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Thai Fish Cakes Recipe
Fish Muffins may be so boring and boring. However THAI Fish Muffins are FABULOUS! A basic Thai road meals and my favorite starter at Thai eating places together with Chicken Satay.
Surprisingly simple to make at residence – all you want is fish, pink curry paste, egg, rice flour and fish sauce. Blitz, make patties and pan fry!
Thai fish truffles
If I order an appetiser at a Thai restaurant, 9 occasions out of 10 it can both be Thai Fish Muffins or Thai Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce.
And each of those are irritatingly expensive at Thai eating places for what you get! $7 for 3 piddly little fish truffles or 3 teeny tiny skewers with a midget tub of peanut sauce.
Selfmade is 80% cheaper – and simply pretty much as good as takeout!
Thai Fish Muffins are (in my humble opinion) essentially the most fabulous fish truffles on this planet!
What Thai Fish Muffins style like
The principle flavouring in Thai Fish Muffins is pink curry paste, so should you love Thai Purple Curry, fish and meals made to be eaten with arms, then this has acquired your title written throughout it!
The distinctive factor about these fish truffles is the feel. It’s like Asian fish balls, form of spongey. I do know that sounds totally unappetising, to say they’re “spongey”, however there’s no different phrase I can consider! 😂
It’s not an disagreeable texture, it’s simply completely different to different pattie formed issues like fritters and sausage patties!
What you want
Greatest fish for Thai Fish Muffins
Many of the most typical white fish fillets are nice right here, additionally very tasty with salmon and trout.
Nice for: Ling, Tilapia, Snapper, Barramundi, Silver Dory, John Dory, Basa, Hokki, Perch, Flathead, Monkfish
Keep away from:
- tremendous lean fish (swordfish, tuna)
- delicate fish (flounder, Dover sole)
- small entire fish like sardines or mackerel
The BEST Thai Purple Curry Paste – Maesri
For recipes like this the place you solely want a number of tablespoons of curry paste, I usually use retailer purchased quite than do-it-yourself Purple Curry Paste.
The greatest retailer purchased Thai Purple Curry Paste by an extended shot is a model known as Maesri. That is additionally the model I take advantage of for Thai Inexperienced Curry. Different manufacturers are likely to have much less genuine flavour and are (normally) too candy.
Bought in small cans for round $1.30 (it’s the most cost effective!), it’s accessible in some Aussie giant grocery shops (Coles, Woolies, Harris), Asian grocery shops and right here is the most cost effective one on Amazon US.
**Don’t fear should you can’t discover Maesri. This recipe remains to be nice even with mainstream curry pastes.**
Learn how to make Thai Fish Muffins
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Place fish, pink curry paste (do-it-yourself or retailer purchased), cilantro/coriander, egg, lime juice and fish sauce in a meals processor, whizz to mince;
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Combine in rice or cornflour (cornstarch) and inexperienced beans; and
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Kind patties and prepare dinner.
Easy, proper? Do you actually want me to write down out the entire recipe for you??? (Don’t fear, I did! I all the time do!)
A word on authenticity!
Thai Fish Muffins are a basic Thai road meals that you just’ll discover throughout Thailand, from Bangkok to the favored vacationer islands like Pukhet and Koh Samui (I really want to return quickly, I miss Thailand!!).
Listed here are the two issues I do otherwise to the actual genuine Fish Muffins made in Thailand:
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Inclusion of rice flour – Really genuine recipes are made with fish paste which is starchy fish (sure there’s such factor!) that has been fermented and is a reasonably clean paste. That is then overwhelmed for ages (i.e. half-hour by hand!) to activate the starch and that is the key to fantastically bouncy, spongey fish truffles. Nevertheless, in Western international locations, the identical texture is achieved by beginning with fish fillets, minced them and mixing in both rice flour or cornflour (cornstarch); and
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I don’t deep fry! In each Thailand and eating places, Thai Fish Muffins are deep fried. I actually imagine that little or no compromise is made by pan frying as a substitute of deep frying!
