Potato Fish Cake Recipe

For a country surrounded by sea on three sides, our fish consumption is really low. One reason for this is; The decreasing fish population due to illegal fishing has increased fish prices. Although farmed fish offer a small solution to this situation, they can never surpass the taste of a sea fish.

While ready-made, delicious fish are expensive and cheap fish are tasteless; In order to consume them more abundantly and deliciously and to benefit from the benefits of fish; Making fish cakes seems like a reasonable suggestion.

Potato fish cake recipe is a meatball made by blending haddock or salmon with potatoes and flavoring it with aromatics. The British also call this recipe fish cake.

If you serve potato meatballs with tartar sauce, you will make your eaters much happier.

How to Make Potato Fish Cake Recipe?

• Peel the potatoes, chop them into small pieces and place them in a pot. Add enough water and some salt to cover them. When it starts to boil, reduce the heat and cook for about 15 minutes.
• Place the fish in a pan with milk and bay leaves. Keep the heat high until it boils, when it starts to boil, reduce the heat and cook like this for 10 minutes.
• Drain the water from the boiled potatoes and mash them. Add all the spices into it.
• After the potatoes are thoroughly mixed with spices and herbs, add the fish by cutting it into pieces.
• Mix the fish with mashed potatoes without mashing it too much.
• Flour your hands and the counter and take pieces of the fish mixture. Make circles about 1 finger thick and 2.5 cm in diameter.
• Beat the egg and coat all the meatballs first in the egg and then in the stale bread crumbs and put them in the refrigerator to rest for 30 minutes.
• Heat the oil thoroughly. Fry the fish cakes until golden brown.
• Remove the excess oil from the fried meatballs by placing them on paper towels and prepare them for service.