Fish Cakes with Homemade Tartar Sauce
Ingredients
- .22 kg Cod or other white fish, shredded
- 250 ml All-purpose flour
- 10 ml Baking powder
- 5 ml Sea salt
- 2.5 ml Paprika
- 1 small Onion finely chopped
- 2.5 ml Scotch bonnet pepper minced (or 1/4 tsp scotch bonnet pepper hot sauce)
- 2-3 cloves Ontario garlic finely chopped
- 45 ml Parsley finely chopped
- 2.5 ml Thyme finely chopped
- 45 ml Bell pepper finely chopped
- 1 Egg
- 125 ml Milk or water
- 250 ml Vegetable oil
Instructions
- Shred fish, either by hand or in food processor, and set aside.
- Combine dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt and paprika), and add onion, pepper, garlic, parsley, thyme, bell pepper and egg.
- Mix ingredients with a whisk or fork, about 1 minute. Add milk/water gradually, while stirring.
- Set saute pan to medium-high heat and add oil. Drop spoonfuls of batter into the oil, taking care to not let hot oil splatter. Try to drop batter in the shape of a ball, about 1" (2.5 cm) diameter. Fry for 3 minutes, turning once. Add more oil if necessary, allowing oil to heat up before adding more fritters.
- Drain fritters on paper towel to drain oil. Serve with parsley, lemon wedge and Homemade Tartar sauce.
Notes
For recipe for Tartar Sauce go to Tartar Sauce with Homemade Dill Pickle.