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Thai Fish Cakes with Cucumber Salad (serves 2)
Added by hoppershaun | Wed 28 Jan 2009 @ 12:03
Ingredients
300g skinless white fish fillets, i.e• cod, haddock etc.
2 eggs, beaten
1 tbsp red curry paste
zest of 1 lime
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp cornflour
2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp coriander, chopped
50g green beans, chopped
3 tbsp groundnut oil
FOR THE SALAD
half a cucumber, peeled, deseeded and thinly sliced
2 tbsp fish sauce, juice of 1 lime, 1 tbsp water, 2 tbsp sugar
2 red chillis, deseeded and finely sliced
1 banana shallot, thinly sliced
Method
1.First make the salad. In a bowl, combine the fish sauce, lime juice, water and sugar. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Add the cucumber, chilli and shallots and mix well. Leave to stand for at least 20 minutes.
2.Cut the fish fillets into 1 inch squares. Put the fish, eggs and curry paste into a blender and pulse until it is blended to a smooth paste. Scrape into a bowl and then fold in the lime zest, fish sauce, cornflour, sugar, coriander and green beans.
3.On a floured surface, shape the mixture into round, flat patties approx. 2-3 inches in diameter. The mixture should make 6 fish cakes.
4.Heat a wok or frying pan with the oil over a medium-high heat. When hot, fry the fish cakes approx. 3 minutes each side, or until cooked through. Drain on kitchen paper and then serve with the cucumber salad.
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As part of finger food "send out the platters", made this into cocktail sized cakes for a party of 40 with the salad diced, just tripled the recipe. Too popular. Barely got one myself. Yes a wet mixture with basa fillets but spooned into flour; quite manageable. Try adding finely chopped new lime leaves if you have no limes.
I've made this recipe twice, both times with frozen fish. The first time, I let it defrost and drain overnight, and added quite a bit of flour to try and dry it out. I wasn't able to get the raw mix into patties, but ended up frying it more like a dumpling mix. It came out alright - a bit doughey from adding too much flour. The second time I defrosted 24 hours before I was going to make it, and drained it for a day before making the mix. Again, it was too wet to make into patties, but still useable. I didn't add any flour the second time, and they came out good.
Mixture was very wet and I did not use frozen fish - but the taste was delicious
This is an absolutely amazing recipe. Simple and delicious. Remember to drain the fish first if you use frozen fish though - otherwise the mixture becomes too wet.
Just made this with leftover meat from whole fish cooked on BBQ the night before... Turned out to be a great way to use leftover fish which would usually be wasted.
i used this recipe for an exam i9n college and it was lovely turned out great