Fish cakes are small fried or stewed patties in a sauce. They are fast to prepare and often cost-effective due to the small and inexpensive set of ingredients.
On top of that, these healthy bits for the body turn out to be very juicy, lush and satisfying. To prepare them, take fresh or canned fish, the fillet of which can be chopped with a meat grinder, finely chopped or chopped with a knife.
Serve such meatballs with fresh, stewed or fried vegetables.
Fish balls - general principles of cooking
You can cook meatballs from fresh or canned fish. Any kind of fish is suitable, but more often the dish is prepared from pollock, cod or haddock. Fresh fish must first be cleaned of the skin, bones and head. Then wash and wipe with paper towels. Prepared fillet should be chopped with onion. It is better to put canned fish in a plate and knead with a fork.
In order to make the meatballs lush, boiled cereal, raw potatoes or wheat bread are added to the minced meat, which must first be soaked in milk or cream.
Mandatory ingredients for meatballs are also: chicken egg, salt and pepper. All components are mixed together with the minced meat, and then the meatballs are formed.
Fry the meatballs in any oil. They can also be steamed or baked.
Fish cakes - a classic recipe
Ingredients:
• vegetable oil;
• 600 g of minced fish or fish fillet;
• one onion;
• 70 g of milk;
• one chicken egg;
• salt;
• 150 g of wheat stale bread;
• 30 g of wheat flour;
• ground pepper.
Cooking method:
1. Divide the bread with your hands into several pieces, place in a bowl and pour milk. Leave it to soak for 10 minutes.
2. At the bulb, cut off the neck and the bottom, remove the dry scales, wash and chop arbitrarily coarsely.
3. Wash the egg, towel, and, breaking the shell, pour the egg into a glass or cup.
4. Through a meat grinder, mince fish or fillet in a large container, then onion and bread along with milk.
5. Add salt, ground pepper, egg and sifted flour to the resulting stuffing, knead well.
6. Next, the mince must be beaten off a little. To do this, take all the minced meat in your hands and quietly throw it back into the bowl. And so two or three times. Allow the meat to "rest" for several minutes.
7. Form the meatballs and fry them in a heated frying pan with oil on both sides for several minutes until cooked.
8. Serve hot with your favorite sauce and side dish.
Fish chops with rice and herbs
Ingredients:
• 250 g fillet of pollock;
• 250 g haddock fillet;
• one onion;
• one raw chicken egg;
• 300 ml of milk;
• 30 g of rice groats;
• salt;
• a pair of twigs of parsley and mint;
• a few leaves of fresh sorrel;
• ground black pepper;
• 150 ml of boiled water.
Cooking method:
1. Wash the fish fillet with cold water, remove excess, dry and chop randomly.
2. Peel, wash, and chop coarsely.
3. Sort parsley, peppermint and sorrel, soak in water for a few minutes, then rinse and air dry. Then grind all the greens into gruel with a blender or chop finely with a sharp knife.
4. Rinse and cook rice. Remove the boiled rice from the broth without washing.
5. Grind the fish fillet and onion through a meat grinder. Add the egg, salt, prepared greens, pepper and rice to the minced meat obtained in this way. Mix everything and beat the mince.
6. Pour water and milk into the saucepan and turn on the heat.
7. Using minced hands or two tablespoons, form small meatballs and put them in a saucepan with boiling milk broth. Simmer until tender.
8. Serve with mashed potatoes or horns, watering with milk sauce.
Fish Chips with Potatoes
Ingredients:
• one medium potato;
• 280 g of minced fish;
• bunch of green onion feathers;
• breadcrumbs;
• 30 g of heavy cream;
• one raw chicken egg;
• salt;
• vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Wash the potatoes, peel them and wash them again. Put in a container of water for a while.
2. Sort green onions, while removing yellowed and sluggish specimens, wash under running water and grind into pulp using a blender. But you can chop the onions with very small rings too.
3. Wash the egg, slightly wipe it with a towel, break the shell and pour the egg into a bowl.
4. In the minced fish add the egg, previously grated potatoes, gruel from green onions, cream and salt. Stir the minced meat, beat it off a bit and leave it to rest for 2-3 minutes.
5. Form with hands or two tablespoons of the meatballs, pan in breadcrumbs and immediately fry in oil on both sides until tender. In this case, after the first turning of the meatballs in the pan, the heating should be slightly reduced, and the pan should be closed with a lid.
