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#WFD – Fishcakes and chips

Serve Fishcakes with Potato chips and a fresh salad.

POLOKWANE – Fish and chips is one of the most popular combinations in the culinary world and can be a great meal for lunch or for dinner.

Did you know: Fish and chips first appeared in the 1860s; by 1910 there were more than 25,000 fish and chip shops across the UK, and by the 1930s there were over 35,000.

Ingredients

  1. 400g potatoes, peeled and cubed
  2. 1 handful green beans, boiled and chopped
  3. 1 tin pilchards in tomato sauce, deboned and flaked (425 g)
  4. ½ onion, grated
  5. 1 x KNORR Creamy Garlic and Herb Potato Bake
  6. 15 ml
  7. lemon juice
  8. 1 egg
  9. flour (for dusting)
  10. cooking oil (for frying)
  11. 4 medium potatoes, peeled and sliced
  12. cooking oil
  13. Aromat

Method

  1. To prepare the fishcakes, boil potatoes and green beans until tender then drain and mash potatoes.
  2. In a bowl combine the flaked pilchards (no sauce), mashed potatoes, chopped green beans, grated onion, contents of the sachet of KNORR Garlic and Herb Potato Bake, lemon juice and egg.
  3. Shape into patties then dust with flour.
  4. Heat oil in a pan and fry the fishcakes on both sides until golden brown, remove and drain on paper towel.
  5. To prepare the potato chips, add oil to a deep frying pan.
  6. Heat oil until hot, add potato chips and fry until light golden in colour.
  7. Remove chips from oil and drain on paper towel then season with KNORR Aromat.
  8. Serve Fishcakes with Potato chips and a fresh salad.

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Raeesa Sempe

Raeesa Sempe is a Caxton Award-winning Digital Editor with nine years’ experience in the industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand and started her journey as a community journalist for the Polokwane Review in 2015. She then became the online journalist for the Review in 2016 where she excelled in solidifying the Review’s digital footprint through Facebook lives, content creation and marketing campaigns. Raeesa then moved on to become the News Editor of the Bonus Review in 2019 and scooped up the Editorial Employee of the Year award in the same year. She is the current Digital Editor of the Polokwane Review-Observer, a position she takes pride in. Raeesa is married with one child and enjoys spending time with friends, listening to music and baking – when she has the time. “I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon." – Tom Stoppard

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