Thai Style Fish Cakes and Dipping Sauce

Submitted by bevs kitchen

"Simple food."

 

• Ready In: 12mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• DIPPING SAUCE

• 1 lime
• 2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce
• 2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce
• 2 tablespoons light soy sauce

• FISH CAKES

• 500 g haddock or 500 g white fish fillets
• 50 g desiccated coconut
• 3 spring onions
• 1 teaspoon lemongrass, in oil, chopped
• 1 cm ginger
• 3 tablespoons fresh coriander, chopped
• 1 large red chili
• 3 tablespoons plain flour
• 4 tablespoons oil

directions

1. Zest and juice the lime.
2. Peel and grate ginger.
3. Chop spring onions.
4. Deseed and chop red chili.

5. DIPPING SAUCE:

6. Mix juice of lime, thai fish sauce, sweet chili sauce, and soy sauce.
7. This is the dipping sauce for fish cakes.

8. FISH CAKES:

9. Whiz fish and coconut in a processor. Place this mixture into a bowl.
10. Mix the lime zest, chopped onion, lemongrass, ginger, coriander, chili, salt and pepper into the fish mixture.
11. With damp hands make 16 small cakes or 8 large cakes.
12. Coat both sides in the flour.
13. Heat the oil until very hot; fry on each side for 1 minute.
14. Enjoy your fish cakes and sauce.