6. Serve fish balls with vegetable salad or pickles.
Chips fish in Odessa
Ingredients:
• 250 g of herring;
• one raw egg;
• a bunch of dill (you can frozen);
• 35 g of wheat flour;
• salt;
• black pepper peas;
• vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Clean the salaku from the insides, remove the head and rinse well. Then pull out the spine with the rib bones to get a clean boneless fillet. Cut the resulting fillet into a small dice.
2. Sift the flour into a bowl.
3. Wash the egg.
4. Grind black pepper in a mortar.
5. Wash the dill and finely chop.
6. Beat the egg slightly with a whisk until smooth, add salt, dill, pepper and flour. Beat again. Add chopped fillet and mix.
7. Spread the mass of minced meat in a frying pan with a tablespoon of heated oil. Fry on both sides for 6-7 minutes. If necessary, cover the pan with a lid.
8. Serve the prepared meatballs with garlic sauce and bread, sprinkled with chopped dill.
Sprats fish balls in tomato with buckwheat
Ingredients:
• 200 g of sprats in tomato;
• 30 g of buckwheat;
• one raw chicken egg;
• 20 g semolina;
• one small carrot;
• salt;
• vegetable oil;
• breadcrumbs.
Cooking method:
1. Sort buckwheat, rinse, add water, add salt and bring to a boil. After that, cook it for 5 minutes, then close the lid and turn off the heat. Leave to swell.
2. Remove the sprat from the jar, mashed in mashed potatoes.
3. Peel, wash and chop the carrots on a fine grater.
4. Cook the minced meat. To do this, mix the sprat puree, carrots, semolina, egg, salt. Add the finished buckwheat. Mix.
5. Form the meatballs, bread them in breadcrumbs and fry on both sides until they are rosy.
6. Serve portionwise with chopped vegetables and croutons.
Fish Chips in Cream Cheese Sauce
Ingredients:
• 300 g haddock fillet;
• 40 g of fat cream;
• 120 g of wheat stale bread;
• one medium onion;
• salt;
• ground black pepper;
• one raw egg;
• 300 ml of milk;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 30 g of processed cheese;
• 20 g butter;
• a pinch of nutmeg;
• some greens of mint, parsley and dill;
• vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Wash the haddock fillet, cut into arbitrary pieces.
2. Peel, wash, chop coarsely.
3. Soak the bread in cream for 15 minutes.
4. Slices of fish, onions and bread along with cream through a meat grinder. Stuff the minced meat with salt, ground black pepper, add the egg. Mix. Beat off. Leave on for a few minutes.
5. Soak greens in water, rinse, dry a little and finely chop.
6. Prepare the sauce. To do this, melt the butter in a pan or in a small saucepan. Add milk, nutmeg, salt and bring to a boil.
7. Form small meatballs from the minced meat and quickly fry them on both sides in a frying pan with oil under high heat.
8. Then pour the meatballs in the sauce and simmer over moderate heat for several minutes.
9. Grind hard and processed cheese on a grater and mix with herbs.
10. 7-10 minutes before the meatballs are ready, sprinkle them with cheese and herbs.
11. Serve with any side dish.
Oven fish pollock and vegetables in the oven
Ingredients:
• two fillet pieces of pollock;
• one egg;
• one small carrot;
• 120 g pumpkin;
• one red onion;
• sunflower oil (you can use olive);
• basil;
• salt;
• half a glass of rice;
• an incomplete glass of vegetable broth (you can chicken).
Cooking method:
1. Cut the fish into pieces, rinse, dry and grind in a blender until minced.
2. Boil rice in water with salt. Drain and add grits to the fish.
3. Peel and finely chop the onion. Grate pumpkin and carrots through a fine grater.
4. Fry the vegetables in oil, until transparent, stirring constantly.
5. Combine vegetables with minced fish, dried basil, egg, salt and rice.
6. Mix everything and form the meatballs with wet hands. Then put them in a baking dish and pour the vegetable broth.
7. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for at least 35 minutes.
8. Serve with fresh vegetables.
Fish Chips - Tricks and Tips
• If you prefer a dietary option of meatballs, then cook the dish for a couple.
• If you make small meatballs, you can cook them in the soup like meatballs.
• To make the meatballs even softer, add some water to the pan during cooking.
• For juiciness, add a little butter to the minced fish.
• You can also add pumpkin, eggplant or zucchini to the minced meat for meatballs.
• To make the meatballs crispy on the outside, roll them in flour or breadcrumbs.
• To serve the meatballs, you can separately prepare the tomato and garlic sauce.
