Fish cakes - 10 delicious recipes

Fish fried in vegetable oil is a simple dish and gets boring pretty quickly. Fish cakes are a great alternative. This delicate, aromatic, incredibly tasty and dietary dish that saturates the body for a long time, goes well with a variety of side dishes and sauces.

Pollock fish cakes in a pan - a step by step recipe

You are offered a delicious, uncomplicated, quick and, most importantly, universal recipe for fish cakes made from pollock. You can replace it with any other fish. So that there are no bones, we prepare fish fillet cutlets.

Cooking time - 1 hour.

Servings - 4

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  We wash the pollock fillet with cold water and dry. Then cut into medium pieces. Peel the onion and divide it into two parts.
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  Chop half of the onion into small pieces and fry until transparent in heated sunflower oil. It will give the cutlets a special sweetness and taste.
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  We twist the pollock together with the second half of the onion in a meat grinder with a medium wire rack.
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  Soak slices of white bread in warm water. Then we squeeze them well and put them in the minced fish. We also add a chicken egg, chopped fresh dill and fried onions to the minced meat.
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  Sprinkle the minced meat with salt and black pepper and knead well by hand.
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  With hands dipped in cold water, or using a spoon, we make beautiful identical cutlets from minced meat.
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  Pour bread crumbs in a saucer and roll each cutlet in them. It turns out beautifully.
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  Fry the cutlets in well-heated sunflower oil until golden brown on both sides. We fry over medium heat and can be covered with a lid.
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  You have crispy fish cakes. Add potatoes or rice to them as a side dish and serve.

Eat to your health!

A simple recipe for fish cakes in the oven

We bring to your attention an original recipe for fish cutlets, cooked not in a frying pan, but baked in the oven. They are not cooked in oil, and oatmeal is added to the minced meat, so the dish will be dietary and even children will like.

Ingredients:

• Fish fillet - 0.5 kg.
• Oat flakes - ½ tbsp.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Milk - ½ tbsp.
• Pepper and salt to taste.

Cooking process:

1. We clean the onion and cut it into several pieces.
2. Pour the oatmeal into a cup and fill it with warm milk to swell.
3. We wash the fish fillets with cold water, dry them with a towel and cut them into pieces.
4. We twist the fish and onion in a meat grinder with a medium wire rack.
5. Break the chicken egg into the resulting minced fish, transfer the oatmeal, drain the remaining milk from them, sprinkle salt and pepper to taste.
6. Mix the minced meat well. If the minced meat turned out to be watery, then add 2-3 tbsp to it. l. flour.
7. With hands dipped in water or vegetable oil, form small cutlets from minced meat and roll them in breadcrumbs.
8. Place the cutlets on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
9. We bake the cutlets in the oven at 200 ° C for 30-40 minutes.
10. We prepare any side dish and sour cream-garlic sauce with fresh herbs for this dish.
11. We lay out the cutlets beautifully on plates and serve.

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Diet steamed fish cakes in a slow cooker

This recipe is intended for people in need of special dietary nutrition, as well as for small children. It does not use oil, rice or other additives. Minced meat can be made from both red fish and inexpensive varieties - hake, pollock and cod.

Ingredients:

• Fish fillet - 0.8 kg.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• White bread - 6 pieces.
• Onions - 2 pcs.
• Milk - ½ tbsp.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

1. In a separate bowl, soak pieces of white bread in milk, cutting off the crust from them.
2. Peel the onions and cut them into pieces. If you have ready-made minced fish, then chop the onion very finely.
3. Rinse the fish fillets and chop together with the onions in a meat grinder or in a blender bowl. The fish can be cut into very small pieces with a knife, the cutlets will be tastier in this case.
4. Squeeze the excess liquid from the minced meat with your hands.
5. Put soaked and squeezed white bread into the minced meat, beat in an egg, sprinkle with salt and pepper to your liking. If the minced meat is still watery, add a couple of tablespoons of semolina or starch to it.
6. Mix the minced meat well until smooth.
7. Shape the minced meat into small patties.
8. When steaming them, you do not need to roll them in breadcrumbs.
9. Pour a glass of water into the multicooker bowl, put a laurel leaf and a few peppercorns and place a special wire rack.
10. Place all cutlets on the wire rack.
11. Cook the patties on the "Stew" mode for half an hour.
12. Serve these tender, light fish cakes with a side dish and fresh vegetable salad.

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A simple and delicious recipe for cod cutlets

In this recipe, you are invited to cook cod meat cutlets. The meat of this fish is white, dense and does not contain small bones. The cutlets will be tender and without a pronounced fishy taste and smell. For cooking, take cod steaks and be sure to remove all liquid after defrosting.

