Time for me to join the ranks of the budding chefs on OcUK and add my simple but effective recipe for others to try!
Now I'm by far no match for the likes of Jonny69/similar but here goes!
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Now I'm by far no match for the likes of Jonny69/similar but here goes!
For this, you will need -
- ~200g of fresh fish, more if you like them fishy, less if you don't. I bought some Smoked Haddock from Asda's fish counter and it was lovely, cost about £2 which wasn't bad.
- 1 egg
- ~75ml milk for egg, small extra amount for the fish
- Small amount of butter
- Some flour, have to use your own judgement for this later
- 4 slices of bread
- ~800g of potatoes
- Boil the potatoes, then mash them - adding only salt & pepper. Adding butter & milk will result in the fish cakes becoming sloppy and falling apart when cooking later!
- Whilst the potatoes are boiling, take the 4 pieces of bread and break them up into small bits. Afterwards, put them in a blender (may have to do this in a few times) until they're nice and small as shown in Figure 1.
- Next, take your chosen fish, cut in half and fry in a small frying pan with a small drop of cooking oil and some milk. Place some butter on top of each slice of fish (Fig. 2) and a some pepper if desired. Cook for no more than 2 minutes on a low heat!
- Beat the egg with the 75ml of milk and arrange the breadcrumbs, egg & milk mixture and flour as shown in Figure 3.
- By now, the fish and potatoes should be ready. Mash the potatoes with some salt and pepper and any other spices/herbs if desired. Cut up the fish into small pieces and add to the mash potato, mixing in with a fork (don't mash in the fish!).
- Here's the first messy bit! Use your hands to make small balls out of the fish/mash mixture, about the size of a small orange depending on how many you are making (Fig. 4).
- Now, going back to the flour/egg/breadcrumb arrangement, dip each fish-mash ball into the flour, followed by the egg, and then the breadcrumbs. Make sure that the egg is completely covered in breadcrumbs! Flatten out the fish cakes as shown in Figure 5.
- Stick them in a hot, large frying pan with lots of oil so that they don't burn and cook for a minute or so until brown (Fig. 6).
- Serve with a side salad and any sauce that you choose! I picked some mayonnaise and some sweet chili sauce which was perfect (Fig. 7)!
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