The best fish to cook fish cakes are fish such as cod, pike perch, salmon or pike. Sometimes housewives avoid making pike cutlets, because they consider it a little dry and bony fish. However, with the right approach, pike fish cakes are very juicy and tender.
Of course, pike is a fish that has a large number of bones, so you will have to work as hard as possible to remove the largest bones, small ones can be left: they are fine to grind in a meat grinder.
In order to cook pike fish cakes, you need about an hour. Keep in mind that such cutlets will be completely non-nutritious: 100 grams of cutlets contain about 103 kilocalories.
You will need the following ingredients:
- pike - 1 pc. (2 kg);
- milk - 300 ml;
- onions - 1 pc.;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- loaf - 250 g;
- bread crumbs;
- vegetable oil - for frying;
- butter - 50 g;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Take a white loaf, cut it into large pieces and dip in a bowl of milk. Now you can start cutting and cleaning the pike. Remember that any fish is easier to clean if you first boil it with hot water: then the scales come off much better.
Peel your pike, then remove the head and tail, make a long cut along the ridge to separate the meat from the skeleton. The largest bones can be removed with tweezers. The pike fillet is ready. Now you need to prepare minced meat from it. To do this, you need a meat grinder.
Peel the onions and pass them together with the fish fillets through a meat grinder. Squeeze the loaf, remove the crusts and add to the minced meat for cutlets, into which you want to break the chicken eggs. The number of chicken eggs will directly depend on the thickness of the minced meat.
Do not forget to add salt and spices. Knead the minced meat for cutlets with your hands, remembering to dip your hands in water each time. Form small patties. Since pike is a fish that has lean meat, you can add butter to the patties. Add a small piece of butter, one cubic centimeter in size to each cutlet.
Then bread the pike cutlets in breadcrumbs and fry in a frying pan in a little vegetable oil until golden brown.
Now the fried pike fish cakes can be placed in a deep baking sheet, in which a little water should be poured, and sent to the oven preheated at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes. During this time, the cutlets will cook and dry from the water.
Your pike fish cakes are ready to serve.
