Smoked snoek fish cakes
| Serves: | makes 8 to 12 fish cakes |
| Cooking Time: | 15 minutes |
| Prep Time: | 45 minutes |
Ingredients
- 500g smoked snoek, de-boned and flaked
- 4 red onion, thinly sliced
- 5 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 kg potatoes, peeled, cooked and roughly mashed
- 3 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 cup fresh parsley, finely chopped
- 1 lemons,half juiced and zested
- pepper, to taste
- salt, to taste
- flour seasoned with salt & pepper, for dusting
- 2 extra-large free range eggs, beaten
- Dijon mustard
- 1 Tbsp apricot jam or preserve
- 15 ml canola oil, plus extra for greasing
- 4 Tbsp gherkins, finely chopped
- 2 Tbsp capers, roughly chopped
- 2 Tbsp dried apricots, soaked in hot water for 10 minutes and then finely chopped
- 3 Tbsp parsley, chopped
- salad, to serve
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Cooking Instructions
- To make the fish cakes, fry the onion and garlic in olive oil until soft and translucent. Allow to cool slightly.
- In a large bowl, combine the smoked snoek, cooked potatoes, onion mixture, smoked paprika, parsley and the juice of 1 lemon. Add salt and pepper to taste and mix well. Check the seasoning and adjust.
- Form handfuls of the mixture into fish cakes and dust with the seasoned flour.
- Place on a greased tray and refrigerate for 20 to 30 minutes.
- In the meanwhile, make the tartar sauce. In a blender, combine the egg yolks, mustard, the remaining lemon juice, apricot jam and salt. Blend for 30 seconds.
- With the blender running, slowly pour in the canola oil. If the mayo gets a bit thick, you can add a few tablespoons of water before continuing with adding the oil.
- Taste the mayo and adjust the seasoning.
- Add the chopped gherkins, capers, apricots and parsley and adjust the seasoning again.
- To cook the fish cakes, heat canola oil in a large frying pan and fry the cakes until golden brown on both sides.
- Drain on kitchen paper and serve with the tartar sauce and salad.
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