results. Pan fry golden, then bake to heat all the way through (because I like my fish cakes chunky!) and reheat the first batch you pan fried.
👥 4 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 2h 5m⏳ Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 1h 35m👤 Nagi📖 recipetineats
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- ●bowl
- ●knife
- ●oven
- ●skillet
- ●wooden spoon
- ●pan
📝 Preparation Steps
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Bake potatoes:
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Bake potatoes in a 220°C / 430°F (200°C fan) oven for ⏱️ 75 minutes or until they can be pierced with a knife with no resistance. Cut in half and scoop flesh out into a large bowl.
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Turn oven down to 200°C / 390°F (180°C fan) - fish cakes are finished in the oven.
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Cook fish (while baking potatoes):
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Set a rack over a tray. Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper.
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Melt butter in a large non-stick skillet over medium high heat. Add half the fish and cook, turning, for ⏱️ 4 minutes in total. It should be just cooked inside (ie. flakes easily) but not golden.
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Transfer to rack to cool. Repeat with remaining fish.
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Fish Cake Mixture:
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Sauté garlic: In the same skillet, add garlic, chilli ,thyme and green onion into the leftover butter. Cook for ⏱️ 1 minute until garlic is golden, then pour over the potato, being sure to scrape out every drop of butter!
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Roughly mash potato: Add parsley and salt, then use a wooden spoon to roughly mash the potato. Don't use a potato masher, we want some chunks, not smooth mashed potato.
parsley (, finely chopped)1 tbsp
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Mix in fish: Add fish then gently stir through, breaking it up a bit so you have some nice flakes mixed throughout the potato. Don't mash the fish up too enthusiastically - we want fish chunks!
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Form fish cakes: Scoop out 1/4 cup of mixture. Pack it in firmly, pop out onto hand and shape firmly into a 1.75cm / 2/3" thick cake. The potato will make it hold together, if you press firmly. You should make 13 to 15.
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Crumb and cook:
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Crumb: Coat in flour (shake off excess), dip in egg (let excess drip off) then coat in breadcrumbs, pressing to adhere.
flour1 cup
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Pan fry ⏱️ 3 minutes: Heat oil in skillet over medium high heat. Cook fish cakes in batches for 1 1/⏱️ 2 minutes on each side until golden, then transfer to a paper towel-lined tray. If you're pedantic like me, stand them on their side and roll slowly to cook and make the sides golden too.
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Bake ⏱️ 10 minutes: Remove paper towel from under the fish cakes. Bake for ⏱️ 10 minutes (this heats all the fish cakes all the way through into the middle + reheats the first batch cooked).
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Serve with lemon wedges, tartare sauce, plain mayonnaise (Kewpie!), sour cream, ketchup or tomato sauce.
Nutrition Facts
calories
173 kcal
fat Content
9 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
2 g
sugar Content
1 g
sodium Content
264 mg
protein Content
9 g
trans Fat Content
1 g
cholesterol Content
48 mg
carbohydrate Content
15 g
saturated Fat Content
3 g
unsaturated Fat Content
6 g
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