Ingredients:

• Cod steaks - 1 kg.
• White bread - 3 slices
• Onions - 2 pcs.
• Flour - 4 tbsp. l.
• Salt and pepper to taste.
• Sunflower oil for frying.

Cooking process:

1. Place the cod steaks in a colander and bowl and refrigerate overnight so that they defrost during this time and all the liquid is in the glass bowl.
2. Peel the onions and cut into medium pieces.
3. For white bread or loaf, remove the crust and soak in warm water.
4. Remove the skins and backbones from the thawed fish.
5. Use a blender or meat grinder to cook minced fish while chopping onions with it.
6. Salt the minced meat, sprinkle with pepper to your liking and add well-squeezed white bread to it.
7. Mix the minced meat well with your hands.
8. Then, wetting your hands with cold water, form beautiful identical cutlets out of it.
9. Be sure to roll the cutlets in flour or breadcrumbs.
10. Fry the patties in hot sunflower oil for 3-4 minutes on each side. In order for the cutlets to be well fried, it is advisable to turn them over several times.
11. Prepare sour cream sauce with fresh herbs for such cutlets and serve with any side dish.

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Step-by-step recipe for making pike cutlets

These cutlets are a delicacy dish, because pike cannot always be bought in a store. According to this recipe, you will get very tasty fish cakes that will not have a specific smell of mud. You are offered the secret Astrakhan recipe for pike cutlets. The hardest part of the recipe is to carefully cut the fish carcasses.

Ingredients:

• Pike fillet - 1.5 kg.
• Loaf without crust - 1 pc.
• Onions - 3-4 pcs.
• Egg - 3 pcs.
• Milk - ½ tbsp.
• Salt and spices to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Peel the onions and cut them into pieces.
2. Cut the loaf without a crust into pieces and soak in warm milk.
3. Chop pike meat separated from the seeds together with onions in a blender bowl or in a meat grinder.
4. Put the squeezed loaf into the minced meat, break the eggs into it, add salt and spices to your taste and mix everything well.
5. From the minced meat obtained, form oblong cutlets with your hands and roll them in bread crumbs.
6. Fry the cutlets in well-heated sunflower oil until golden brown on both sides.
7. Then these cutlets need to be stewed, since the pike meat may not be fried.
8. To do this, pour some water mixed with sour cream or tomato paste into a separate saucepan. Place cutlets in it and simmer until the water is completely evaporated from the pan.
9. Serve with any side dish and fresh vegetable salad.

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Pink salmon fish cakes

Fish cutlets of this variety conquer everyone with their palette of taste. In addition, this fish contains many trace elements and vitamins, which are very important in the diet. To make the pink salmon cutlets tasty, you need to twist the fish (preferably fillet) in a meat grinder, cool the minced meat before cooking, add pork bacon to the minced meat, and the cutlets must be breaded before frying.

Ingredients:

• Pink salmon fillet - 1.2 kg.
• Pork bacon - 300 g.
• Baton - 1 pc.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 3-4 cloves.
• Salt, pepper and herbs to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the fish fillets with cold water and dry with a towel. Cut it into medium pieces.
2. Cut the crust off the loaf and soak it in warm water.
3. Peel the garlic and chop the fresh herbs.
4. Twist the fish fillets in a meat grinder, alternating with a squeezed loaf, pieces of pork bacon and garlic.
5. Add the egg, chopped greens and salt and pepper to the resulting minced meat.
6. Stir the minced meat and beat it several times. This will greatly improve the taste of the cutlets.
7. With hands dipped in cold water, form beautiful patties and roll them well in breadcrumbs. They can be replaced with flour or starch.
8. Fry the patties until golden brown in well-heated vegetable oil.

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A quick and easy recipe for canned fish cutlets

Delicious fish cakes can be made quickly with canned fish. This dish is not only tasty, but affordable and simple, as there is no need to process fish or fillets. These cutlets can be stored for a long time. You can change the final taste by adding vegetables, rice, buckwheat and spices to the cutlets. For such cutlets, canned salmon, tuna, saury and sardines are well suited. Try breeding these patties in corn flour for an interesting taste.