Learn how to serve Thai Fish Muffins
A easy retailer purchased bottle of Candy Chilli Sauce serves nicely as a handy model of the dipping sauces you get at Thai eating places.
By way of what to serve it with, Thai Fish Muffins are usually served as a starter at Thai eating places.
To make a meal out of it, strive these on the facet:
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Steamed Jasmine rice, Thai Fried Rice, Pineapple Fried Rice or Coconut Rice
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Crunchy Asian Slaw on the facet – nice all rounder Asian salad that goes with all Asian meals
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Asian Sesame Dressing for any recent salad or steamed greens
If you happen to strive these Fish Muffins, and I actually hope you do, all it can take is one chew to be overwhelmed by a way of familiarity. These actually do style identical to what you get at Thai eating places! – Johnsat x
Extra Thai takeout favourites
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Pad Thai – really identical to takeout!
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Thai Purple Curry
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Massaman Curry
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Thai Fish Muffins
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Thai Fried Rice
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Thai Cashew Chicken
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Pad See Ew – Thai stir fried noodles
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Browse the Thai recipe assortment
Watch tips on how to make it
Ingredients
- 1 lb / 500g white fish fillets , skinless and pin boned, cut into chunks (Note 1)
- 3 tbsp red curry paste (Note 2)
- 1 tbsp cilantro/coriander leaves , chopped
- 1 tbsp fish sauce (sub soy sauce)
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup (40g) rice flour (or cornstarch / corn flour)
- 6 green beans , finely sliced (optional, Note 3)
- 4 – 6 tbsp oil (vegetable, canola, sun flower)
- Sweet chilli sauce
- Cilantro/coriander leaves
- Lime wedges
Instructions
- Place fish, red curry paste, cilantro/coriander, fish sauce, lime and egg in a food processor. Whizz until the fish is minced and it looks like a paste. (See video)
- Transfer to a bowl and stir through rice flour and green beans until flour is all incorporated. (Note 4)
- Measure 1/4 cup of mixture (I use an ice cream scoop – Note 5), form 1cm / 2/5″ thick patties.
- Heat enough oil in skillet over medium high heat to cover the base (4 tbsp or so)
- Place in oil, cook 2 minutes until deep golden brown, then turn and cook the other side for 2 minutes. Transfer to paper towel lined plate.
- Repeat with remaining mixture, adding more oil into the skillet if required.
- Serve with Sweet Chilli Sauce, garnished with cilantro/coriander leaves and lime wedges on the side. Add a side of Thai Fried Rice or even just plain jasmine rice to make a meal!
Notes
1. Fish – Most of the most common white fish fillets are great here, also works great with salmon and trout.
Great for: Ling, Tilapia, Snapper, Barramundi, Silver Dory, John Dory, Basa, Hokki, Perch, Flathead, Monkfish
Avoid:
super lean fish (swordfish, tuna)
delicate fish (flounder, Dover sole)
small whole fish like sardines or mackerel
Frozen fish – thaw completely, pat dry then use per recipe.
2. Red Curry Paste – Typically for fish cakes, I just use store bought curry paste but you can also use homemade red curry paste but use double the quantity.
My favourite store brand is Maesri which I think tastes the most authentic and also super cheap, $1.25 a can. But any Thai Red Curry Paste will work fine (try to use an Asian brand, they are better!)
3. Beans – The sliced green beans are used in Thai Fish Cakes in Thailand but at restaurants here in Australia, I’ve seen it substituted with sliced shallots/scallions or omitted.
4. Stirring flour in – It’s tempting to just add the rice flour into the food processor but blitzing too long can activate the starch too much which makes the paste gluey and you end up with really tough fish cakes. The length of blitzing time required differs from fish to fish. So I find it’s much safer to stir it in at the end.
5. Ice cream scooper or cookie scooper with a lever to scoop the batter out cleanly are perfect for making these. The standard size is 1/4 cup.
6. Storage – Fridge for 3 days, reheat in the microwave. I’ve never tried freezing but see no reason why it would not freeze well once cooked, you can actually buy frozen fish cakes!
7. Nutrition per fish cake, assuming 12 fish cakes are made and 6 tbsp of oil is used.
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