Friday, 21 February 2025
Chef Angela has a great recipe for Thai Fish Cakes, Wine Expert Nigel has paired it with a Viognier. Full details below:
THAI FISH CAKES
🍷 Here's the wine pairing 🍷
Morrisons Viognier (£9.50) is a delightful white wine that has a perfect balance of floral aromas, ripe fruit flavours, and refreshing acidity. As part of Morrisons' ‘Then Best’ range, this Viognier showcases the varietal's signature characteristics at an accessible price point, making it a favourite among wine enthusiasts and casual drinkers alike.
❗️ Here's the recipe ❗️
500g skinless white fish fillets, such as hake, whiting, or pollack or you could Salmon
200 peeled raw prawns deveined and roughly chopped
1 tablespoon Thai red curry paste
finely grated zest of 1 lime and juice
2inch piece ginger minced
I stick lemon grass
4 lime kaffir leaves
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 teaspoon palm sugar
Large hand full coriander
handful of panko bread crumbs
2-3 tbs of plain flour
100ml oil for frying
📍First chop the prawns and the white fish or salmon and add to the food processor to blend to a sticky paste but don’t over process.
📍Peal the lemon grass and finely chop then add to a spice grinder with the lime leaves shrimp paste fish sauce palm sugar and the lime juice & zest. Blend to a smooth consistency add some water if it’s too thick.
📍Add this and the red curry paste to the fish and prawns. Then finely chop the coriander add to the fish with the bread crumbs and blend all together till you have a nice thick mixture.
📍Shape this into round balls and gently flatten to form a Patti and dip into the all purpose flour covering all over shake off the excess flour.
📍To cook heat the oil in a frying pan add each Patti and fry gently turning over a few times until golden brown.
Serve on a large warm plate with some lime wedges and a few coriander leaves and the dipping sauce in small bowls.
📍For the dipping sauce
30g garlic cloves
2 red bird's eye chillies, thinly sliced 25g ginger, grated ½ tsp shrimp paste 30g palm sugar Juice of 1 lime 2tsp tamarind water
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbs mirin
📍To make this simple sauce:
Crush the garlic into a bowl add the grated ginger and all the other ingredients and blend till everything is combined.