Ingredients:

• Canned fish - 2 cans.
• Eggs - 3-4 pcs.
• Onions - 2 pcs.
• White bread - 4-5 slices.
• Spices to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Hard boil the eggs, refrigerate, peel and cut into small cubes.
2. Soak white bread slices in warm milk or water and squeeze them out.
3. Peel the onion and chop it finely. You can fry the onion in a little oil.
4. Open the cans of canned food, drain the juice, transfer the fish to a bowl and grind them with a fork, just not with a blender.
5. Add pressed bread, chopped eggs, onions and spices to the fish.
6. Mix the minced meat well.
7. Use your hands to form small cutlets from the minced meat and roll them in any breading.
8. Fry the cutlets until golden brown. For children, you can steam them.
9. Serve the patties with any side dish and fresh vegetable salad.

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Fish cakes with rice

In this recipe, you are invited to cook fish cutlets with the addition of rice. With this dish, you can diversify your daily menu without spending a lot of effort and money. The specific fishy taste is well removed by adding fresh dill, nutmeg and lemon juice to the minced meat, and the cream will make your cutlets very tender. We take boiled rice. It is better to cook such cutlets from white fish.

Ingredients:

• Fish (pollock, cod or hake) - 0.6 kg.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Boiled rice - 5 tbsp. l.
• White bread - 4 slices
• Lemon juice - 1 tspl.
• Salt, herbs and spices to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse fish for cutlets well with cold water and remove the ridge with small bones.
2. Peel the onion.
3. Wash and finely chop green dill or any other spicy herbs.
4. Soak the loaf slices in warm water and squeeze them out.
5. Using a meat grinder or blender, grind the fish and onions into a homogeneous mince.
6. Beat an egg into the minced meat, add squeezed bread, chopped herbs, boiled rice and sprinkle with spices and salt to your liking.
7. Sprinkle the minced meat with lemon juice and stir well.
8. Leave the minced meat for a while so that the fish is saturated with the aroma of spices.
9. Form small round patties with wet hands, bread them in any breading and sauté in hot oil until crispy golden brown.
10. Serve pasta, stewed vegetables or boiled potatoes with these cutlets.

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Delicate and delicious fish cakes with semolina

In this recipe, you are invited to cook fish cutlets with semolina. Semolina retains the shape of cutlets well, so they can be fried in a pan, baked in the oven, steamed or in any sauce. To preserve the juiciness of such cutlets, a little bread is added to the minced fish.

Ingredients:

• Fish fillet - 0.5 kg.
• Semolina - 2 tbsp. l.
• Egg, onion and carrot - 1 pc.
• White bread - 2 slices
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the finished fish fillet or cut fish carcass and cut into pieces.
2. Peel the onion and carrots.
3. Soak slices of bread in water and squeeze.
4. Grind all these products in a meat grinder or in a blender bowl. Carrots can be grated on a fine grater.
5. Break the egg into the minced meat, salt the minced meat and sprinkle with black and red pepper to your liking.
6. Pour semolina into the minced meat and stir. If the minced meat is crumbly (it depends on the type of fish), pour a few tablespoons of water to it.
7. Then beat the minced meat several times so that it becomes tight and homogeneous.
8. Place the minced meat in the refrigerator for half an hour so that the semolina swells and can keep the shape of the cutlets well.
9. Shape the minced meat into round or oblong cutlets with wet hands and sprinkle them with flour or ground breadcrumbs.
10. Fry the patties in hot oil until crisp and golden on both sides.
11. Serve with baked vegetables, rice or buckwheat.

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Step-by-step recipe for making cutlets from river fish

Small river fish (crucian carp, roach) are very tasty, but they contain many small bones. Cutlets are prepared from boiled fish and fresh. According to the proposed recipe, you can cook cutlets from fresh fish and almost seedless.

Ingredients:

• Small river fish - 1 kg.
• Onions - 2 pcs.
• Garlic - 2 cloves.
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Semolina - 1 tbsp. l.
• White bread - 4 slices
• Pepper and salt to taste.

Cooking process:

4. Remove entrails and heads with tails and fins from fish.
5. Rinse the fish well with cold water.
6. To prepare pitted minced fish, twist the fish in a meat grinder. Then unscrew the meat grinder (the bones remain on the inner surface of the meat grinder), rinse and collect again.
7. Re-twist the minced meat along with the onion, garlic and fresh lard.
8. Add the egg, soaked and squeezed white bread, semolina to the minced meat.
9. Sprinkle the minced meat to your liking with salt and pepper and mix well.
10. Form small cutlets from minced meat and sprinkle with breadcrumbs or flour. If the minced meat is not tight, then the cutlets can be formed using a spoon.
11. Fry the patties in hot vegetable oil until golden brown on both sides.
12. Serve river fish cutlets with boiled rice or corn.

Bon Appetit!