Hi, Ray here again.
It’s been too long time since I’ve tried a fish recipe from the Curry Focus website. Eating fish is supposed to be good for you so I thought it was time to be good to myself. I read thru the fish recipes and went for the Spicy Fish Cakes recipe. It has been a long time I’ve eaten fish cakes and I was looking forward to making this simple recipe.
I bought some average road white fish and didn’t need to buy anything else except for the spring onions (scallions).
I precooked the fish whilst the potatoes were cooking. I mashed up the potatoes and left them, and the fish, for a while to let them cool down.
I rinsed and chopped the spring onions and fresh cilantro and prepared the ginger and garlic while the fish and mashed potatoes were cooling.
This is a very easy dish to make.
Everything was ready 30 minutes before the scheduled eating time so I relaxed for a while with a beer.
Soon it was time to make the fish cakes so I mixed everything together, including the first egg.
I made 16 equal sized balls from the mixture. I know that the said 20 but the ones that I made were pretty much the same size so I went with the 16.
Before too long, I was dipping the balls into the beaten egg, flattening them into cakes and covering them with breadcrumbs.
The diners arrived just as I finished making the fish cakes so I kept going and cooked them. I had already started to preheat the oven so that I could keep the cooked cakes warm whilst I was making another batch.
I heated up the oil in my favourite frying pan and cooked the fish cakes in batches of four at a time. When the batch was cooked, I put them on some kitchen paper, started cooking the next batch of fish cakes and then dabbed the excess oil off the cooked fish cakes before keeping them in the oven to keep warm.
Before too long, the fish cakes were ready and I served them with raita, that I had made earlier and roti, that I had bought earlier.
The fish cakes were excellent, if I say so myself. They had a good firm texture, were well cooked and, most important of all, had a great taste. They had a mild spice heat. Everyone enjoyed the fish cakes and they received an excellent score of 7.5 out of 10.
If you like fish cakes then do try this recipe – I’m sure that you won’t be disappointed.