Thai Smoked Salmon Fish Cakes
These Thai Smoked Salmon Fish Cakes are incredibly delicious. Seasoned beautifully and topped with a chilli, ginger & lime dipping sauce, you’re going to want to eat these all year round.
Ingredients
For the cakes
75g French beans, finely sliced
200g Cornish Smoked Salmon
1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
4 spring onions, trimmed and finely chopped
1 tbsp freshly grated ginger
grated zest of one lime
1 tbsp chopped coriander
75g fresh white breadcrumbs
1 tbsp mayonnaise
1 egg, beaten
sunflower oil for frying
For the dipping sauce
5 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
2 red chillies, roughly chopped
6cm piece ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
2 dried kaffir lime leaves
1 stalk lemongrass, trimmed and roughly chopped
2 tbsp chopped coriander
175g caster sugar
50ml rice wine vinegar
1 tbsp fish sauce or lime juice
1 tbsp soy sauce
Method
Step 1
To make the dipping sauce, blend the garlic, chillies, ginger, lime leaves, lemongrass and coriander in a food processor until very finely chopped. Tip the sugar into a small saucepan, add 3 tbsp water and heat gently to dissolve. Continue to cook for another min or so until the syrup starts to thicken slightly.
Step 2
Add the chilli and ginger mixture, and continue to cook for a further 2-3 mins. Then stir in the rice vinegar, fish sauce and soy sauce. Remove from the heat and leave to cool to room temperature.
Step 3
Cook the beans in a small pan of boiling salted water for 1-2 mins until tender. Drain and refresh under cold running water, then leave to dry on kitchen paper. Mix the crab with the cooked beans and all the remaining ingredients, apart from the sunflower oil. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and shape into 8 small patties.
Step 4
Heat 1-2 tbsp sunflower oil in a frying pan and cook 4 crab cakes at a time until golden brown on both sides. Remove from the pan and keep warm while you cook the remainder. Serve with the sweet chilli dipping sauce.
Shop Ingredients
W Harvey & Sons Cornish Smoked Salmon
With thanks to Truro and Penwith College students
These recipes have been created by the level 2 Professional Cookery students from Truro and Penwith College. Usually working in the college’s popular restaurant Senara, the students devised their own dishes using the fresh shellfish and seafood sold by W. Harvey & Sons both online and in its Newlyn shop.
Working together proved to be such a success that W. Harvey & Sons and the college have agreed to form a long-standing partnership to continue to provide the same opportunity for students going forward.
The Hospitality and Catering division of the college offers courses covering Food and Beverage Service and Professional Cookery, from levels one to three, with an additional level three certification in Patisserie and Confectionary. It works closely with the Paul Ainsworth Academy as well as other companies that specialise in the food industry.
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