POLOKWANE – Prepare these fishcakes using lightly smoked snoek or even leftover snoek from the braai.
The flavour of this uniquely South African fish is unrivaled.
This recipe by What’s for Dinner brings this unique flavour to delicious fishcakes.
Ingredients
- 600g lightly smoked snoek
- sunflower oil
- lemon juice
- salt and pepper
- 3 potatoes (350 g), peeled, boiled and mashed
- 1 x KNORR Naturally Tasty Tuna Napolitana
- ½ bunch spring onions, chopped
- 7.5 ml lemon juice
- 1 cup cake flour
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 cup breadcrumbs
- 30ml sunflower oil (for frying)
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Place snoek into an ovenproof tray, drizzle with a little oil and lemon juice and season with salt and freshly cracked black pepper.
- Bake in the oven for 10 -15 minutes or until cooked.
- Once cooked carefully remove the bones and flake the flesh.
- Mix the mashed potato, snoek flesh, contents of the sachet of Knorr Naturally Tasty Tuna Napolitana, spring onion and lemon juice.
- Shape into fishcakes then dip into flour then egg then breadcrumbs.
- Heat the oil in a pan and lightly fry the fishcakes until golden brown then transfer to an ovenproof tray and bake in the oven for 10 minutes at 180°C to heat through.
