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Thai fish cakes with sweet dipping sauce

An average of 4.3 out of 5 stars from 3 ratings
Thai fish cakes with sweet dipping sauce
Prepare
30 mins to 1 hour
Cook
less than 10 mins
Serve
Makes 18-20

You can make your own Thai red curry paste for these fish cakes if you wish but you can get away with a good-quality bought one. The secret to forming the quite sloppy mixture is wet hands - honest it works.

Ingredients

For the Thai fish cakes

For the dip

  • 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tbsp clear honey
  • ½ lime, juice only
  • 1 tbsp Thai fish sauce
  • 100g/3½oz cucumber, skinned, cored and diced
  • 50g/1¾oz carrot, finely diced
  • 1 shallot, finely diced
  • 2 birds’-eye chillies, seeds removed (if liked), sliced thinly

Method

  1. For the fish cakes, place the fish, fish sauce, red curry paste, lime leaf, galangal, lemongrass, coriander root, egg, palm sugar, beans, and lime juice in a food processor and blend to a paste. Alternatively this can be done in a pestle and mortar – pound the ingredients to a jelly-like paste.

  2. Remove and, with damp hands, take a piece about the size of a walnut. Roll it into a ball and then flatten it to a thin disc. Lay on a floured plate. Repeat until all the mixture has been used. Refrigerate until ready to cook.

  3. For the dip, beat together the vinegar, honey, two tablespoons of water, the lime juice and fish sauce. Taste and adjust the honey and lime juice to get it sweeter or sourer, however you want it. Add the cucumber, carrot, shallot and chilli. Leave for 30 minutes to an hour for the flavours to develop.

  4. Heat the groundnut oil in a frying pan and cook the fish cakes until golden-brown all over – this should take a couple of minutes on either side.

Recipe tips

You can use halibut, sea bass, pollock or coley depending on your budget.